The problem isn't Meta. The problem isn't data centers. The problem isn't even artificial intelligence. The problem is when the people elected to represent the public start keeping secrets from the public. That's where this story begins. Not in Silicon Valley. Not in...

The fight over data centers isn't really about data centers. It's about the largest infrastructure buildout America has seen since World War II. Folks, this ain't about the data center building. That's like saying World War II was about a shipyard. The shipyard...

For a few weeks, Hill County, Texas became a folk hero. Residents packed meetings. Activists celebrated. A Texas county had done what communities across the country have been trying to do: Put the brakes on the AI land rush. Then the lawyers arrived. On Thursday (June...

Something happened in California last Tuesday that should have every data center developer, utility executive, politician, and AI evangelist paying attention. The voters of Monterey Park didn't just reject a proposed data center. They banned them. Not temporarily. Not...

Every war produces rumors. The digital war over data centers is no different. Lately, I've been seeing social media posts claiming the National Defense Authorization Act—the NDAA—is some kind of silver bullet that can stop data centers because they supposedly contain...

Back in 2024, some very smart people at Epoch AI sat down and tried to figure out what would stop artificial intelligence from growing. They looked at power generation. They looked at semiconductor factories. They looked at the number of advanced computer chips the...

These days, everybody has an opinion about data centers. They're too big. They're too loud. They use too much water. They use too much electricity. They're changing neighborhoods, farmland and communities that never expected to become part of the digital economy....

By May 2026, the rumor had spread from Facebook groups to coffee shops to local town halls: the lights around Lake Tahoe might someday flicker so giant AI data centers could stay humming. The story sounded tailor-made for the times — families near one of America’s...

There was a time when zoning meetings were about whether somebody wanted to put up a Dollar General next to a church softball field. Maybe a new subdivision. Maybe a truck stop off the interstate. Folks would grumble, somebody would wave a stack of papers, and...

UPDATE (June 5, 2026): Hill County commissioners rescind the moratorium. UPDATE (May 28, 2026): A data center developer has filed a $100 million federal lawsuit against Hill County, Texas, challenging a moratorium that blocks new data center projects. According to the...

But That Would Have Ruined the Internet’s Favorite Data Center Horror Story A Navajo woman looks into the camera and says: “There is no running water.” And boom. That’s the clip. That’s the emotional payload. That’s the part people remember. Not the zoning notes. Not...

Tucker Carlson is doing what good populists have always done: pointing at something enormous, ugly, expensive, and elite-driven and asking ordinary people about data centers, “What exactly are you getting out of this deal?" Fair question. But the problem with his...

There was a time when the scariest thing most Americans thought a computer could do was crash and take your term paper with it. Now the people building artificial intelligence are using phrases like “the foothills of the singularity,” and half the country is nodding...