Belgium paid €1,038 for power. For 15 minutes.

One thousand euros per megawatt-hour.

That's what it cost to buy power in Belgium on Wednesday night. Not for an hour. For fifteen minutes. The price hit €1,038 — an all-time record — as air conditioners strained a grid that was never built for this kind of heat.

France just logged its hottest day since records began in 1947. Temps in the southwest hit 44.3°C. That's 112°F.

Schools closed. Exams were postponed. Forty people drowned seeking relief in rivers and lakes.

And the cruel twist? The heat knocked out the very plants meant to keep the lights on.

EDF shut down reactors at two sites. Nogent-sur-Seine sits on the Seine. Bugey sits on the Rhône. Both rivers got too warm to cool the plants.

French law caps the temp of water that flows back into rivers. When river temps pass the limit, reactors generally power down — though emergency exceptions have been granted during past heat waves.

In total, France lost 4 GW of nuclear capacity this week. That's 6% of its entire fleet — gone — right when people needed it most.

Energy giants like Exxon and Chevron have been buying up land in America’s lithium hotspot. Now they’ve got a new neighbor. EnergyX just acquired 35,000 gross acres of high-grade lithium resources in the Smackover Formation, right next to Exxon and Chevron’s projects.

What’s really turning heads about this move is that EnergyX isn’t just competing for lithium-rich land. Their patented technology can extract up to 3X more lithium than traditional methods. That combination positions EnergyX to be one of the biggest lithium producers in America. Plus, General Motors has already invested along with other global leaders like Eni and POSCO.

Great timing too, because the demand for lithium is projected to grow 5X by 2040. You can claim a stake in the lithium boom too. 

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Now zoom out. Only about 20% of European homes have air conditioning. In Germany, it's 3%. In the UK, just 7%.

Compare that to the US, where 90% of homes have AC.

Europe is a continent that's still learning to cool itself. And every summer gets hotter. The IEA says global cooling demand will triple by 2050. That means millions of new AC units plugging into grids that already buckle in June.

The same week Belgium broke records, Germany's intraday market spiked to €615/MWh. Greece saw power demand jump 39% during extreme heat events. These aren't one-off numbers. They're a pattern.

The market tends to treat heat waves as weather. I treat them as demand signals. Cooling load is the fastest-growing slice of global electricity use. And grids — in Europe and in the US — are not built for what's coming.

In the US, the EIA says electricity demand has grown 2.1% a year over the past five years — after fifteen years of nearly flat consumption. Summer 2026 generation is forecast up 3% over last year. Layer the cooling surge on top of data center growth, and you see a grid under pressure on two fronts at once.

If you want to know where money flows next, follow the power lines. Right now, those lines are glowing red across Western Europe — and summer is just getting started.

The name is "Golden Dawn." That's what President Trump's team is calling America's new Manhattan Project — but for AI. It will span more than 700 miles — making it by far the largest AI infrastructure project ever built. When Trump flips the on switch, Louis Navellier believes it will trigger a $100 trillion reset of the AI markets. For investors who get ahead of it, the timing could mean everything.

Louis' revealing the one stock at the center of it all right here.

I pulled up a report from Data Center Watch this week. One line stopped me cold.

In the first three months of 2026, grassroots groups blocked or delayed 75 data center projects across the US. Total value: $130 billion. That roughly matches all of 2025 — in a single quarter.

The number of active opposition groups more than doubled to 833 across 49 states.

And it's not just yard signs and town halls anymore. It's law. Florida's Governor DeSantis signed SB 484 in May. The bill bars utilities from passing data center costs onto home and small-business power bills.

A Reuters/Ipsos survey in June found 57% of Americans would oppose a data center in their community. Just 14% said they'd be fine with one nearby.

Michigan alone has about 20 communities that have enacted or are weighing bans. Spokane, Washington, passed an emergency one-year moratorium just this week.

Most people are reading this as a political story. I read it as a supply story. Every project that dies or stalls makes the ones already built more valuable. Every blocked campus tightens the market for the campuses that got through.

Heat doesn't just push up demand. It cuts supply. It strains cooling. It melts margins.

The grids with the thinnest cushion are the same ones adding the most data center load. That's the risk no one is pricing correctly.

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