Category: geospatial

AI Data Centers and the Risk of Stranded Infrastructure

Introduction The current data center boom appears to be an early-stage, brute-force response to the first wave of artificial intelligence demand. The market has encountered a rapid increase in demand for training, inference, and AI-enabled cloud services, and the immediate response has understandably been physical scale in the form of larger campuses, more megawatts, denser … Continue reading AI Data Centers and the Risk of Stranded Infrastructure →

Metadata Rising

Earlier in my career, I was working on an infrastructure protection task and we were reconciling data from several sources that addressed the same road network. The data from the locality was authoritative, but it lacked some information we needed so we were conflating other data to the linework. I commented on the general lack … Continue reading Metadata Rising →

Cloud, Ready

As a consultant, I have always placed a premium on the maturity of the technologies I recommend and deploy for my customers. While staying current with innovations, especially in the geospatial space, is a critical part of my work, I believe in letting new technologies develop and stabilize before introducing them into customer workflows. This … Continue reading Cloud, Ready →