Beyond the Blackout: How Adversaries are Weaponizing Grid Reliability in the AI Era
The visible images of modern conflict—like Ukraine’s recent drone strikes on Moscow’s Kapotnya Oil Refinery—rightly capture the world’s attention. But the more insidious threat to Western democracy is the silent, ongoing cyberwar targeting the automated software running our power systems. While my recent coverage at Forbes zeroes in on the immediate economic and corporate intersections […]
The Sovereign Underwriters of the Tech Boom
The conversation surrounding artificial intelligence is too often confined to Silicon Valley software, large language models, and venture capital. But as I explore in my latest piece on Forbes, the digital economy is fundamentally an industrial economy. It requires land, massive amounts of steel, advanced manufacturing pipelines, and—above all—unprecedented amounts of electricity. As domestic grids […]