July 2024

Transmission Lines and Fiber

There is an unprecedented boom of construction for electric transmission lines. These are the giant towers that are used to carry electricity for long distances. The boom was kick-started in the last few years as transmission lines have been built to support solar farms, wind farms, and some new nuclear power plants. But the boom went into overdrive by the sudden explosion of new data centers being created to support AI. The International Energy Agency predicts that in the U.S.

The Data That Powers A.I. Is Disappearing Fast

For years, the people building powerful artificial intelligence systems have used enormous troves of text, images and videos pulled from the internet to train their models. Now, that data is drying up. Many of the most important web sources used for training A.I.

Weekly Digest

Project 2025: Brendan Carr's Agenda for the FCC

In January 2023, Spencer Chretien—a former Special Assistant to President Donald J.