Jill Lepore on why Silicon Valley gets science fiction wrong

Historian Jill Lepore explains what tech leaders miss in their favorite stories—and why the fight over AI data centers may be where the machine stops

My family moved to Loudoun County, Virginia, in 2005. Dotted with farms, horses and wineries, the region was a growing part of Northern Virginia’s IT industry. Two decades later, Loudoun is one of the wealthiest counties in America and widely known as the “data center capital” of America. It is also a part of the ...