Welcome to the latest edition of Power Play! From now until the midterms, senior writer Molly Taft will be sharing their thoughts every Sunday on this political season’s hottest issue: data centers. We welcome reader comments, and will be answering questions from the comments section in future editions. The post-lunchtime Climate Week panel featuring tech
If you have cursed in the vicinity of your phone while trying to launch a pizza into your pizza oven without inadvertently creating a calzone, chances are even better that Big Internet Brother has targeted you for a sliding pizza peel. If, after dozens of practice launches, you haven’t mastered the art of the traditional
The tech guy uniform is full of basic T-shirts and bad haircuts, so I get why Alexandr Wang’s look at Meta Connect is riling Silicon Valley. If you’re used to the black turtlenecks of Steve Jobs and Elizabeth Holmes, or the white T-shirts of Mark Zuckerberg, sure, Wang’s camo-print deer T-shirt and matching Crocs seem
The sheer scale of the universe strongly suggests Earth isn’t its only life-hosting planet. But do distant worlds harbor the types of advanced spacefaring civilizations depicted in science fiction, or just far simpler microbes? Astrobiologists consider a planet’s age when searching for extraterrestrials. The standard logic implies that older planets had a longer time to
The workday doesn’t end for millions of American workers when they clock out and go home—there are floors to mop, meals to prepare, and kids to tend to. There’s no paycheck for those chores that keep a household running, but a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report estimated the labor is worth up to $6
Elon Musk may be the richest man on the planet, but he and his mom aren’t particular about where they sleep—as long as it’s convenient. The man, reportedly worth $942 billion and the richest person on the planet, recently confirmed he’s living in an Airstream trailer in Memphis to oversee xAI’s Colossus expansion, a massive supercomputer center. It
