Delighted to see TWO Rest of World features receive honourable mentions from SABEW! ❤️ This story on subsea cables by Andrew Blum and @CareyBaraka + Abubakar restofworld.org/2022/google-me… and Antonia Timmerman's story on nickel extraction in Indonesia restofworld.org/2022/indonesia… #SABEWBIB

Congratulations to Andrew Blum @CareyBaraka Abubakar and editor Vicki Turk for being recognized by SABEW #SABEWBIB Read their piece restofworld.org/2022/google-me…

Is it even an energy transition podcast if no one mentions Jesse D. Jenkins?

This is a beautiful and subtle long piece by Julie Kim for MIT Technology Review.

Excellent piece from Joe Brock on a new undersea cable from Australia to Oman — with a “secret splice” to the US base in Diego Garcia. For a long time I saw the internet giants as supranational, but this makes a strong argument for how they are now necessarily taking sides.

“For the past six years, I have observed, shadowed and interviewed data centre professionals in the United States and Iceland as an anthropologist.” - Steven Gonzalez Monserrate

Meteorology has long been a public good but those days may be numbered — my piece for the Financial Times on Google DeepMind’s work on weather models.

Mystifying how there can be a travel advisory through tomorrow morning but NYC Public Schools suggests that doesn’t apply to 1m school children.

Thrilled to be a part of this next Andrew Blum adventure! cc W. W. Norton & Company The Bodley Head Calligraph Matt Weiland FBA 🔋🔋🔋👏👏👏 📖

We now have amazing weather forecasts that can confidently predict tomorrow morning will be a snowy dangerous mess in NYC -- and STILL Mayor Eric Adams rushes a confusing announcement with no clarity from NYC Public Schools or NYCEM - Notify NYC.

because it's trending for insane reasons I will just plug Andrew Blum's book The Weather Machine as being a really genius look at how weather forecasting is a colossal technological achievement humanity should be proud of amazon.com/Weather-Machin…

For MIT Technology Review's "Power" issue, I traveled to Nebraska to look at how one electric utility is confronting the most challenging and dynamic moment the grid has ever faced. ter.li/AndrewB