by Isaac Cubillos | Jun 5, 2026 | AI
For a few weeks, Hill County, Texas became a folk hero. Residents packed meetings. Activists celebrated. A Texas county had done what communities across the country have been trying to do: Put the brakes on the AI land rush. Then the lawyers arrived. On Thursday (June...
by Isaac Cubillos | Jun 4, 2026 | AI
Something happened in California last Tuesday that should have every data center developer, utility executive, politician, and AI evangelist paying attention. The voters of Monterey Park didn’t just reject a proposed data center. They banned them. Not...
by Isaac Cubillos | May 30, 2026 | AI
Every war produces rumors. The digital war over data centers is no different. Lately, I’ve been seeing social media posts claiming the National Defense Authorization Act—the NDAA—is some kind of silver bullet that can stop data centers because they supposedly...
by Isaac Cubillos | May 30, 2026 | AI
Back in 2024, some very smart people at Epoch AI sat down and tried to figure out what would stop artificial intelligence from growing. They looked at power generation. They looked at semiconductor factories. They looked at the number of advanced computer chips the...
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...
