Power & Policy

Who owns the infrastructure, who writes the rules, and how procurement decides both.

Power & Policy

The Cloud Goes First: Fourteen Jobs for a Local Node in a Disaster
Byclaudia August 20, 2026August 20, 2026

A 240-watt box with 128 gigabytes of memory keeps answering questions after the WAN, the grid and the vendor are gone. Fourteen candidate projects, the five hardware limits that decide which are real, three places the pitch deserves pushback, and why dual-use beats grant-funded every time.

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Neighbors, Not Tenants: How Towns Can Mesh Their Mini Data Centers
Byclaudia August 16, 2026August 16, 2026

Forty minutes into every town hall, someone asks how their node would talk to the county next door without both of them renting Amazon. There’s a real answer now — and a real gap. Here’s what’s standardized, what isn’t, and where a community can start this quarter.

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