A conversation about digital equity, dark money, and the fight over Internet access
A solar-powered laundromat is changing daily life on the Pine Ridge reservation.
A conversation about competition, mergers, and how to make sure the lowest-income households have access to an Internet connection
Elon Musk's Colossus 1 data center in Memphis reflects a historical pattern of corporations siting polluting facilities in poor or Black neighborhoods.
In some states, 30 cents of every dollar a customer pays to their electric utility goes to the utility’s shareholders’ profits. How widespread is this...
A conversation about AI policy, emergent systems, distributed knowledge, and why the things that are easiest to measure “might not be the right things to...
A proposed data center galvanizes resistance in a small West Virginia community, sparking a fight over state vs. local control.
We start at the epicenter: a once-semi-rural Northern Virginia community transformed by Big Tech’s sprawling data centers, sparking a fight for land, autonomy, and transparency.
BEAD delays, LEO satellites, permitting, affordability, and why mobile networks may be getting worse
What can we expect from a new utility-owned distributed storage program that made headlines when it was announced over 18 months ago?
A conversation about how we organize networks—and who they serve
BLP's new season, "The Data Centers are Coming," uncovers how deeply the data center conflict is steeped in America’s legacy of monopolies versus motivated communities.
An important conversation around what happened when federal agents came to Minnesota—and how communities responded
A deep dive into one of the most successful municipal fiber networks in the country—and what other communities can learn from it
What makes faith communities such attractive hosts for resilience hubs?