Technology Desk
Infrastructure, industry, and the machinery behind digital life.
Technology • Investigation
AI data centers have moved from cloud strategy into utility-bill math. A new Press analysis of EIA electricity data tracks the fight over megawatts, water, local consent, and who pays when private compute demand lands on public grids.
Technology • Investigation
The hard part is no longer whether small aircraft can fly useful missions. It is whether law, air traffic systems, police oversight, war planning and supply chains can see and govern the low-altitude sky now filling up.
Technology • Analysis
Grid batteries, electric cars, lithium supply chains, virtual power plants, and interconnection queues are turning storage from a gadget story into the shock absorber of the power system.
Technology • Report
The Pentagon's classified-network AI agreements are not a chatbot story. They are the moment frontier models, cloud infrastructure, and defense power began moving into the same secured room — with Anthropic's empty chair revealing the fight over who controls the guardrails.
Technology • Analysis
Elon Musk says OpenAI betrayed its nonprofit mission. OpenAI says Musk wanted control and lost. The court battle is really about whether the most powerful AI company in the world can still claim to serve humanity after becoming one of the richest corporate prizes in technology.
Technology • Report
Behind the chatbot boom is a slower race over transformers, substations, fabs, and the people who know how to build them.