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WindBorne WeatherMesh-6 Outperforms ECMWF — AI Weather Startup Runs Hourly 3 km Forecasts That Beat the European Government Gold Standard on Surface Temperature

techcrunch.com · 2026-06-01 · Score: 19

World's First Undersea Data Center Opens Off Shanghai, Powered by 95% Offshore Wind

newatlas.com · 2026-06-01 · Score: 19

Republican Voters in Texas Warn They Will Flip Democrat in 2026 Midterms Over AI Data Center Expansion

alternet.org · 2026-05-29 · Score: 21

Ohio Suspends Data Center Tax Exemption After AI-Driven Costs Balloon From $142M Projection to $1.6B — First State to Act Against Subsidy Blowout

apnews.com · 2026-05-28 · Score: 22

WSJ: Google Gets Subsidies, Indian Communities Lose Water — The AI Data Center Trade-Off Playing Out Across India

wsj.com · 2026-05-29 · Score: 17

TSMC Says Energy Use Is Now the Primary Constraint Reshaping AI Chip Design — 30% Power Reduction Targeted by A14 Generation

wtvbam.com · 2026-05-28 · Score: 22

'Hidden Datacentre Tax' Has Added Hundreds of Euros to Every Irish Household Electricity Bill, New Report Finds

theguardian.com · 2026-05-28 · Score: 17

New Hampshire Developer Withdraws AI Data Center Proposal Hours Before Packed Town Meeting Following 15,000-Signature Petition

nhpr.org · 2026-05-27 · Score: 16

arXiv 2605.27250: First Controlled Mechanosynthetic C₂ Donation to Patterned Silicon Surfaces Claimed as Foundational Step Toward Programmable Atomically Precise Manufacturing

arxiv.org · 2026-05-26 · Score: 15

xAI Is Running 50 Unregulated Natural Gas Turbines and Buying $2.8B More While Elon Musk Abandons Solar for AI Data Centers

techcrunch.com · 2026-05-23 · Score: 18

Millville, NJ Votes to Ban All Data Centers, Killing Largest Proposed Facility in New Jersey History at 2.6M Sq Ft and 1.4 GW Draw

businessinsider.com · 2026-05-20 · Score: 19

The Verge: Kevin O'Leary's 9-Gigawatt Utah Stratos Data Center Is Becoming a Massive Problem — Water Rights Flood, Heat Island Risk, and Community Backlash

theverge.com · 2026-05-20 · Score: 16

China's World's First Offshore Wind-Powered Underwater Data Center Enters Full Operation — 24MW, 2,000 GPU Servers, Seawater Cooling Off Shanghai Coast

tomshardware.com · 2026-05-18 · Score: 23

ALERT NextEra Energy to Acquire Dominion in $66.8B All-Stock Deal, Creating World's Largest Regulated Utility to Power AI Data Center Boom

cnbc.com · 2026-05-18 · Score: 35

ALERT PJM State of the Market Report: Wholesale Power Prices in Eastern U.S. Surged 76% Year-Over-Year in Q1 2026, Impact on 67 Million Customers Declared 'Significant and Irreversible'

gizmodo.com · 2026-05-15 · Score: 28

225 Pennsylvanians Pack Virtual Town Hall to Rail Against Data Center Boom, Demand Three-Year Statewide Moratorium

arstechnica.com · 2026-05-14 · Score: 20

Star Catcher Raises $65 Million to Build First Orbital Power Grid, Citing AI Data Center Energy Demand as Primary Driver

star-catcher.com · 2026-05-15 · Score: 17

GridCARE Raises $64M Series A From Sutter Hill Ventures and John Doerr to Unlock Idle Grid Power for AI Data Centers

bloomberg.com · 2026-05-14 · Score: 22

Fervo Energy Raises $1.89B in Nasdaq IPO Debut, Stock Pops 33% as AI Data Center Power Demand Fuels Geothermal Surge

techcrunch.com · 2026-05-13 · Score: 24

New Report: AI Data Centers Expanding Into Water-Stressed, Vulnerable Communities Across California — Ceres Calls for Urgent Regulatory Action

businesswire.com · 2026-05-14 · Score: 22

Bloomberg: AI Hyperscalers Move Beyond Existing Nuclear PPAs Into Next-Generation Gen IV and SMR Reactor Deals as Grid Capacity Falls Short of 2027–2030 Targets

bloomberg.com · 2026-05-13 · Score: 22

'It's Like We Don't Exist': Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe Residents Face Power Loss as Utility Redirects Lines to Data Centers

fortune.com · 2026-05-12 · Score: 23

Data Centers Now Consume 6% of Electricity Supply in UK and US, Research Finds — AI Drives 15% Global Surge in Two Years

theguardian.com · 2026-05-13 · Score: 21

CNN: Rural Utah Residents File Referendum to Block Kevin O'Leary-Backed 9-Gigawatt AI Data Center After County Approval

CNN · 2026-05-09 · Score: 22

TechCrunch: AI Data Center Construction Pushes PJM — the Largest US Power Grid — Past Its Limits, and No One Is Happy

techcrunch.com · 2026-05-08 · Score: 22

Bloomberg: Three Mile Island Nuclear Restart Moves Ahead on Microsoft AI Deal — Plant Now 80% Staffed, On Track for 2027 Return

bloomberg.com · 2026-05-07 · Score: 22

HN: 'AI Water Use Distractions and Lessons for California' — debunking AI water-use fears trends with 376 pts on May 1

news.ycombinator.com · 2026-05-01 · Score: 17

FT: Rural US communities push back as 67% of planned AI data centers target their towns

Financial Times · 2026-04-28 · Score: 19

Bloomberg: Arizona's AI data center boom under threat as Colorado River hits worst flows on record

Bloomberg · 2026-04-27 · Score: 20

Meta signs deal with Overview Energy for up to 1 GW of space-based solar power to fuel AI data centers

Bloomberg · 2026-04-27 · Score: 22

Amazon-backed X-Energy raises $1.02B in IPO, largest advanced nuclear market debut

Bloomberg · 2026-04-23 · Score: 22

SK Group signs MOUs with Vietnam to build AI data center ecosystem and 1,500 MW power plant

The Korea Times · 2026-04-24 · Score: 18

CNN: Fixes for AI's toll on the power grid exist but aren't being implemented

cnn.com · 2026-04-23 · Score: 18

Blue Energy raises $380M to build prefabricated nuclear reactors for AI data centers

TechCrunch · 2026-04-22 · Score: 24

General Compute launches ASIC-first inference cloud built for AI agents

OpenPR · 2026-04-18 · Score: 15

Newsletter Issues (10)

AI in Business: Anthropic at $900B as Meta funds AI by firing 8,000

2026-05-26 · 1 mentions

AI for Good: a phone that sees and hears for you — if you can pay

2026-05-21 · 11 mentions

AI in Education: the Class of 2026 is booing the keynote

2026-05-21 · 1 mentions

Frontier Research: reasoning is leaving the token stream

2026-05-21 · 1 mentions

Machine Learning: nobody trained bigger, everyone shrank the cache

2026-05-21 · 3 mentions

AI for Good: Africa just became the proving ground

2026-05-13 · 3 mentions

#492 AI slop : A $725B bet on what no one wanted

2026-05-13 · 3 mentions

AI for good: $60M in funding, $25B in externalities

2026-04-25 · 3 mentions

#461 Issue #461:

2026-01-21 · 4 mentions

#467 Issue #467: Anthropic has receipts. And nobody wants to pay for AI.

2026-02-26 · 1 mentions