Broadband Breakfast

Data Center

As AI Data Centers Surge, Builders Confront the Politics of Power

At the AI Infra Summit, experts said the future of data centers hinges less on AI itself and more on securing electricity and community trust.

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After the Titanic Sank, Congress Passed America’s First Major Radio Law

The system worked while radio was dominated by ships and point-to-point communication. Mass broadcasting in the 1920s exposed what Congress had left unresolved.

Digital Divide

Broadband Access Alone Isn’t Enough for Small Businesses

Panelists said small businesses need affordable, reliable service and the skills to use it, not just a connection.

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Lesson 4: The Origin of Wireless

The Titanic sank in April 1912, Congress required a federal license to transmit four months later, and the Navy seized or shut every private radio station in the country when the country entered the war in 1917.

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While Most Countries Put Telephones Inside the Post Office, America Tried That One Year

Britain held its network 114 years. America's experiment lasted twelve months, ending August 1919.

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Lesson 3: In Other Countries, PTTs (Posts, Telegraph and Telephone)

This lesson asks the comparative question of why the American telephone monopoly stayed in private hands, when most of the world ran its telephones through a government post office.

A Looming ‘Tokenocracy’ Threatens Regulators Ability to Govern AI

Panelists say the evaluation gap, not geopolitics, is the binding constraint on global AI rules

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The Kingsbury Commitment Promised Competition. AT&T Got 98% of Long Distance

In the illustration, J.P. Morgan is depicted as an Octopus trainer, AT&T President Theodore Vail says 'perfectly abhorrent,' and the dog, representing independent companies, says 'I'm next.'