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Infrastructure

What America is trying to build, and what is stopping it.

3Stories
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