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Southern Co. Electricity Sales Soar On 42% Data Center Growth By Diana DiGangi of UtilityDive, The company has 28 large load projects representing 11 GW under contract, and Georgia Power’s first-quarter capital expenditures increased year over year from $1.6 billion to $2 billion. Southern Company reported 2.3% year-over-year growth in retail electricity sales across its utilities for the first quarter of this year, driven predominantly by data centers. Overall, data centers used 42% more power compared to the first quarter of 2025, according to company officials and Southern’s quarterly report to the Securities and Exchange...

Michael Saylor Responds To Scrutiny As Strategy Shares & STRC Hit 52-Week Lows Authored by Micah Zimmerman via BitcoinMagazine.com, Michael Saylor responded to the deepening selloff in Strategy’s stock and preferred shares Friday with a statement on X. “Volatility tests every capital structure,” Saylor wrote. “Strategy remains focused on Bitcoin, disciplined capital allocation, credit quality, and long-term value creation. We appreciate our investors and will continue to execute with transparency and resolve. $MSTR”. The tweet landed as MSTR shares and STRC, Strategy’s variable-rate perpetual preferred, both hit 52-week lows. MSTR has shed more than 80%...

Chinese Supertanker Sails Out Of Hormuz In Rare Exit As president Trump was on his way to China, a Chinese tanker appears to have exited the Strait of Hormuz as it sails toward an area where the US has enforced a blockade, ahead of talks between US President Donald Trump and counterpart Xi Jinping, Bloomberg reported today, citing ship-tracking data showing the VLCC moving south along the eastern side of the chokepoint. The supertanker which sailed past Iran’s Larak island, and into the Gulf of Oman, is Yuan Hua Hu, owned by Cosco, and...