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A substation outside Loudoun County, Virginia
Science

The Grid Can’t Wait

Data centers now request more power in a single county than Phoenix used in 2015. Inside the summer that forced fourteen states to choose between artificial intelligence and air conditioning.

Dana Whitfield · 3 min
Fiber optic cable spool on a rural roadside
Business

The Last Mile

Rural broadband got $42 billion and a deadline. Four years on, the money has moved and the fiber has not. A report from three counties that were promised the same thing twice.

Priya Raghunathan · 2 min
An open-plan office at night
Technology

Agents at the office door

Enterprise software vendors spent a year shipping autonomous agents. Their customers spent a year building approval queues to slow them down.

Marcus Oyelaran · 1 min
Container ship at sea
World

The shipping lane that moved

Insurance rates redrew a trade route that had not changed since the canal opened. The consequences arrive in October.

Priya Raghunathan · 1 min