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74 Gas Plants Being Built Right Now — None of Them for You

Jul 16, 2026

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74 Gas Plants Being Built Right Now — None of Them for You

Together they'd release as much greenhouse gas as all of Australia does in a year.

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Machines just beat homes on the grid — for the first time

Jul 15, 2026

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Machines just beat homes on the grid — for the first time

The EIA's July forecast made it official. Data centers pushed commercial past residential in 2026.

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Google's power use is up 250% since 2019

Jul 14, 2026

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Google's power use is up 250% since 2019

One company. A 37% jump in a single year. Grid planners didn't build for this. Runner-up: Option 5 ($725B).

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AI servers burned 175 TWh this year. Up 84% in 12 months.

Jul 13, 2026

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AI servers burned 175 TWh this year. Up 84% in 12 months.

Regular servers grew 1%. Same building. Two very different machines.

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86 GW of new power. The crunch isn't fading.

Jul 10, 2026

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86 GW of new power. The crunch isn't fading.

Battery storage is doubling — 15 GW last year, 24 GW this year — but AI campuses keep landing in the same few zip codes.

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Machines just passed homes in power use. First time ever.

Jul 9, 2026

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Machines just passed homes in power use. First time ever.

The EIA's July report puts it in plain numbers: commercial at 1,550 billion kWh, homes at 1,508 billion kWh in 2026.

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Amazon Is Crossing the Line This Quarter

Jul 21, 2026

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Amazon Is Crossing the Line This Quarter

Hyperscalers put 33 cents of every earned dollar into AI in 2023. J.P. Morgan says that number is 93 cents today.

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Gas Turbine Prices Tripled Since 2019. The Waitlist Runs Past 2030.

Jul 20, 2026

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Gas Turbine Prices Tripled Since 2019. The Waitlist Runs Past 2030.

The fuel is still $3 per MMBtu. The machine that burns it now costs $2,157 per kilowatt to build.

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NextEra Just Paid a 23% Premium to Buy Dominion

Jul 17, 2026

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NextEra Just Paid a 23% Premium to Buy Dominion

Inside the $67B all-stock deal that just filed to become the world's largest utility — and the $2.25B headed back to customers.

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