As tech giants build massive data centers that inflate power bills, voters across the political spectrum are uniting to demand that corporations pay for their own grid strain.
By Imani Sutton ·
Massive AI infrastructure buildouts are driving up utility bills and sparking an unlikely cross-partisan backlash just as the November midterms arrive.
By Imani Sutton ·
Donald Trump signed a nonbinding safety accord with AI labs, but the lack of enforceable metrics makes it a political performance rather than a technical safeguard.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
When the people who built the bomb tell you it’s unstable, you don’t check your campaign calendar. But that is exactly what the U.S. Congress is doing right now.
By Josie Calloway ·
The American state is currently operating under the delusion that speed is a substitute for stability.
By Emilio Quesada ·
The CEOs of Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI have finally admitted the truth: they’ve built a car with no brakes, and they’re terrified of the cliff.
By Imani Sutton ·
We are supposed to weep into our keyboards because the folks who struck the match are suddenly complaining about the heat.
By Maya Ellison ·
It is a genuinely disheartening thing to watch local governance, which should be focused on keeping the small institutions of our lives running smoothly—the library card catalog,…
By Caroline Ashford ·