📑 Data as Uranium Bookmarked Data is not the new gold, data is the new uranium. Sometimes you can make money from it, but it can be radioactive, it's dangerous to store, has military uses, you generally don't want to concentrate it too much, and it's regulated. Why keep uranium you don't need? — Filippo Valsorda (@FiloSottile) August 16, 2019 It is interesting think about uranium alongside John Philpin’s suggestion that data is energy.