infrastructure costs

Every time a company announces a new data center or a chat window suggests “Draft with Copilot,” an invisible ledger updates: more compute, more cooling, more capital — and, increasingly, higher costs passed beyond the hyperscalers to ordinary electricity customers and hardware buyers. The...

The Walrus’s latest “Weekly Quiz” bundles a surprising randge of beats — from microbiology and pipelines to parental rights and the creeping presence of generative AI in law — and, taken together, the collection reads less like a light quiz than a compact dossier on three converging forces...