by Isaac Cubillos | Sep 13, 2026 | Data Centers
My recent excursion into putting data centers in space brought an interesting fellow into my orbit. His name is Shubber Ali. He has been involved with the space industry since the 1990s, when he managed KPMG’s space consulting practice. For nearly 20 years, off...
by Isaac Cubillos | Sep 12, 2026 | Data Centers
Someone said something recently that I have heard more than once as communities begin pushing back against the enormous appetite of artificial intelligence for electricity, water and land: Why don’t we just put the data centers in space? I chuckled. Well, sure....
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...
