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,...
by Isaac Cubillos | Oct 5, 2026 | Journal
I learned something about words a long time ago. When you see the word “could” in a news story, add two words to it: Or not. The same goes for “may.” May happen. May not. That isn’t a lesson in grammar. It’s a lesson in journalism. CBS News gave us a fine...
by Isaac Cubillos | Oct 2, 2026 | Journal
Solar panel left that powered a Flock camera at 25th and Orange Ave. in Fort Pierce, Fla. Well, this is comforting. St. Lucie County went looking for license-plate cameras along its roads and discovered something you generally hope your government already knows: There...
by Isaac Cubillos | Oct 1, 2026 | Data Centers
There are times when Washington solves a problem nobody knew we had. This week it was artificial intelligence. Apparently, AI needed a better name. President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring that the executive branch will henceforth call Artificial...
by Isaac Cubillos | Sep 25, 2026 | Data Centers
There is an old American habit that goes something like this: If somebody says the Russians are ahead, build a missile. If somebody says the Chinese are ahead, build a data center. Preferably one the size of Rhode Island. We are now spending astonishing sums of money...
