BlogFlockJust a year or two ago, their predominance was all but assumed; if anything, the expectation was that they would see expansion along with the platforms they support. Now, all that’s come crashing down spectacularly. They’re the biggest losers this election cycle. Even their most ardent boosters are scratching their…
There’s no question the US midterms elections delivered a blow to Donald Trump. The Democrats took not just the House and Senate back from the Republicans, but won a wave of governor’s races across the…
If you’ve heard anything at all about the midterm elections, you’ve heard at least two things: it’s going to be a ‘blue wave’ in which Democrats are poised for major electoral gains, and everyone involved hates data centers.
We’re all used to hearing about that data center hate now, it’s…
For the last week or two, leading AI startup Anthropic has apparently been shopping a bill around to federal lawmakers “to regulate frontier AI safety and security.” The bill is pretty transparently an effort to address public concerns drummed up by the company’s own former and current staff—and its own…
Among the biggest stories in the tech world of late have been the string of high-profile resignations of workers at the major AI companies. Folks like Jacob Coxon at Anthropic have quit their jobs with splashy warnings that tech firms might build a machine god so powerful it exterminates humanity.…
The day has finally arrived: My new book Hyperscale is now on bookshelves in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and beyond!
It tells the story of the data center buildout the tech industry has…
It’s election season, and most of the national discourse is focused on the midterms and the increasing likelihood that Democrats will take back the House and perhaps even the Senate. But here in California, the eyes of the tech elite are focused on another target: Proposition 40, aka the billionaire…
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I had some big plans for this week, and well, then I got Covid. In the early stages, I’d hoped to still put out a podcast at least, but I was quickly disabused of that aspiration and left more or less out cold in bed for the last…
In just two weeks, my new book Hyperscale will be out in the world!
It’s the first book from a major publisher to chronicle the data center buildout and the backlash to it, while asking…
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