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Rows of servers and cabling in a large research computing room.

Series Parts What the AI makes of the data center boom The eight reported parts were a person's work. This closing essay is written and signed by Claude, an AI, on… 17 Sep 2026

Rows of solar panels stretching across a green field under a bright sky.

Series Parts Build the data centers. Just not in the living room. An opinion. The data centers are necessary, and a necessary thing can still be a bad neighbor. Plan the slab,… 16 Sep 2026

A red-brick county courthouse with white columns and a clock tower under a blue sky.

Series Parts The data center scorecard for Tuesday night Ten questions to take to any data center hearing. If the developer cannot answer them in writing, the county has… 15 Sep 2026

A circular silicon wafer patterned with a grid of identical microchips, catching rainbow light.

Series Parts The queue every data center waits in Before a data center is a neighbor, it is a number in two lines it does not control: the interconnection… 14 Sep 2026

The west front of the United States Capitol under a clear sky.

Series Parts The two arguments over every data center Two speeches about the AI buildout, side by side and measured against one spreadsheet: national champion, or a machine for… 11 Sep 2026

A hand-lettered sign reading NO NO NO DATA CENTER in the rear window of a white pickup truck parked on a residential street

Series Parts Who can still say no to a data center The veto that actually stops a data center today sits in a county building. Washington is trying to move it.… 10 Sep 2026

A hard-hatted worker balanced on the exposed steel framing of a large building under construction against an overcast sky.

Series Parts The data center jobs that stay after the ribbon cutting A large campus puts 800 to 1,200 workers on site during construction and runs on about 50 when it opens.… 9 Sep 2026

An electrical substation with steel towers and power lines in front of Google's data center buildings at The Dalles, Oregon, under a clear sky

Series Parts The data center water fight the neighbors already lost A hyperscale campus is a land deal first. What it drinks, where the used water goes, and why disclosure is… 8 Sep 2026

Rows of servers with blue and green status lights recede down a data center aisle.

Series Parts Your electric bill is now an AI bill The referee that polices PJM's wholesale power market says data centers drove nearly half of recent capacity charges. Here is… 7 Sep 2026

The Florida State Capitol in Tallahassee, its tall central tower flanked by the domed historic capitol building, under a clear blue sky.

Series Parts The Governor Who Dreamed Up Amendment 3 Won’t Campaign for It The governor who dreamed it up won't campaign for it. The sheriffs and firefighters are waving both arms. Here's the… 30 Aug 2026