For years, tech companies sold Americans a comforting illusion called “the cloud.” It sounded soft. Weightless. Almost magical. Our photos, messages, streaming services, and social media posts were supposedly floating somewhere in the digital heavens like electronic fireflies. But the reality is far less poetic. The cloud is physical. It has buildings, cooling towers, power substations, diesel generators, pipelines, tax incentives, and environmental consequences. Increasingly

Pennsylvania politics has a new mystery — and it starts with a question. According to reporting from WITF , the Republican candidate for governor, Stacy Garrity , says Donald Trump asked her one specific question before deciding whether to endorse her campaign. She answered the question. Trump endorsed her. Twenty minutes later. Simple enough — except for one detail. Garrity refuses to say what the question was. What is that question? Reporters have asked repeatedly, and e