by Isaac Cubillos | May 27, 2026 | AI
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...
by Isaac Cubillos | May 25, 2026 | AI
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...
by Isaac Cubillos | May 23, 2026 | AI
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...
by Isaac Cubillos | May 22, 2026 | AI
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...
by Isaac Cubillos | May 21, 2026 | AI
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...
