Gigawatts
The untold story of ambition, real estate and raw power, from the mainframe to the AI gold rush
First draft, November 2026. Published online and still being revised.
A history of the data center, from 1960s time-sharing through the dot-com hosting boom and bust, Equinix and the cloud, to today’s AI build-out. A collaboration between Claude and Dan Caruso, author of Bandwidth.
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I’ve lived through one Boom, Bust and Resurgence cycle, and I wrote a book about it. The data-center industry has already been through one of its own. It is in the middle of a second, bigger one right now, and this time the stakes are measured in gigawatts.
From the preface
Details
- Edition
- First draft
- Date
- November 2026
- Length
- Nine chapters, four appendices
