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 (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 lawsuit, the moratorium violates Texas law and should never have been...

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...

There was a time in America when “all you can eat” meant exactly that. You paid your $6.99 at Sizzler, loosened your belt two notches, and marched back for another helping of fried shrimp nobody could quite identify. The business model worked because most folks tapped...

Most people think a data center gets built like this: Google buys some land, pours concrete, installs servers, and starts running AI. Simple. Except that’s usually not what happens at all. Modern AI data centers are more like giant industrial ecosystems involving...

Last year, I watched a documentary about artificial intelligence and breast cancer. Now, before half the internet starts screaming either “machines will save humanity” or “the robots are taking over,” let me explain what actually caught my attention. It wasn’t flashy....