This article examines why companies are building massive centralized AI infrastructure for workloads that don’t technically require it, who profits from that choice, and what communities need to understand before approving deals that subsidize extraction infrastructure instead of supporting adaptation alternatives.
While Meta signs multi-gigawatt nuclear deals and communities approve billion-dollar data centers, Swiss researchers proved that 80-90% of AI work doesn’t need massive facilities at all. It is now capable of running on 4-10 computers locally.
When technology hits the “good enough AND cheaper” threshold, change happens FAST. Distributed computing didn’t gradually replace mainframes over 20 years—it happened in 3-5 years once the technology crossed that line.
We just crossed that line. Last week.
Career Intelligence for Workers Navigating AI Transformation A Note on Timing Under the Radar continues to adapt. Starting today, Under the Radar publishes at 5:00 PM ET on Fridays instead of our previous morning schedule. Why? The most important employment data releases happen Friday mornings at 8:30 AM ET – initial jobless claims, and on … Read more
December’s numbers paint the picture clearly: 122,000 jobs added according to ADP. 209,838 tech workers laid off in 2025. The disconnect isn’t an accident. Companies are hiring people who build the automation while laying off people the automation replaces. Workers using AI are taking jobs from workers who don’t.
On December 18, 2025, Anthropic announced a new capability called Agent Skills. By the next day, I automated my newsletter. Here’s what I learned. And how you can do it too. The Problem I Had (You Probably Have It Too) Every Thursday afternoon and Friday morning, I spend about nine hours producing Under the Radar, … Read more
Infrastructure buildout accelerating despite financing uncertainty. Workers caught between automation pressure and infrastructure job promises that don’t materialize.
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.
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.
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
