by Isaac Cubillos | Oct 20, 2026 | Data Centers
Imperial Valley’s controversial AI project has already produced lawsuits over water rights and environmental review. Now a federal civil rights case raises another question: What happened to a water agreement the city said it was preparing? The City of Imperial,...
by Isaac Cubillos | Oct 17, 2026 | Journal
Washington has discovered a remarkable new approach to foreign policy: Fight one country, do business with its military partner, and hope nobody notices the connection. An editor once told me I connect dots. I always figured that was the job. Trouble is, sometimes the...
by Isaac Cubillos | Oct 9, 2026 | Journal
Twenty-six years after I boarded the USS Abraham Lincoln with a cameraman, I watched her return to San Diego. Then something appeared in the harbor that took me back another 57 years. Some things about San Diego never leave you. The smell of salt water. The morning...
by Isaac Cubillos | Oct 6, 2026 | Journal
President Donald Trump said something the other day that caused an uproar in California. Talking about Iran and the price of war, Trump said: “They can take out a city. Let ’em take out Los Angeles. Let ’em take out San Diego.” San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria fired back....
by Isaac Cubillos | Oct 5, 2026 | Data Centers
Two seemingly ordinary stories — a bartender helping a customer set up his first smartphone and a neighborhood dive bar increasingly connected to the digital world — reveal something much larger about America’s demand for data centers. Smartphones, streaming music,...
