Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) recently signed an executive order placing a one-year moratorium on all new data center developments. As someone from Oswego, New York, a small, historically underinvested Rust Belt community upstate, Hochul’s moratorium ensures that the benefits of the artificial intelligence boom in my hometown are dead on arrival. In addition to New […]

America is having the wrong argument about AI data centers. One side sees windowless industrial giants devouring electricity and water while shifting the infrastructure bill onto families who are already struggling. The other sees the physical foundation of the next scientific revolution and warns that every local delay is a direct gift to Beijing. Both […]

Growing up in Auburn, Alabama, crime never paralyzed me. It was rarely more than intoxicated college students and the occasional shoplifting. But every crime carries widespread costs. I witnessed this firsthand when Tuskegee, a small rural town 20 miles southwest of Auburn, got a Walmart. Despite the exciting news and needed business, soon after the […]

The Fifth Amendment promises “just compensation” when the government takes your land. On June 29, the Supreme Court agreed to decide whether a private pipeline company gets to write its own definition of “just.” The case is Hoffmann v. WBI Energy Transmission, and it started with 12 miles of pipe through McKenzie County, North Dakota. […]