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The Great Refusal

The Great Refusal

In six weeks, 300+ data center bills have been filed across 30+ states. Six states have moratorium proposals. Local governments in 14 states have already hit pause. The industry frames this as a PR problem. It is an architecture problem.

When in Doubt, Go Up: Orbital Data Centers and the Limits of Architectural Imagination

When in Doubt, Go Up: Orbital Data Centers and the Limits of Architectural Imagination

Two weeks ago, a company filed paperwork with the FCC requesting permission to launch up to one million satellites into low Earth orbit. Not communication satellites. Not GPS. Data center satellites. Solar-powered, laser-linked orbital compute nodes, designed to run AI inference workloads from space. The filing included the phrase "