Part Two of the Techstrong investigation into who really pays for America’s data-center boom documents the sequence — preemption statutes, NDAs, code-named projects and incentive packages — that lets the deal get locked in before the public gets to vote.
A Techstrong investigation into the federal lobbying campaign around H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act — 53 filings, 50 organizations, 206 lobbyists, and $42.4 million in quarterly federal lobbying activity around a five-page bill about who pays for America’s data-center boom.
The man who built the rockets now wants Grok to remake Homer, correct Christopher Nolan and restore Helen of Troy’s supposedly proper hair color. Howard Hughes would understand.
Google cannot build its fence around the open web if publishers stop supplying the bricks. A handful of major media companies are considering cutting it off. Every publisher should be prepared to join them.
Every email app promising to tame high-volume inboxes with AI eventually buckled under real load — memory bloat, crashes, daily force-quits. After exhausting the field, one operator found the surprising fix wasn’t a new tool at all, but the one he’d abandoned years earlier, now rebuilt for exactly this problem.
Data centers. Data centers everywhere. For most of the generative […]
Starbucks’ decision to build AI-assisted replacements for enterprise applications rattled software stocks. The larger warning is that AI may be overturning the economics that made “buy, don’t build” enterprise orthodoxy.
Enterprise customers already pay for software. Vendors shouldn’t treat their data as a second form of payment.
Every June, International Women in Engineering Day lands on the […]
As China explores underwater AI data centers and SpaceX looks toward orbital compute, a much bigger story is emerging. The AI revolution may ultimately be defined not by the models we build, but by the unprecedented physical infrastructure required to power them—and by the question of whether infrastructure this consequential should serve a few companies or all mankind.
