I’m Mike Hammett. Twenty years running ISP and data center infrastructure in Northern Illinois, co-founding an internet exchange, and watching public narratives about technical systems drift further from operational reality.
Most of what gets written about infrastructure, policy, and public finance is wrong in ways that matter. Not maliciously wrong, usually. Just written by people who’ve never had to make the system work. This site exists to close that gap.
I’ve been publishing infrastructure analysis on LinkedIn for a while. That content moves here, where it’s easier to find. Data centers are the current focus. There’s an unusual amount of bad information circulating, and it’s starting to affect real decisions. But the same framework applies anywhere the public story doesn’t match how the underlying system actually behaves. There’s no shortage of topics.
If a claim can be checked, it will be. If a number is being misused, that’ll be in the article. If the critics have a point, that’ll be in there too.