by Isaac Cubillos | Aug 25, 2026 | Energy
There is an old rule in journalism: when everybody is staring at the shiny thing, look behind it. The shiny thing these days is artificial intelligence. AI apps write. Generators make pictures. Computers create video, write software and answer questions. Wall Street...
by Isaac Cubillos | Aug 24, 2026 | Energy
I didn’t realize it at the time, but I was looking at a water crisis. I was in Colorado in June, driving through the Rockies, looking up at mountains that ought to have been wearing considerably more white. There was snow up there. Just not much of it. I took a...
by Isaac Cubillos | Aug 22, 2026 | Journal
For more than 80 years, the United States has maintained an unusual proposition: The government can pay journalists without owning their journalism. It was never a particularly comfortable arrangement. It wasn’t supposed to be. Voice of America was created...
by Isaac Cubillos | Aug 19, 2026 | Journal
Every once in a while, a chart tells you something Washington has spent several trillion dollars trying not to notice. I was looking at one the other day showing the world’s largest cities from 1950 into the future. Back in 1950, the list looked reassuringly...
by Isaac Cubillos | Aug 2, 2026 | Data Centers
A while back, I wrote that we ought to stop counting data centers and start counting brains. I may have been too generous. Maybe we ought to start by asking who counted the data centers in the first place. There are maps floating around the internet showing more than...
