01 · the vote
america voted on ai. ai lost.
on election day, 41 towns and cities voted on data centers, the giant buildings where chips like this one do their work.
before you scroll, guess. how many of the 41 went against them?
edition 04 · tuesday nov 10
one chip, one week.
this little piece of glass is what the whole week was about. follow it from the factory floor to where it lives, and see who came for it along the way.
scroll slowly
01the vote
0of 41 voted against
the one clear dot is harwood, north dakota.
01 · two days later
then wall street noticed.
wed close0.0%thu midday
nvidia fell 8.2% by thursday midday, and micron fell nearly 14%. ubs says about 30% of the data center capacity planned for 2028 is now at risk.
elon musk's answer the night of the results: "data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now." real plan or a joke?
al jazeera and reuters, nov 5 · tikr · the line shows the two prices, not every trade in between
02the honeypot
02 · the honeypot
who gets the chips?
the ceo of the company that makes the world's most wanted chips is at the center of a spy story. it's two stories at once. swipe between them.
confirmed
jensen huang wrote to nvidia staff, "i was unfaithful to my wife." the board opened an independent investigation and says it has no reason to believe national security or nvidia secrets were compromised.
alleged
reports say u.s. intelligence believes the woman was recruited by china's ministry of state security, and that she was an executive at megaspeed, a firm accused of smuggling $2 billion in ai chips into china. china calls the claims unfounded, and nvidia denies any improper dealings.
confirmed. swipe for what's alleged
03my take
03 · my take
fear is a fair vote.
a town that votes no on a data center is doing math, and the math isn't crazy. these buildings need a lot of power and water, and the neighbors are the ones who live with that. somebody still has to show those towns what they get back.
04 · the film
you've been playing a film with your thumb.
everything behind these words is one continuous shot of that chip. every time you scroll, you move it forward a frame.
1of 1052 frames
04 · the chip is homehome
my work
things i've built
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