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July 25, 2025
The AI Action Plan: Securing America’s Future in the Age of Intelligence
The White House released its 2025 AI Action Plan—a 28-page blueprint focused on securing US leadership in artificial intelligence. It’s an executive-led strategy with minimal reliance on Congress, emphasizing rapid deployment and national competitiveness. The plan is organized around three pillars: innovation, infrastructure, and international engagement. Each pillar underscores how AI is not just a…
July 24, 2025
Frisbees and Flatulence
Today, The Washington Post and New York Times have both reported that any day now, the Trump administration will publish a proposed rule that reconsiders the 2009 greenhouse gas “endangerment finding” by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In anticipation of the proposed rule’s release, today I highlight five things that everyone should know about the “endangerment finding” so that…
July 24, 2025
Microgrids, Nukes & Novel Tariffs
In July 2024 I wrote a five-part series on data center energy use. Two of those posts focused on the thorny question of how data centers would contract for power in settings where utility regulation and timelines were too slow to enable the data center owner to achieve their desired speed-to-power, and how transaction cost…
July 24, 2025
Airline Security’s Best-Kept Secret
Salutations to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for announcing earlier this month that people would no longer need to remove their shoes at security checkpoints in our nation’s airports. We should welcome exceptions to the generally rigid risk aversion in government-run airline security. And the really good news is that, formally or informally,…
July 23, 2025
How the AI Era Is Changing the Way We Learn and Work
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) rapidly transforms how we work, learn, and organize institutions, questions emerge about whether our current social structures can adopt AI and harness its full potential. From educational systems to workplaces struggling to integrate AI tools, the challenges lie in the structure. How do we redesign our approaches to teaching, learning, and…
July 23, 2025
Trump’s New AI Plan Is Necessary but Insufficient
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers, At minimum, the Trump White House’s new AI Action Plan deserves credit for being honest about what it is: not a blueprint for technocratic governance or navigating a world of superintelligence, but rather a stab at geostrategic competitiveness policy designed to ensure American dominance in what could be the defining technology of our time….
July 22, 2025
Human Progress versus Climate Evangelism
In the annals of history, the first half of 2025 will be remembered for many things. I’d venture that very few are aware of one of the most momentous achievements in human history occurred in the past six months. In fact, there is an organized effort to keep you from understanding this achievement. Before getting…
July 22, 2025
Five Figures – July 2025
Today I am starting up a new feature here at THB — Five Figures. Every month, I will share five (or so) of the most provocative, interesting, or challenging figures to have recently crossed my desk. Five Figures adds to the features and content available to THB’s paid subscribers — which you can find here. Before making…
July 22, 2025
Europe’s Data Strategy Is Built on Wishful Thinking
The European Union is trying to engineer a digital revolution. Through its European Strategy for Data, EU officials hope to create a “single market for data,” knitting together governments, businesses, and individuals into a shared system of industrial and personal data. The goal is an innovative, sovereign digital ecosystem that can rival the United States…
July 21, 2025
Europe’s Grand Data Plan: Ambitious, Expansive, and Ill-Fated
The European Union is pursuing an ambitious digital policy project: create a unified data economy imbued with European values under European governance. Launched in 2020, the European Strategy for Data aims to build a “single European data space.” The integrated digital system would allow individuals, businesses, and governments to share vast troves of industrial, government, and personal…