Second Order — AI, reported from wherever it lands.
01 The AI Race Investigation 17 Sept · 18 min 
The AI boom is reaching places investors forgot to look Data centre money is landing in towns that were promised fibre optics a decade ago and never got them. Six months of records requests across four divisions show who is actually being paid — and who is paying. Nusrat Jahan Rima02 Climate, Chips & Infrastructure Explainer 18 Sept · 4 min 
A data centre's day, hour by hour Drag through 24 hours of one facility's power and water use, and see when the grid and the river feel it most. Arif Hossain03 Work After Automation 16 Sept · 11 min 
What happens when a chatbot becomes your co-worker? At a Dhaka outsourcing firm, an assistant was introduced to help. Eighteen months on, staff describe negotiating with it for their own shifts. Farhana Akter04 Machines and Power Investigation 16 Sept · 14 min 
The hidden workers teaching machines how to see Annotation work moved from Dhaka to smaller cities where wages are lower and contracts shorter. The labellers describe a job that keeps getting faster. Tanvir Hasan05 AI & Everyday Life 14 Sept · 9 min 
The pharmacist in Kurigram who became a triage system When the nearest doctor is four hours away, a phone model starts making decisions nobody designed it to make. Shireen Akhtar06 AI Across Bangladesh 13 Sept · 12 min 
Gazipur built an AI cluster. Then the power went out. The generators cost more than the GPUs. Nobody budgeted for that. Tanvir Hasan07 Work After Automation Interview 9 Sept · 8 min 
The rise of the prompt supervisor A job that did not exist three years ago now has a pay band, a career ladder, and a burnout problem. Farhana Akter 38 stories All stories → 6 – 18 Sept
The AI boom is reaching places investors forgot to look Data centre money is landing in towns that were promised fibre optics a decade ago and never got them. Six months of records requests across four divisions show who is actually being paid — and who is paying. Nusrat Jahan Rima02 Climate, Chips & Infrastructure Explainer 18 Sept · 4 min A data centre's day, hour by hour Drag through 24 hours of one facility's power and water use, and see when the grid and the river feel it most. Arif Hossain03 Work After Automation 16 Sept · 11 min What happens when a chatbot becomes your co-worker? At a Dhaka outsourcing firm, an assistant was introduced to help. Eighteen months on, staff describe negotiating with it for their own shifts. Farhana Akter04 Machines and Power Investigation 16 Sept · 14 min The hidden workers teaching machines how to see Annotation work moved from Dhaka to smaller cities where wages are lower and contracts shorter. The labellers describe a job that keeps getting faster. Tanvir Hasan05 AI & Everyday Life 14 Sept · 9 min The pharmacist in Kurigram who became a triage system When the nearest doctor is four hours away, a phone model starts making decisions nobody designed it to make. Shireen Akhtar06 AI Across Bangladesh 13 Sept · 12 min Gazipur built an AI cluster. Then the power went out. The generators cost more than the GPUs. Nobody budgeted for that. Tanvir Hasan07 Work After Automation Interview 9 Sept · 8 min The rise of the prompt supervisor A job that did not exist three years ago now has a pay band, a career ladder, and a burnout problem. Farhana Akter 38 stories All stories → 6 – 18 Sept