by Isaac Cubillos | May 29, 2026 | AI
These days, everybody has an opinion about data centers. They’re too big. They’re too loud. They use too much water. They use too much electricity. They’re changing neighborhoods, farmland and communities that never expected to become part of the...
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
Out in Hill County, Texas, the county commissioners finally did something a lot of rural America has been talking about quietly over coffee counters and feed stores. They hit the brakes. Hill County, on May 12, approved a temporary moratorium on new data center...
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...
