Is Houston really that red, or is that illustration wrong?
The big dots are about announced spending; I think they’re assigning partisanship based on how the state as a whole voted, not how the specific municipality with the spending voted.
That kind of makes sense, since those areas probably have not prioritized state or local green initiatives. There is probably more opportunity to make a difference there when you are looking at the whole country objectively.
I’m out in the middle-of-nowhere east Texas, and they just laid fiber out down our street…color me impressed
For five years I’ve had fiber to the wall but the highest plan offered is 10 MB per second.
Why / how? I got 1000 mbit through a copper cable (wall socket, obviously).
It’s cool, best I can get ATM is OliveIP, which is a router i purchase from them that turns cell signal into wifi 🤷♂️
The vast majority of the $346-billion-worth of announced investments – nearly 78% – has gone to Republican congressional districts,
“Republican districts tend to be more rural,” Houser said. “It’s very hard to build large industrial facilities in dense urban areas.” Comparatively, Rhodium and MIT’s data sho