SHOCKS TO THE SYSTEM OP-ED: 2025 Year in Review: When AI went bananas

If you really want to understand 2025, do not start in Silicon Valley. Start on a construction site somewhere off a regional highway in Texas or Michigan. It is 6am. A line of cranes is lifting steel into a rectangle the size of an airport terminal. Huge concrete pads wait for transformers that will pull more electricity than some towns.