Long explanations, when the subject earns one

Each piece answers one question properly and all the way through. No listicles, and no predictions about what happens in five years.

2 articles on Infrastructure

On the left one large glowing block, on the right an endless row of small units passing through three gateways of increasing width. A one-off outlay and endlessly repeated use are different things, and the same row looks different depending on how widely the measurement boundary is drawn.

Article · Infrastructure

What one AI question actually uses

The bottle-of-water claim comes from a real study whose result changed meaning as it travelled. What it measured, what production measurements now show, and why two honest numbers can differ by a factor of a hundred.

30 August 202612 min

A long queue of projects waiting at a narrow gate, with only a few that have made it through on the other side.

Article · Infrastructure

Finland's data centre boom and the queue for the grid

Over three gigawatts under contract and 50,000 megawatts as enquiries. What the numbers actually mean, and where the real bottleneck is.

6 August 20265 min