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Just over 25 years ago, I was part of a team that flew to Cisco’s headquarters in San Jose and bought more than $2 million worth of routers and firewalls to connect multiple data centers together by a new 10,000-mile fiber ring. Fast forward to tonight — Tues, Feb 4th, 2025 — when I attended the Morgan County Economic Development Corp.’s presentation of the “Morgan County Data Center Project 1 Planned Unit Development” at Monrovia Christian Church. It was a packed house.

We just got back from the UK, from a whirlwind visit to celebrate a friend’s birthday. The rental car company deemed us as suitable guinea pigs to be upgraded to a fully electric vehicle. Last time we were in the UK, we rented a hybrid, which satisfied the ensuing panic of “what if there are no charging stations where we are going?” The hybrid did have all the bells and whistles, and the adaptive cruise control (I’ll talk more about this) no doubt stopped us from being in a multi-vehicle crash on the motorway.

So I got dragged into the cinema last night. This was a little bit unusual in that I had no idea what we were going see.

"You'll like it."

"um... OK."

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