Opponents of artificial intelligence tend to fixate on the same handful of examples.
Creepy images. Political bot farms. Students outsourcing their homework. A slurry of uncanny faces, fake essays, and…
For the past two years, a tidy story has taken hold in electricity policy circles.
Power prices are rising. Data centers are booming. Manufacturing is reshoring. Therefore, the thinking goes,…
The reason electric bills are rising isn’t data centers but years of disinvestment in power.
This piece originally appeared in The Free Press, by Emmett Penney.
Rare is the political…
Rising electricity prices are being pinned on data centers, but demand isn’t what makes power expensive.
This piece originally ran in Reason Magazine.
A simple story has taken hold…