by Isaac Cubillos | Oct 2, 2026 | Journal
Solar panel left that powered a Flock camera at 25th and Orange Ave. in Fort Pierce, Fla. Well, this is comforting. St. Lucie County went looking for license-plate cameras along its roads and discovered something you generally hope your government already knows: There...
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 22, 2026 | Journal
Texas Was Never Too Small. The Map Was. I was born a few blocks from the Alamo, my family has been in San Antonio since the 1700s, and somewhere along the way I majored in American history and later became an investigative reporter. So when an old map of Texas...
