Under the Radar — December 19, 2025
Infrastructure buildout accelerating despite financing uncertainty. Workers caught between automation pressure and infrastructure job promises that don’t materialize.
The Great Acceleration
The Great Acceleration covers the speed of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Beyond Hyperscale. There Are Better Options.
Communities have leverage right now while developers are desperate. Use it to demand alternatives that match financial and physical reality – not promises that require miracle financing and rewriting physics.
Goal: Control AI Infrastructure and Regulation
Executive Order 14318 (July 23, 2025): “Accelerating Federal Permitting of Data Center Infrastructure”
Fast-track data centers on federal land, bypass environmental review, make federal sites available within months.
Executive Order (December 11, 2025): “Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence”
Sue states that regulate AI, threaten federal funding, create legal uncertainty about local control.
Together, they form a coordinated strategy: accelerate AI infrastructure deployment while eliminating regulatory barriers at every level of government.
Under the Radar — December 12, 2025
Executive Order Attacking State AI Laws 📋 TABLE OF CONTENTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚨 BREAKING: Trump Signs Executive Order Attacking State AI Laws Full analysis publishing this morning but here is the overview. December 11, 2025, 6:33 PM ET – President Trump signed an executive order attempting to block states from regulating artificial intelligence, creating an … Read more
Agentic AI Foundation: The AIAG Playbook at Scale
Technical standards bodies can’t solve social problems. But social problems don’t solve themselves just because technical standards work.
Under the Radar – December 5, 2025
The Market Just Shifted: Only 4 Qualified Paths Forward ═══════════════════════════════════════ Bottom Line Up Front We’re only listing four career opportunities this week. That’s not an oversight. It’s an honest assessment of the current market. The December 2-3 announcements. Salesforce/AWS/Snowflake/Anthropic giving 24,600+ companies push-button agent deployment fundamentally changed what we can confidently recommend. December 4 brought … Read more
Breaking: McKinsey Said 57% of Jobs Could Be Automated. Amazon and Salesforce Just Made It Deployable.
The barrier keeping McKinsey’s 57% theoretical wasn’t primarily cost. It was the talent bottleneck: companies couldn’t hire AI specialists to implement automation even when they wanted to. Job postings requiring “5 years experience in 4-year-old fields” became the practical barrier that kept automation locked in the realm of theory.
On December 3, 2025, AWS eliminated that barrier.
Why AI Deployment Continues Despite Debt: The Three Forces That Make This Unstoppable
Part 2 of “Why AI Isn’t a Bubble” series Introduction In the three weeks since we published “Why AI Isn’t a Bubble,” a predictable narrative emerged: “$25 billion in data center debt comes due in 2026-2027. Companies will default. The bubble will pop.” Here’s what that analysis misses: While American media debates debt sustainability, China … Read more
Under the Radar – November 28, 2025: The Jobs Report Looks Fine. Tech Workers Aren’t.
The disconnect between official statistics and worker reality has never been wider. Bottom Line Up Front Week ending November 28, 2025 (Thanksgiving – Data Verification Limited) Initial jobless claims dropped to 216,000 last week. The lowest level since mid-April. Federal officials and market analysts point to this as evidence the labor market remains healthy. Meanwhile, … Read more
McKinsey’s November 2025 Bombshell: 57% of Work Hours Already Automatable
By the time you hear about automation risk in a McKinsey report, leading companies have already been implementing for 1-2 years. The research doesn’t predict the future—it documents the present with a 12-18 month lag.
