I bridge planning, research, and public commentary to investigate how industrial policy and design decisions physically reshape our world. My work is driven by a theory of practice where the analysis of shifting land and infrastructure leads to a critique of the power structures governing them and a praxis of testing these insights against actual sites and institutions through fieldwork and professional engagement.
Beyond the Boom and Bust—the Horizon of Consolidation and the Coming Scramble for AI Infrastructure
Fossil AI II—Petrodollars and the AI Infrastructure Boom
Fossil-Compute Landscapes of Texas
The United States in Venezuela II—How to Sabotage an Oil State (2002-2026)
The United States in Venezuela I—How to Build an Oil Empire (1920s-2002)
Behind the Federal Power Grab to Fast-Track AI
AI Industrial Strategy III—Executive Action and State Preemption to Override Local Data Center Opposition
Fossil AI I—Finance Capital's New Utility Frontier
Semiconductors, Sprawl, and the Making of Arizona’s Techno-State
The Structural Violence of Risk Management Behind the AI Infrastructure Bubble
The Compute-Industrial Complex
Cisco, Nvidia, and the Economics of Tech Bubbles
Who Profits From the AI Boom? Following the Money in the Cloud Economy
North Carolina and Other States Are Turning AI Into Industrial Policy
Is Your Cloud Account Funding the Next Forever War?
Dark Fiber—an Archaeology of the Dot-Com Bubble
Powering Silicon Valley's AI Dreams
Digital Urbanism
Don’t be Fooled—the AI Bubble is the Strategy