by Victoria Mba-Jonas | Mar 30, 2020 |
In the otherwise flat Minnesotan expanse, the whitish-gray mound of coal ash looks mountainous, a permanent cemetery of contaminants next to the twin smokestacks of the Sherburne County Generating Station. This power plant doesn’t just run the town of Becker; it...
by Victoria Mba-Jonas | Mar 16, 2020 |
(Clockwise, from top left) Satellite images showing data centers in Council Bluffs, Iowa; Eagle Mountain, Utah; Altoona, Iowa; and New Albany, Ohio. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: 731; PHOTOS: GOOGLE EARTH Ed Soliday likens data centers to the Spruce Goose, the enormous wooden...
by Joaquin Torres | Jul 26, 2017 |
For two days, the crowd sits in darkness in plush theater seats, watching the church stage. There are smoke machines and LED screens, harnessed climbers scaling a scaffold “mountain” and raising their arms in symbolic victory over the startup world’s arduous climb....
