One of TeraWulf’s Bitcoin mining farms. On August 20, Maryland’s data center industry rented a hall and threw itself a party. No, that’s not a joke. While Marylanders across the Old Line State push back against the rapid expansion of data centers…
Today: October 13, 2026
Ethan Wechtaluk
Nobody had ever asked before. Not Montgomery County. Not Maryland. Not Verizon. I am not being facetious. My Verizon bill has twelve lines on it. Four phones, five watches, three iPads. Courtney and I, our three daughters, and my mother. The taxes…
In the fall of 2008 I was sitting in a political science classroom at Virginia Tech while the things we were studying were also happening outside the window. Lehman Brothers went down in September. I read the assigned material and then read…
Part Two of an ongoing series. Part One is here. On July 26 I filed four public information requests all on the same subject: how Montgomery County’s 911 fee gets set, certified, and collected. Two of them went to state agencies. Two…
You applied on a Tuesday. Maybe you tailored the resume, agonized over a cover letter that made you sound as capable as you believe you are, and got the auto-reply thanking you for your interest in joining the team. Then nothing. Three…
Maryland removed the ceiling on county 911 fees in 2022. The Comptroller was told to check whether counties actually need what they charge. In the most recent year the state has reported, it recovered $26,534 across all of Maryland, and the agency…
The Amazon data center under construction in Gilroy, Calif. Photography by Jason Henry for WSJ. I have taken apart more electronics than I can count. A transistor radio, a Nintendo 64, a Raspberry Pi, a full desktop stripped to the bare board…
Before reading this story, check out Part 1 of the TeraWulf series. Jerry Jackson/The Banner On July 29, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission signed off on TeraWulf’s purchase of the retired Morgantown coal plant on the Potomac, an early step toward turning…
Refugee camp in Chad sheltering Sudanese displaced by conflict, May 16, 2023. On March 21, 2022, standing in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Antony Blinken said that beyond the Holocaust the United States had concluded seven times that genocide had been…
On July 30, 2026, the FBI and the EPA published a short warning to American water utilities.¹ Most of it is pretty routine but one line is not. When attackers seize a programmable logic controller and a water system loses pressure, untreated…
