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AI and the Electricity Grid: A Stress Test Showing the Cracks
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (655+ words) Artificial intelligence just handed America a warning about its electric grid. We should be grateful for it. For 20 years, electricity demand stayed roughly flat. Policymakers pushed utilities toward wind and solar while sidelining coal, natural gas, and nuclear plants, the…...
Data centers are not the problem
1+ week, 2+ day ago (86+ words) Andrew Heaton | 9.4.2026 12:30 PM Andrew Heaton hates the reasons you hate data centers. NEXT: COVID-19 Origins: Lab Leak or Natural Spillover? Andrew Heaton is a producer at Reason. He is the author of, most recently, Tribalism Is Dumb: Where It Came…...
Federalism will save the data centers
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1516+ words) Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week's stories include: When it comes to liberalizing land use regulations to allow more housing to be built, housing advocates have generally settled on a standard maneuver: evolve more…...
There Is No Justification -But Hype- For Current AI Investment
2+ week, 3+ day ago (862+ words) I have previously written some bits about the AI-bubble: I lamented that the much hyped Large Language Models (LLMs), as proffered by OpenAI and Anthropic, are mostly unreliable search engines. There are only a few real use cases for these....
Britain spends more on planning applications than Japan spends on extending high-speed railways through earthquake-prone mountains.
3+ week, 7+ hour ago (416+ words) Britain builds high-speed rail at almost six times the cost of Japan, new IEA analysis finds Every French city with … Continue reading "Britain spends more on planning applications than Japan spends on extending high-speed railways through earthquake-prone mountains." The post…...
Will sky-high Skyline costs ever stop climbing?
3+ week, 4+ day ago (566+ words) Honolulu officials recently received a national innovation award for the safety and technology of the city’s Skyline rail — the country's first driverless rail system — but the recognition coincides with more bad news about the project’s ever-ballooning budget. A Honolulu Civil…...
After Billions Spent and Zero Trains, California’s Rail Boondoggle Nears a Reckoning - The Daily Signal
4+ week, 1+ hour ago (555+ words) California’s high-speed rail boondoggle may finally be running out of money. It’s bad news for Gov. Gavin Newsom, possibly good news for the people of...