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Nvidia Made $62.3 Billion in a Single Quarter Selling Chips for Data Centers. Virginia, Home to More of Them Than Anywhere on Earth, Just Considered 61 Bills to Restrict Them.
Loudoun County, Virginia is "Data Center Alley" -- the highest concentration of data centers on the planet. In 2026, the same state ran 61 separate data-center bills through its legislature in a single session, fifteen of which passed.
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Einstein's Theory Was Right in 1915. Proving It Took an Eclipse. AI's Version of the Same Wait Took Twenty-Six Years.
Einstein published general relativity in 1915 and predicted starlight would visibly bend near the sun -- a claim nothing on Earth could t...
The Government Gave Four Companies Until July 4, 2026 to Get a Nuclear Reactor Critical. All Four Made It — Because Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta Already Needed the Power.
The Department of Energy gave four companies until July 4, 2026 to get a nuclear microreactor to criticality. All four made it -- because...
IBM Just Showed Off a Chip That Runs Two Instruction Sets at Once. The Company Is 115 Years Old. Most Companies That Old Are Dead.
IBM's new dual-ISA mainframe chip is the same trick it's pulled for 115 years. Sears is the same age and it's dead. The difference isn't ...
One of the World's Densest Data Center Campuses Couldn't Run a Real AI Cluster. The Reason Fits in Two Numbers: 22 and 120.
A firsthand account from inside NTT's Ashburn, Virginia facility -- Data Center Alley's biggest concentration of colocation space -- expl...
Broadcom, AMD, Intel, and Micron Are All Posting Record AI Numbers Right Now. None of Them Are Actually Racing Each Other.
OpenAI's new inference chip just beat Nvidia on the test that matters most to OpenAI. That isn't a story about Nvidia losing -- it's a si...
Loudoun County Caps Industrial Noise at 55 Decibels at the Property Line. A Data Center's Cooling Equipment Runs at 75 to 85 -- and the Houses Were There First.
The lived complaint from residents living behind Data Center Alley's newest facilities isn't displacement -- nobody was forced to move. I...
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