I was sitting around the Crosby family compound in mid-August when the power went out. Power outages are always disruptive—you never realize how many clocks you own until you have to reset them—but they are particularly distressing when it’s summer in Texas.
Over the last five years, the U.S. Department of Energy and the largest electrical utilities across the country have been working continuously to develop workable scenarios for meeting the future electrical power demand of our data centers.
Wild fires ravage communities across 15 states, 10 inches of rain fall in a few hours, drought lays waste to vast areas of the country, tornado season starts a month early, the most named storms strike in the month of June with Tropical Storm Debby
As I write this it is early July, as we are about to move into the dog days of summer, anticipating the usual issues that seem to appear when cooling systems are pushed to their limits—and sometimes beyond.
Recognize the lyric from Kenny Rogers’s “The Gambler?” In it, Rogers sings about a gambler who shares a message about life with a fellow traveler. The gambler’s advice?
As a whole, society tends to treat employment changes like an infection. The closer you are to it the more likely you are to be affected. Yet change is not only inevitable, change is growth. Those who don’t grow, well, Darwinism takes its course.