America’s New Critical Infrastructure, Part III - Grid Dependency
For decades, the data center industry viewed power primarily as a capacity question.
Do we have enough megawatts?
Can the utility deliver the load?
How quickly can new infrastructure be connected?
Those questions still matter, but they increasingly miss a much larger issue.
The problem is no longer simply power availability.
It is dependency.
Protecting America’s New Critical Infrastructure, Part II - The New Battlespace
For generations, warfare was defined by geography. Nations fought to control territory, ports, shipping lanes, rail corridors, energy reserves, and industrial capacity. Strategic infrastructure was tangible and visible—bridges, factories, pipelines, electrical grids.
In the AI era, however, a new strategic landscape is emerging.
Why Data Centers Belong on America’s Critical Infrastructure List
For decades, America’s definition of critical infrastructure has been shaped by the systems that keep the nation functioning—power grids, water systems, telecommunications networks, transportation corridors, hospitals, financial systems, and defense industrial capacity. These sectors form the backbone of modern society, and rightly receive heightened protection, policy attention, and strategic planning because disruption to any one of them can ripple across the entire country.