Parkwood Intelligence

Critical Infrastructure Insight for the people who build, protect and fund it.

Analysis, explainers, and market signals across post-quantum cryptography, distributed grid capacity, and critical infrastructure security.

The Quantum Threat

Post-quantum cryptography and the transition timeline for critical systems

Grid Intelligence

Demand-side flexibility, distributed capacity, and the energy reckoning

Critical Infrastructure

Security, modernization, and resilience for defense, government, and municipal environments

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Park Intel Quantum
The Quantum Threat Isn't Coming. It Has Already Started.
The Quantum Threat Isn't Coming. It Has Already Started.

Most discussions about quantum computing begin with a question:

"When will quantum computers become powerful enough to break today's encryption?"

It is the wrong question. The more important question is:

"How long will it take to protect the world's critical infrastructure before that day arrives?"

The answer is measured not in months—but in years.

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Park Intel Grid Intelligence
The Grid Isn't Running Out of Power. It's Running Out of Time.
Grid Intelligence
The Grid Isn't Running Out of Power. It's Running Out of Time.
Grid Intelligence

For years, the conversation around America's electrical grid has revolved around one question:

How do we build more power?

The Wall Street Journal recently framed the challenge in stark terms. Utilities across the United States are preparing to invest roughly $1.4 trillion over the next five years as electricity demand accelerates, driven by artificial intelligence, hyperscale data centers, manufacturing, and electrification.

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Grid Intelligence
Park Intel Critical Infrastructure
Protecting America's Water Infrastructure
Critical Infrastructure
Protecting America's Water Infrastructure
Critical Infrastructure

For years, cybersecurity experts have warned that America's water and wastewater infrastructure represents one of the nation's most attractive targets for cyber adversaries. Last week's coordinated attacks against multiple water systems in Minnesota—and the subsequent reports of similar activity expanding to additional states—demonstrate that this threat is no longer theoretical. It has arrived.

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Critical Infrastructure
Grid Intelligence Phil Zalewski Grid Intelligence Phil Zalewski

The Next Megawatt May Already Exist

Northern Virginia has become one of the clearest illustrations of America's emerging power dilemma.

An NBC4 Washington report this week highlighted concerns that the extraordinary concentration of data centers across Northern Virginia is placing increasing strain on the region's electrical infrastructure, raising questions that now extend beyond electricity prices and economic development into grid resilience and national security.

The concern deserves attention. But the more consequential question is what we do about it.

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Grid Intelligence Phil Zalewski Grid Intelligence Phil Zalewski

The Capacity Hidden in Our Cities

The next great infrastructure opportunity may not be building more. It may be getting more from what we already have.

America is entering a new era of electricity demand.

AI. Data centers. Advanced manufacturing. Electrification. Economic development.

Each is creating enormous new requirements for power—often much faster than the infrastructure required to serve it can be planned, permitted and constructed.

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Grid Intelligence Phil Zalewski Grid Intelligence Phil Zalewski

The Grid Isn't Running Out of Power. It's Running Out of Time.

For years, the conversation around America's electrical grid has revolved around one question:

How do we build more power?

The Wall Street Journal recently framed the challenge in stark terms. Utilities across the United States are preparing to invest roughly $1.4 trillion over the next five years as electricity demand accelerates, driven by artificial intelligence, hyperscale data centers, manufacturing, and electrification.

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START HERE - FOUNDATIONS FOR EACH CHANNEL

  1. The Quantum Threat Isn’t Coming. It Has Already Started.

    The Quantum Threat - Explainer

  2. The Grid Isn’t Running Out of Power. It’s Running Out of Time.

    Grid Intelligence - Explainer

  3. Protecting America’s Water Infrastructure

    Critical Infrastructure - Explainer