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
UPDATE (June 5, 2026): Hill County commissioners rescind the moratorium. UPDATE (May 28, 2026): A data center developer has filed a $100 million federal lawsuit against Hill County, Texas, challenging a moratorium that blocks new data center projects. According to the...
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...
by Isaac Cubillos | May 21, 2026 | AI
There was a time when the scariest thing most Americans thought a computer could do was crash and take your term paper with it. Now the people building artificial intelligence are using phrases like “the foothills of the singularity,” and half the country is nodding...
by Isaac Cubillos | May 21, 2026 | AI
There was a time in America when “all you can eat” meant exactly that. You paid your $6.99 at Sizzler, loosened your belt two notches, and marched back for another helping of fried shrimp nobody could quite identify. The business model worked because most folks tapped...
