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 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...
by Isaac Cubillos | Sep 25, 2026 | Data Centers
Back in June, I wrote a column called “Folks, This Ain’t About the Data Center Building.” The argument was pretty simple. Everybody was staring at the big windowless building going up outside town. I thought people were looking at the wrong thing. The real story was...
by Isaac Cubillos | Sep 13, 2026 | Data Centers
My recent excursion into putting data centers in space brought an interesting fellow into my orbit. His name is Shubber Ali. He has been involved with the space industry since the 1990s, when he managed KPMG’s space consulting practice. For nearly 20 years, off...
by Isaac Cubillos | Sep 12, 2026 | Data Centers
Someone said something recently that I have heard more than once as communities begin pushing back against the enormous appetite of artificial intelligence for electricity, water and land: Why don’t we just put the data centers in space? I chuckled. Well, sure....
