Why Forcing Data Centers to Generate Their Own Power Won’t Lower Utility Bills
Forcing AI companies to provide their own power doesn’t get at the root of the issue, which is that the resources we use to generate electricity are scarce.
Forcing AI companies to provide their own power doesn’t get at the root of the issue, which is that the resources we use to generate electricity are scarce.
Thanks to taxpayer funding, scientific research has become utterly and hopelessly politicized. It’s time to pull the plug on this funding for good.
Bob uses Trump’s call to ban congressional insider trading as a springboard to explain why, from an Austro-libertarian perspective, insider trading and speculation could help markets work, while still justifying special rules for government employees.
The Trump administration is trying to develop programs to domestically produce “critical” minerals that might be unavailable during trade disruptions. Of course, it is turning into yet another central planning fiasco.
Dr. Keith Smith recounts how the Surgery Center of Oklahoma and the Free Market Medical Association are exposing the hospital–insurance cartel—posting honest, bundled prices, triggering price wars, and proving that free-market medicine can deliver higher quality care at a fraction of the cost.
Dr. Per Bylund contrasts the futility of politics with the quiet power of entrepreneurship, showing how innovative businesses like Uber and Amazon actually dismantle regulations, reshape institutions, and push the state back more effectively than any protest movement or election.
When government equipment isn’t enough, the free market comes to the rescue.
The story of Anil Ambani destroys the belief that capitalism automatically favors the rich and excludes the poor. Once a billionaire, he made a series of bad business choices and the market punished those choices. Capitalism favors good choices.
The story of Anil Ambani destroys the belief that capitalism automatically favors the rich and excludes the poor. Once a billionaire, he made a series of bad business choices and the market punished those choices. Capitalism favors good choices.