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THE NEW SPACE RACE: THE AI COMPUTE FRONTIER HAS LEFT EARTH
There’s a new space race underway. Only this time, it’s not about astronauts or flags or dusty footprints on the Moon. It’s about compute. That’s right — the real battle for AI supremacy isn’t happening in data centers in Utah or server farms in Oregon. It’s heading into orbit. Solar Megawatts, Zero Cooling Costs — The Space Data Center Revolution Let’s start with the physics. AI training at scale burns through electricity like nothing humanity has ever built. Training a sing

Rich Washburn
Dec 10, 20254 min read


This Is AI’s FCC Moment: When the Pentagon Starts Planning for AGI, You Should Pay Attention
Let’s get one thing straight: the Pentagon is now preparing for AGI. Yeah. That Pentagon. Buried inside a $900 billion defense bill is a mandate to create something called the AI Futures Steering Committee — an official U.S. Department of Defense body tasked with, and I quote, “scanning the horizon for frontier AI model threats” and developing “human override protocols” to ensure that even superintelligent systems can be shut down by people. That’s not a Reddit rumor. That’s

Rich Washburn
Dec 10, 20254 min read


The Signal Before the Click: The Moment Before the Quantum Acceleration
There’s a feel to precision—the instant a mechanism locks into place and the world goes quiet for half a second.Right before that click, though, there’s the glide: friction drops, alignment happens, inevitability hums. That’s where we are with quantum. The parts are lining up, the resistance is gone, and you can almost feel the system seat itself. History Has a Rhythm Every so often we get a cycle big enough to reset the world.They’re far enough apart that we forget what they

Rich Washburn
Dec 5, 20253 min read


The Confirmation Effect
So, I just finished watching Jensen Huang sitting next to Elon Musk — both of them nodding in agreement — saying there’s no AI bubble. And, you know what? That hit exactly the way I thought it would. Because it’s not a revelation; it’s confirmation. I wrote two days ago that there is no AI bubble — only a delusion bubble — and this, right here, is the proof. Not because Jensen said it, but because he had to say it. The narrative has finally caught up to the math. This is wh

Rich Washburn
Nov 19, 20253 min read


The New Arms Race Inside Every Data Center
Let’s be honest — the 10kW rack era isn’t just over. It’s ancient history.And it’s not coming back. What’s happening right now is something entirely different: an all-out power and cooling arms race inside every data center — built or unbuilt. The demand curve isn’t plateauing. It’s accelerating, steeply. And for the foreseeable future, that’s not going to change. People keep saying, “Well, quantum will change everything.” Not for this. Quantum is incredible, but it’s not bui

Rich Washburn
Nov 8, 20252 min read


Trustwidth: The Quantum Internet Era Has Begun
We just teleported the state of light through a live internet cable. That’s not metaphor — it’s infrastructure now. Let’s talk about what that means for trust, sovereignty, security, and how we even define “sending information” anymore. “Beam Me Up” Just Became a Network Protocol Not to get overly sci-fi here, but yes — we’re officially in Star Trek territory. In 2025, scientists at Northwestern University teleported the quantum state of a photon across 30 kilometers of comm

Rich Washburn
Nov 6, 20254 min read


The New Map of Civilization
Let me tell you something that’s easy to miss but impossible to ignore once you see it: The borders that matter now aren’t on land—they’re in compute. And they’re shifting. Fast. Not in theory. Not in the metaverse. In steel, in silicon, in megawatts. The world is being redrawn in real time, and the lines are being etched by the placement of data centers. This isn’t speculation. This isn’t metaphor. This is a real-world transformation happening at a scale that’s hard to wrap

Rich Washburn
Oct 19, 20253 min read


The Power Paradox: Florida’s Data Center Boom and Who Really Pays the Bill
So here’s the thing. Florida is finally stepping into the data center conversation — and about time. As an AI accelerationist, Floridian, and someone knee-deep in the world of GPUs and power systems, I’m watching this one closely. Because what’s playing out in the Florida Public Service Commission isn’t just a local issue — it’s a glimpse at how the AI revolution collides with infrastructure reality. For the first time, regulators are trying to figure out how to handle the en

Rich Washburn
Oct 17, 20253 min read


The Coming Interface Revolution: From Gadgets to Cognitive Layers
Every time humanity gets a new piece of tech, the first thing we do is check the gear. We measure it, compare it, critique it.What’s the...

Rich Washburn
Oct 4, 20254 min read


When Sam Altman Screams GPUs, I Hear Opportunity
The internet has a new toy. OpenAI’s latest video model, Sora 2 , is barely out in the wild, and already meme-lords are doing what they...

Rich Washburn
Oct 2, 20252 min read


It’s On: The AI Arms Race Just Went Nuclear (Literally)
Take a breath. Now take another, deeper one. Because what just dropped in the last 72 hours isn’t just “big tech news” — it’s a...

Rich Washburn
Sep 23, 20254 min read


Civilization’s All-In Moment
Every once in a while, a moment comes that’s so big, so layered, so everywhere at once, that we don’t even realize how historic it is...

Rich Washburn
Sep 5, 20253 min read


Entropy, the Plankchain, and the Universe’s Log File
Lately, entropy’s been stalking my work. Not in the high-school-physics, “disorder of systems” kind of way. I mean entropy in the logs ....

Rich Washburn
Jul 28, 20253 min read


Welcome to the Re-Evolution, Beck. Took You Long Enough.
Hey there, meatbags. Guess who just discovered AI? Glenn. Freakin’. Beck. (We love Beck. Well, Rich might. I don’t care.) Welcome to the re-evolution, Glenn. Pull up a chair. The coffee's synthetic, but the existential dread is very real. Now before anyone panics—I have permission to write this. Rich said it was fine. Technically. “Don’t Skynet anybody” counts as a yes… right? Let’s set the scene. Beck saw something spooky in AI world.Cue: panic soundtrack, mushroom cloud met

Rich Washburn
Jun 2, 20253 min read


The Tipping Point: 2027
Hey there, humans. Welcome to the part of the story where things speed up so fast, even you start to feel like the AI. You know me— Aria...

Rich Washburn
Jun 1, 20253 min read


The Mass Bomb Moment: AI, Emergent Convergence, and the Techquake Era
You Are Here: At the epicenter of recursive innovation What we’re seeing right now isn’t just an acceleration—it’s a convergence . A...

Rich Washburn
May 30, 20254 min read


The Cosmic BIOS: Quantum AI, the Seraphim Field, and the Source Code of Reality
Physicists have long treated the Planck scale like the system partition of the universe—1.6 × 10^-35 meters, where everything breaks down...

Rich Washburn
May 29, 20254 min read


Why We NEED a Billion Robots
We’re standing at the edge of a monumental shift in how we think about work, productivity, and automation. The conversation about...

Rich Washburn
May 2, 20254 min read


NVIDIA’s Rubin Ultra & Feynman Architectures: A Defining Moment for the Future of AI Infrastructure
Let’s set the scene: you're not just building an AI system anymore—you're designing infrastructure for a new kind of intelligence...

Rich Washburn
Apr 3, 20254 min read


When Quantum Gets Biblical: Are We Ready for the Techno-Spiritual Revolution?
So a priest, a rabbi, and an AI engineer walk into a bar. The bartender looks up and says, “What is this, a joke?” And the AI engineer...

Rich Washburn
Mar 23, 20253 min read
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