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Fido – Eating my own Dog Food
I struggle to explain Fido because it is multiple things at once. At one level, it is plumbing: infrastructure for creating and distributing localized, personalized content. But plumbing is hard to sell. Nobody gets excited about pipes until water comes out of the faucet. That’s why I’ve realized Fido cannot just be explained as a…
The Data Center That Heats the City
Why the AI Revolution Is Really an Energy Revolution Imagine a metal box about the size of a carry-on suitcase. Inside, processors perform trillions of calculations every second—powering artificial intelligence, discovering new drugs, designing aircraft, optimizing supply chains, and answering millions of questions. That same box also produces roughly as much continuous heat as a…
How a Republican governor turned California deep blue, and why Trump is about to do the same nationally.
Pete Wilson and the Republicans won the 1994 elections on the backs of Hispanic immigrants, and turned California from a Republican-leaning state into a Democratic stronghold. And now Trump is about to do the same nationally. How can I say this? In 1994, California voters approved Proposition 187 by a decisive 59–41% margin. The measure…