Trump Deploys Five Defense Production Act Memos For American Energy

Flock Blinks: Surveillance Giant Slashes Data Retention After 50 Jurisdictions Walk, Cams Destroyed Flock Safety, the startup that blanketed America in automated license plate readers (ALPRs), announced Thursday that it is dialing back its expansive platform. The company is significantly shortening its data retention windows, requiring police to justify every search, and allowing cities to block neighboring jurisdictions from querying their cameras for immigration enforcement. Not even (paid?) damage control by Bari Weiss' The Free Press could salvage the situation.  Today I found out that the person behind this pro-Flock propaganda piece...

Iran Tells Houthis To Close Red Sea Energy Chokepoint If Trump Bombs Power Grid Yemen's Houthis have long warned of their ability to close the Red Sea oil route, but have by and large stayed on the sidelines of the expanding Gulf regional conflict which is focused on Iran since Operation Epic Fury began. Things began changing dramatically this month, however, after Saudi warplane incursions into Yemen - which bombed Sanaa International Airport on July 13 - in an effort to prevent an Iranian commercial jet from landing there. via Marine Insight The...

Bring Your Own Power Plant: Goldman Now Sees Behind-The-Meter Powering 25% Of All Data Centers By 2030 For the past year we have been banging the same drum: if hyperscalers want to plug a city's worth of load into an already-strained grid, especially without being burned down to the ground by an angry mob after it has seen its electricity bill 10x in a year, they should bring their own power plant. And 'AI Power' has been tracking lower as the odds of a Democratic Party sweep in the MidTerms rises... Back...