HeyJaredLimbostructure
An occasional series about the things that stand between us and the infrastructure our ancestors could build
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The lost art of data centre building (opens the original)
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Last week my Substack feed was fizzing with thoughts on AI. You may be sick of them, and there are certainly wiser writers than me on frontier models. But one story didn’t come up, and I wanted to fix that.Which is ironic, as it’s all about something that has been with us for seventy years.<div class="
PINO – planning in name only (opens the original)
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Every decade or so, London pulls a magic growth trick. It’s not complicated. Step one – level a huge patch of land. Step two – let people build on it. Step three – create a world-leading economic cluster.We did it in the Docklands, where the LDDC cleared out the old port and replaced it with Canary Wharf. We did it again at Kings Cross, where the Channel Tunnel Rail Link cleared out the old Goods Yard and created what is now the biggest AI hub outside of the US. And we’re about to do it again, w
A Green Bridge too far? (opens the original)
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There is nothing like a good site visit – we deal with projects mostly in the abstract (reports, stories, debates, maps, diagrams) and it is only when you see it all together as a physical reality that certain thoughts meet for the first time. And, it was on a visit to a section of HS2, deep in the Northamptonshire countryside, I discovered something big. Very big.Subscribe now<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fe
TfL’s worst nightmare? (opens the original)
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A quick post this week, as my household is slightly distracted by a new arrival. It turns out that This week, I’m going to coast on someone else’s good work.Subscribe nowSmall tunnel update: thank you to everyone who helped spread the word about the launch. Quite aside from ticking ‘appearing on PM’ off my bucket list we’ve managed to turn government’s position from <a href="https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/manchester-sheffield-under
Norse by Northwest (opens the original)
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I need to be honest with you – for the past year of this substack, I’ve been hiding a little secret. Perhaps not such a little secret. As of Monday morning, it’s out. Very out.Subscribe nowAbout a year ago I created a company called Future Works. We’ve been operating under the radar to try to solve a mystery, and revive an old project. Back
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