by Isaac Cubillos | Oct 29, 2026 | Data Centers, Energy
Silicon Valley figured out how to build its own power plants. Now it’s discovering that you can’t fix a broken turbine with a software update. Back in June, I wrote that folks were looking at the wrong thing when they talked about data centers. Everybody...
by Isaac Cubillos | Oct 28, 2026 | Brown Eyes, Clear Truth
The last time I saw Dolores Huerta, she was standing on an outdoor stage in San Diego, speaking to a few hundred people about immigration and the Republican Party. It was August 1996, and I was covering the Republican National Convention for La Prensa San Diego. The...
by Isaac Cubillos | Oct 28, 2026 | Data Centers
The Chinese are coming! The Chinese are coming! And apparently, they’re coming to a zoning board meeting near you. According to some enthusiastic defenders of America’s artificial intelligence industry, anybody complaining about a data center’s...
by Isaac Cubillos | Oct 26, 2026 | Brown Eyes, Clear Truth, Data Centers
I’ve seen this neighborhood before. Not just in Denver, but in San Diego, where we called it Barrio Logan. Railroad tracks. Abandoned industrial buildings. A few businesses trying to hang on. Freeways cutting through neighborhoods where working people raised...
by Isaac Cubillos | Oct 26, 2026 | Data Centers, Journal
Newton’s apple, David Hume, Yann LeCun and the limits of machine intelligence Isaac Newton supposedly watched an apple fall from a tree and began thinking about gravity. Whether the story happened exactly that way is open to debate. Newton himself recalled...
