by Isaac Cubillos | Sep 10, 2026 | Data Centers
Jacob Coxon managed to scare the hell out of a lot of people this week. Coxon isn’t some guy sitting in his basement asking ChatGPT whether the machines are coming for him. He worked on artificial intelligence at OpenAI and Anthropic, two companies at the front...
by Isaac Cubillos | Sep 10, 2026 | Data Centers
Rendering of the proposed $10 billion Imperial Valley Computer Manufactoring data center near Imperial, Ca. A Superior Court judge has overturned the county approvals for the project and ordered the development to undergo environmental review as a whole. There is a...
by Isaac Cubillos | Sep 2, 2026 | Data Centers, Journal
The light comes through one window at Bogeys and Stogeys, and that’s where I sit. I don’t smoke. This is not necessarily an advantage at Bogeys. Cigarettes. Cigars. Smoke hanging in the darker reaches of the room and wandering through the shaft of Florida...
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...
by Isaac Cubillos | Jul 22, 2026 | Data Centers
Back when I taught programming, I always began with the same lesson. “The computer is dumb.” It wasn’t an insult. It was a warning. A computer doesn’t think. It doesn’t improvise. It doesn’t know what you meant. It only does what...
by Isaac Cubillos | Jul 14, 2026 | Data Centers
There’s an old saying that when the engineers start worrying about the bridge, it’s probably time for everyone else to stop arguing about the paint color. That may be where we are with artificial intelligence. For the past few years, the AI conversation...
