Popular Mechanics' 'How to Fight a Data Center' cover sparks tech media culture clash
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-11-03
A tech-culture spat: the new Popular Mechanics lead story is 'How to Fight a Data Center,' which critics call another formerly great tech magazine turning against technology. @Afinetheorem argues the real loss is the decline of optimistic, wonder-filled future narratives in Scientific American, Popular Mechanics, and National Geographic, and points to Arena, Works in Progress, and Colossus as pro-tech alternatives worth supporting — a window into how AI-era compute expansion is splitting tech media narratives.
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