Friday, May 15, 2026

Internet as a Service

The AI & Cloud Computing Environmental Bill Is Coming Due: Regulation to the Rescue!

On a hot afternoon in a city classroom, a teacher opens an AI lesson planner, a student streams a lecture, a parent checks a school portal, and a district server stores another day of records. None of it looks...

The Political Economy of AI Data Centers and Regional Digital Capacity

AI data centers are moving from local land-use disputes into national policy debates over electricity, jurisdiction, public value, and control. Six months ago, AI data centers looked like a local infrastructure problem, and in many communities that is still how...

What Oracle’s AI Backlog Signals About the Economics of Compute

A recent publication by Oracle reveals something important about the future of computing and, even more so, about the economic importance of processing itself. The article, while simple, outlines that Oracle has a backlog for the implementation of its...

Why Everything Feels Faster but Nothing Feels Different – Serverless Computing and Scaling Is Here

Most improvements in digital life do not arrive with announcement. They appear as absence—fewer crashes during peak traffic, fewer delays when systems are under pressure, fewer moments where something simply does not work. Over time, this becomes the baseline...

AI Adaptive Webpages and the Economics of Intelligent Retail

The New Web Experience For much of the internet’s history, websites behaved the same way for everyone. A retail homepage displayed the same featured products, rankings, and promotions regardless of who was visiting. The structure of the site was fixed,...

Why Power (or Lack Thereof) Is Turning Off the Internet

When Electricity Becomes the Single Point of Failure Cloud infrastructure was built on abstraction. Compute became elastic, storage distributed, and resilience defined by replication across availability zones. For more than a decade, uptime was treated as a software problem. That...

Too Many Ads and Bad Ad-Walls – How Digital News Broke Its Own Product

The modern experience of reading news online rarely feels neutral. Pop-ups interrupt the page before the headline settles. Autoplay video competes with text. Cookie banners, ad reloads, and article limits fragment attention before comprehension begins. A 2023 Deloitte survey...

The Web Is Adapting To How Humans Think

The next phase of the web is not being driven by new destinations or faster infrastructure. It is being driven by a visible breakdown in how humans cope with digital complexity. Across consumer and enterprise environments, people now spend...

When the Internet Stopped Being the Product – IaaS Year End Review (2025)

The Internet as Backbone, Not the Product By the end of 2025, Infrastructure as a Service could no longer be accurately described as an extension of the web, nor even as “cloud platforms” in the sense that shaped enterprise thinking...

The Thirsty Cloud – Europe as a Case Study in Water, Power, and Digital Economics

When Digital Infrastructure Collides with Physical Limits The global infrastructure-as-a-service industry has long been framed as weightless. Cloud platforms are routinely described as software-defined systems constrained primarily by compute availability, network reach, and electricity supply. In practice, data centres are...

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Spectrum Policy Will Decide the Future of the Internet

The internet people use years from now may already be priced, limited, or expanded by spectrum decisions governments are...