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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%. “Forecasts show that data center energy demand will grow from 5% of total US power …
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 was to make deficit numbers match White House growth claims. At the same time, the …
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 more than five times the power used by every home in Wyoming. “The initial 1.8-gigawatt …
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 inflation” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jul/31/donald-trump-tariffs-trade-canada-palestine-us-politics-live-news-updates Trump’s order levies 40% tariffs on transshipped goods and 10% on goods from …
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 limited supply, with domestic production covering only 20% of needs. Experts warn that the grid …
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 media companies to ban voices critical of the regime. His judicial overreach includes authorizing pre-trial …
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, largely due to AI data center growth https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/data-center-demand-push-us-power-use-record-highs-2025-26-eia-says-2025-06-10/. In 2023 data centers consumed 4.4 % of …
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 not just a party trick. If bots can pass human tests, the web’s default defenses …
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 had requested €4.5 billion. Brussels approved €3.05 billion. The missing €1.5 billion is now frozen. …
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 and EMS Department was dispatched to the Pepco substation in the 2140 N St. NW …
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 while buying Russian gas, it starts to make a disturbing kind of sense. And it …
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, 2025 The United States has officially rejected a WHO agreement aimed at improving global pandemic …
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 since the last year of GW Bush, Obama/Biden (with a brief hiatus with Trump) rose …
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, 2025
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 out power. That killed propulsion, refrigeration, air conditioning, and every toilet on the ship. The …
AI puts energy at center of tech war. Former $META CTO Mike Schroepfer says AI is turning energy access into a top boardroom issue—something that wasn’t even on the radar four years ago. Without cheap, reliable power, companies risk falling behind on AI compute. He sees this as a catalyst for the next wave of… …
*I am not saying she was the only one. There surely were other "Neera Tandens" in on the Biden shadow presidency — Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) June 25, 2025 The real scandal is the unchecked power of unelected bureaucrats who operate in the shadows, dictating policy without accountability. Tanden’s influence under Biden epitomizes the swamp Trump …
*SWISS CENTRAL BANK CUTS KEY INTEREST RATE BY 25BPS TO 0.0%, LOWEST SINCE JUNE 2022$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 past. It already happened again, even without a new economic or financial crisis. The Swiss …
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 as common as uranium. One ton of thorium can produce as much energy as 200 …
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 latest missile barrage didn’t just rattle windows. It cracked the narrative. In Haifa, the power …
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 a big, ugly marriage. An article on Quoth the Raven by that title says, GOP opponents of …
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 and compete against China? They have an abundance of… pic.twitter.com/QOALsBwLum — Chamath Palihapitiya (@chamath) May …
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 Western Europe, just a bit behind. pic.twitter.com/PediUBTWPk — Russ Greene (@GreenPlusAnE) May 15, 2025 A …
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 — John Basham (@JohnBasham) May 15, 2025 Rogue communication devices found in Chinese solar inverters …
#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. It is unclear if the quake is connected to the reported explosion.#Breaking #Iran #Karaj #Earthquake …
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 28, 2025
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 malfunction in Spain's electricity grid, triggered by an unusual atmospheric event. pic.twitter.com/lqqEK3o8Gr — Ian Miles …
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 at the gap between the US and China. If onshoring… pic.twitter.com/c83AhCBcW5 — Otavio (Tavi) Costa …
