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Data centers in the U.S. are using a lot more electricity, and that number is going up fast. Right now, they use about 5% of all the power in the country. By 2030, that could grow to more than 10%. …
Trump’s second-term data purge didn’t stop with the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In August 2025, he told the Congressional Budget Office to do a “methodology review,” which led three senior analysts to quit. Memos inside the CBO show the aim …
Wyoming’s new AI data center will consume five times more electricity than the entire state’s households combined. Yet no one knows who’s behind it. Located near Cheyenne, the facility will begin with a 1.8-gigawatt capacity and expand to 10 gigawatts …
Chuck Schumer criticized Trump’s August 1 tariff order but did not offer any policy alternative. “All Talk, No Substance”: Schumer torches Trump’s tariffs as August 1 deadline hits https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/30/trump-tariff-deadline-august-1-00483122 He called the new duties “an experiment in chaos, dishonesty and …
Authored by Kurt Cobb via OilPrice.com, U.S. transformer wait times have ballooned from 50 to 127 weeks, crippling grid resilience in the face of wildfires, storms, or attacks. The Build America, Buy America Act and global demand for transformers have …
Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes now wears a new label in Washington: sanctioned for human rights abuses. The U.S. government accuses him of abusing power to silence dissent, targeting Americans through secret court orders that pressured major social …
Data centers built to serve TikToks and ad targeting are quietly draining our grids. U.S. Energy Information Administration forecasts electricity use slicing through records, rising from 4,097 billion kWh in 2024 to 4,193 billion in 2025 and 4,283 billion in 2026, …
ChatGPT passed a CAPTCHA test today. Not by accident, not through a browser quirk, but by clicking straight through the “I’m not a robot” checkbox. It fooled a system designed to block bots, and it did it cleanly. This is …
Ukraine just lost €1.5 billion in EU aid. Not because of war. Not because of budget shortfalls. Because its government tried to gut the independence of its anti-corruption agencies. The European Commission confirmed the cut on July 25, 2025. Kyiv …
WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — Days after a transformer caught fire at a Pepco substation in Northwest D.C., hundreds of customers in the Dupont Circle neighborhood are still experiencing power outages. Shortly after midnight, on July 17, the D.C. Fire …
The claim that Russia secretly funded anti-nuclear environmental groups in Europe to make the EU more dependent on Russian gas might sound far fetched, but when you look at the results, Europe shutting down nuclear plants and scrambling for energy …
NEW: @SecKennedy rejects American involvement in W.H.O.'s pandemic response measures "Nations who accept the new regulations are signing over their power in health emergencies to an unelected, international organization that could order lockdowns" pic.twitter.com/zdiSqQEqmg — Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) July 18, …
Bass has no power over the federal government. — Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) July 11, 2025
by confoundedinterest17 It’s Gov’t Gone Wild! That includes The House, Senate, President and Federal Reserve. The purchasing power of the US Dollar was $1004.4 on 1915-03-01. By 2025-05-01, the purchasing power fell to $31.1, a loss of 97%. Public debt …
BREAKING – Democrats are planning a nationwide protest called “The People’s Sick Day,” where they plan to skip work and stop spending for three days to prove how “essential” they are. pic.twitter.com/ueqDI0bNL2 — Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) July 1, …
The Carnival Triumph set sail in February 2013 with 4,200 people on board. It was supposed to be a four-day round trip from Galveston to Cozumel. It turned into an eight-day floating disaster. A fire in the engine room knocked …
AI puts energy at center of tech war. Former $META CTO Mike Schroepfer says AI is turning energy access into a top boardroom issue—something that wasn’t even on the radar four years ago. Without cheap, reliable power, companies risk falling …
*I am not saying she was the only one. There surely were other "Neera Tandens" in on the Biden shadow presidency — Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) June 25, 2025 The real scandal is the unchecked power of unelected bureaucrats who operate …
*SWISS CENTRAL BANK CUTS KEY INTEREST RATE BY 25BPS TO 0.0%, LOWEST SINCE JUNE 2022$CHF 🇨🇭🇨🇭 pic.twitter.com/Ajfw639gAz — Investing.com (@Investingcom) June 19, 2025 Zero yields are back! For those who believed zero and negative interest rates were something of the …
by Martin Armstrong China has discovered a massive 1-million-ton thorium deposit valued at $178 billion that could potentially power the nation for the next 60,000 years. Thorium is a radioactive metal found in the Earth’s crust that is three times …
The sirens wailed. The sky lit up. And then came the silence. Not from the streets, but from the officials. While Israeli media trickled out reports of “a few dead,” the reality on the ground told a different story. Iran’s …
by David Haggith Over the past week, Japan has taught us a lot about what can happen when “Big Beautiful Bill Meets Beautiful Bond Market.” Bigger government spending wedded to a bond market where yields are already rising can become …
One of the oddest things in the House budget bill was cutting the private market incentives in energy markets. 81% of incremental power generation will be crippled by that single stroke of the pen. How do we compete in AI …
America is at high risk of blackouts because we decided to retire a bunch of power plants and replace them with solar and wind, right as demand for electricity started to rise. We are still on the same track as …
BREAKING: Rogue Communication Devices Found In Solar Power Inverters Manufactured By China, These Could Act As Remote Kill Devices.Further Undeclared Cellular Radios Have Also Been Found In Batteries Manufacted In China.They Could Be Used To Remotely Destroy The Devices! pic.twitter.com/S549eXkLfR …
#BREAKING Massive explosion reported at a power station in Karaj, in Iran pic.twitter.com/r17oAHSx9H — Conflict Radar (@Conflict_Radar) May 3, 2025 > UPDATE: A magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck 16 km southwest of Karaj, Iran tonight at a depth of 8 km. …
Things I’ve realised you need after a day without power: – cash– spare/full petrol in the car– gas powered stove/bbq– Starlink– portable power banks– solar-panel generator – canned food & drink– probably a weapon (after 48hrs) — Mando (@rektmando) April …
JUST IN – Portugal's grid operator blames a "rare atmospheric phenomenon" for widespread power outages — Sky — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) April 28, 2025 Portugal's electrical grid operator states that the widespread blackout affecting Portugal, Spain, and France resulted from a …
This is one of the most important charts I’ve seen in a long time. AI alone could drive electricity demand equivalent to adding another US economy in the next 5 years. Another point that’s probably flying under the radar: look …
