The big article on data centers in the New Yorker is pretty good, which I wasn’t expecting given the reaction on X. Lots of good and bad: and covering both bubble & non-bubble arguments. It also featured the best version of “I spoke to a local farmer about a data center”
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Inside the Data Centers That Train A.I. and Drain the Electrical Grid newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

Inside the Data Centers That Train A.I. and Drain the Electrical Grid

A data center, which can use as much electricity as Philadelphia, is the new American factory, creating the future and propping up the economy. How long can this last?

newyorker.com
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I enjoyed the firsthand reporting, but still has an off by at least OOM comparison to Microwave, and makes misleading comparisons but doesn’t contain estimates for data centers climate impact such as this one from @EpochAIResearch
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The “92 Philadelphias” quote is also somewhat misleading. It sounds like almost doubling the population of the U.S. 92 GW is a lot but it’s ~7% of US grid capacity and less than half of what China added in renewables in just 5 months theguardian.com/world/2025/j…

China breaks more records with surge in solar and wind power

Between January and May, China added 198 GW of solar and 46 GW of wind, enough to generate as much electricity as Indonesia or Turkey

theguardian.com
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The article also slanders non-commutative algebra.
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Replying to @boazbaraktcs @emollick @EpochAIResearch
from the perspective of a matrix itself, matrix multiplication is very natural and beautiful

Nov 4, 2025 · 2:39 PM UTC