Who Owns Your AI?
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE · DATA CENTERS
August 19, 2026
The article examines the tension
between centralized creation and
decentralized use of AI, questioning…
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We’re Solving the Wrong
Energy Problem
ENERGY POLICY · RENEWABLE ENERGY · ELECTRIC GRID
August 19, 2026
Declining costs of solar panels and
batteries challenge traditional grid
design, highlighting the value of
flexible demand and integrated
energy.
About a decade ago, I started a
company building off-grid solar
systems. We combined solar panels…
The Mainframes of 2030?
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE · DATA CENTERS
August 12, 2026
OpenAI plans a 3.2-gigawatt data
center in Georgia by 2032, raising
questions about future AI computing…
Who Got The Money?
WEALTH INEQUALITY · LABOR SHARE
August 11, 2026
Labor’s share of U.S. economic
output has fallen to its lowest
since 1947, while wealth…
The AI Layoff Trap
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE · CUSTOMER SERVICE
August 4, 2026
Companies deploying AI in customer
service face a choice: cut staff for
savings or retrain workers for
higher-value roles, as.
The Job You Can’t Afford To
Quit
HEALTH INSURANCE · JOB LOCK · EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
July 30, 2026
Millions of American workers remain
in jobs they dislike due to reliance
on employer-sponsored health
insurance, limiting retirement and
career.
Jacob McDonald is 47 years old,
works as a network engineer in
Dallas and has been thinking about…
It’s Not the Economy, Stupid.
It’s Who Owns the Future.
LOCAL · MUNICIPAL FINANCE · HOUSING
July 27, 2026
Rising wealth inequality stems from
asset ownership disparities, with AI
poised to deepen divides unless tax
and ownership reforms address.
Our house in Portsmouth is worth far
more than we paid for it in 2008.
We have maintained it, replaced
things that wore out and made…
The Cold Blob
LOCAL · ECONOMY · REGIONAL
July 4, 2026
A cooling patch in the North
Atlantic signals a weakening ocean
circulation, raising sea levels and…
Europe Needs AI. Canada Has
the Power.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE · SOVEREIGNTY
July 1, 2026
Europe seeks AI independence amid
U.S. export controls, while Canada
offers clean power and
infrastructure for sovereign AI
compute capacity.
The lesson of the last month is not
that America will stop building the
best artificial intelligence. It is…
