The world, at least my world, seems abuzz with controversy over the build-out of data centers to support our thirst for artificial intelligence (AI). The controversy stems from the tension between the benefits of AI to the entities that profit from the technology and the impacts of data centers on the environment, energy consumption, and … More Data Centers: Monuments to a Technological Moment?
Why Disruption Now Works—and What That Says About Us The Present Moment The United States is not merely polarized; it is epistemically fractured. Shared assumptions about truth, legitimacy, and institutional restraint—once treated as background conditions of civic life—are now openly contested. What feels new is not disagreement, but the normalization of bad faith as a … More When Norms No Longer Bind
The advancement in Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities continues its expansion at a breath-taking rate, but it is facing two constraints. One is the immense power data centers require to run the computers that process the AI algorithms and the other is speed at which the algorithms can be executed. Seismic changes are on the horizon … More AI, Quantum Computing, and Fusion – the new Holy Trinity?
