Jessica Maksimov
Policy Analyst
Former Science, Technology & Policy Fellow at the Department of Energy; Former AI Research Assistant at the Georgetown University Center for Security Studies; Former Boren Fellow in Warsaw, Poland; Former Graduate Intern at the U.S. Department of State
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The Invisible Backbone
AI has increasingly become an underlying infrastructure for the United States, yet the AI sector lacks formal recognition as critical infrastructure, leaving it without public-private coordination mechanisms, information sharing, asset mapping, and protection standards commensurate with AI’s increasing role in critical operations.
Read Full Analysis →Information is Power: The Case for Data Center Transparency
Load growth from computational demand is outpacing the ability of grid planners, energy analysts, and policymakers to track, model, and manage its consequences.
Read Full Analysis →Your Grid Has a New Neighbor
Across the country, data centers are quietly reshaping electric grids, with the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab projecting that data center electricity consumption will rise from 4.4 to 6.7–12 percen...
Read Full Analysis →Wargaming Needs AI. The Department of War Isn’t Ready.
You’ve been invited to an exclusive wargame, held in the hardest-to-access pentagonal-shaped building in the world. You enter an LED-lit room, wrapped in a floor-to-ceiling map dotted with multi...
Read Full Analysis →We Can’t Manage What We Can’t Measure: Why It’s Critical to Standardize Data Center Energy Reporting
While tech titans race to dominate AI benchmarks, their ambitions run on electricity, and lots of it. Take xAI’s Colossus supercomputer in Tennessee. It’s drawing 150 MW from the grid (eno...
Read Full Analysis →Midway to Milliseconds: Wargaming the Next Technology Revolution
Between the world wars, military establishments confronted a technological revolution. Sonar. Radar. Aviation. Submarines. Wireless communications. Each represented a fundamental reordering of how cou...
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