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Opposition is bipartisan

Two things can be true at once. Foreign entities have seeded the opposition to data center growth in the United States. China, in particular, through its control of TikTok and other influence outlets, has relentlessly worked to stop the American AI advantage against China. Also, at this point, much of the opposition is organic, bipartisan and growing. Americans are deeply opposed to data centers. They are wrong and shortsighted, but my view is the minority view. We should start by understanding the problem. Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic and Sam Altman, the proprietor of ...

Trump declares war on Canada

Not exactly a war, but a trade war — which will impose huge costs on both American consumers and on Canada. As I said, Trump is now completely and utterly out of his mind. The very idea of a trade war with Canada — our neighbor, our ally, our closest friend, a nation that’s peaceful and whose people have a reputation for kindness — is absurd. But Trump is doing it anyway. He’s imposing a 50% tariff on goods coming from Canada — which, remember, is an import tax paid by you and me. The tariffs account for $20 billion of the $382 billion worth of products Americans ...

El-Sayed still loves man who said US deserved 9/11

Abdul El-Sayed has a problem. Well, he actually has a bunch of problems, including his history of rampant radicalism, his questionable group of friends and family,and the ever-confusing question of whether he was ever an actual doctor. But his main problem as he circles one of Michigan’s seats in the U.S. Senate like a left-wing vulture? Hasan Piker. Now, Hasan Piker is a chunk of human waste wrapped in Prada floating across the bottom of the barrel that is our media ecosystem. The Democratic Party — and particularly the progressive wing — has embraced him like teenage fans ...

Ohio children benefited from Dolly Parton’s philanthropy

Plenty of the stories shared by those remembering Dolly Parton in the wake of her passing Tuesday revolved not around music, movies or even a theme park, but around books. Because of Parton and her Imagination Library, hundreds of millions of books have been sent out to children and their families. It was a project close to Parton’s heart, and one she expanded outside her beloved Tennessee to Ohio back in 2019. First lady Fran DeWine had a lot to do with that step for the organization. “Her devotion to children and literacy is unparalleled. Because of Dolly, millions of children ...

Has Trump overplayed his hand?

Three moves in the last week have exposed the limits of Donald Trump’s economic bullying. The U.S. slapped 50% tariffs on another $20bn of Canadian goods – then threatened the same rate on the cars, trucks, parts and steel that America Inc depends on. On Monday, the Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, menaced Iran’s trading partners with exclusion from the U.S. financial network, hoping that coercion can deliver what months of war have not. And as the costs of war, tariffs and pro-billionaire tax cuts helped send U.S. bond yields higher, the Treasury stepped in to tame long-term ...

What if factories had gotten the data center treatment?

When American manufacturing was truly coming into its own in the early 20th century, workers sometimes labored 12-hour days seven days a week and risked life and limb working near dangerous machinery, while factories blackened the skies of American cities. Yet some of the same people who insist that we need to reindustrialize to return to a version of those halcyon days can’t bear the thought of the construction of industrial-scale computing facilities. They complain that data centers are unsightly and use lots of energy and water. But what do they think major factories are like? ...