What does it look like when data centers move into town? That's what a lot of Americans are wondering these days, and this VA county gives a glimpse. My @theverge.com feature on Data Center Alley is out now, with amazing visuals by @stephenvoss.bsky.social. Gift link www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

Your future is in Virginia

If you want to know what the data center occupation looks like, there’s one place where it already arrived — 20 years ago.

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A gift link to the NYT astounding, sometimes almost funny chronology of the first year of Kash Patel's FBI. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Kash Patel’s FBI Is Making America Less Safe, Current and Former Employees Say (Gift Article)

Forty-five current and former employees on the changes they say are undermining the agency and making America less safe.

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not surprising and yet still jarring to read ex-FBI agents describing how Kash Patel and Bongino reacted to Charlie Kirk's murder while running the agency. truly the content creator administration/podcast govt www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Here's a litte thing about art, words, fall, nostalgia, baseball, lost innocence, and data centers -- all with a soundtrack included. Grateful to @stephenvoss.bsky.social and his photograph for taking me down this path. I hope you'll read -- and listen. open.substack.com/pub/thaddeva...

The Fall of...

Autumn always does this to me — twists my emotions, creates a sort of longing for bygone days, some unwanted acknowledgement of my mortality.

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The print tear sheet remains unbeaten. Love this layout of my data center work in today’s Washington Lost.

Really proud to share this story I wrote, photographed and shot drone video for to show the cost of the unparalleled expansion of data centers in Northern Virginia to meet the demands of AI. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...

Opinion | What it looks like in the world’s data center capital

Among cemeteries, baseball fields and homes, these Northern Virginia buildings power the internet.

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Charlottesville and UVA friends - my exhibit of data center photographs opens tomorrow! More info here: www.arch.virginia.edu/events/shado...

Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work

onion person@junlper.beer · last yr.

the entire media ecosystem is just not built or ready for events like this and far right billionaires like larry ellison buying news orgs will only make this worse

Very excited to announce my collaboration with the University of Virginia's School of Architecture and MIST lab for their new exhibit, "In the Shadow of the Cloud" which opens tomorrow at the Elmaleh Gallery at UVA.

Deeply grateful to Brian O'Neill for his thoughtful review of my book. "... I am at a loss to recall a book so expertly working with “a tone” within the context of the atmosphere of the object itself" photobookjournal.com/2025/05/23/s...

Stephen Voss – The Haunting of Verdant Valley

Review by Brian O’Neill · Stephen Voss is a photojournalist. You may have seen his work and portraits in Newsweek, Time, The Washington Post Magazine, and more. As a critic and collector of photobo…

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A few images of the xAI data center in Memphis, Tennessee. The data center has attracted controversy recently after it was discovered that they were operating far more gas turbines to provide power than they'd previously agreed to.

Thanks for sharing this, Jason.

kottke.org@kottke.org · last yr.

A drone video of the construction of the world’s largest data center in Texas (the Stargate Project, backed by OpenAI). “When finished, it’ll have the power demands of a mid-sized city and is on a piece of land that’s the size of Central Park.” [kottke.org]

Photographs of the Project Stargate Data Center under construction in Abilene, Texas.

My drone footage of the first Project Stargate data center being built in Abilene, Texas, by OpenAI. When completed, it will be the largest data center in the world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUiI...

Stargate Data Center being built in Abilene, Texas

YouTube video by Stephen Voss

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A few photographs from my coverage of protests on the National Mall in DC yesterday where an estimated 100,000 people showed up to demonstrate against the Trump Administration's policies. for @theverge.com

So flippin’ cool, @robinsloan.com

Happy to be in such great company in American Photography #40 and love having these two images in.

The light hasn't changed in 160 years. I spent a morning in Mathew Brady’s old DC studio—the same place where Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Ulysses S. Grant sat for portraits. lightreadings.substack.com/p/light-read...

Photographs from a protest against Elon Musk outside of the US Department of Treasury building in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, February 4, 2025.

A few images from the Inauguration of President Donald J. Trump in Washington, DC today, for @CNN.

Please read Luke Mullins' story about Capitol Police Officer Howie Liebengood, who took his own life on Jan. 9th, 2021. This is a story that could only be told with the commitment of family and I’m grateful for their trust and openness. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

What Really Happened with the First Officer Suicide After Jan. 6

Howie Liebengood killed himself three days after Jan. 6. His family has no doubt about what really killed him.

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Huge thanks to the OG blogger, Jason Kottke for featuring my book. I spent two years photographing these bonsai trees, often thinking of the generations of bonsai masters who tended to them. I’m down to my last few boxes of books, after which they’ll be gone forever.

kottke.org@kottke.org · 2y ago

In Training: a book of bonsai photos. A lovely collection of amazing bonsai trees, some of which have been in training for decades. [kottke.org]

Every cover shoot is different, a whirling amalgam of logistics, improvisation and creativity--hours of planning compressed into a tight ten minutes or so (most of the time). 1/3

A few favorite photos from a springtime trip to Japan.

We just gotta go through our seasons. Love that.

the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2y ago

as a person who, at the age of 13, owned like 14 autographed Ellison books & cherished a typewritten letter he'd sent me spelling out the ending of "Jeffty is Five," I can say it wouldn't have done you any more good that it would have done me, we just gotta go through our seasons