Decoding AI: Past, Present, and Future
Somewhere in the high desert of Texas, a parcel of land the size of a small town is being transformed into something that would have seemed like science fiction a decade ago: a single AI datacenter complex drawing more electricity than the entire city of Seattle. This isn’t a distant proposal. Permitted, funded, and actively…
Somewhere in the American Southwest, there is a data center built in the last three years that will be functionally obsolete before its mortgage is paid off. Not because it will stop working — the concrete and steel will be fine — but because the hardware it was designed to cool and power has already…
The longest undersea power cable ever built is being laid between Egypt and Saudi Arabia—not to power a city, but a single data center cluster near Riyadh. Stretching 1,300 kilometers across the Red Sea, the 1.5-gigawatt link is designed to feed a facility so massive it will eventually consume more electricity than all of Iceland.…