Ukrainian Drone Attack on Moscow Kills at Least Three Russian Civilians

The US Grid Wasn't Built For This Authored by Tejasri Gururaj via Interesting Engineering, Global data center power demand is projected to hit 84 GW by 2027—a 50 percent jump from 2023 levels—with AI workloads accounting for 27 percent of that total, according to Goldman Sachs Research. The grid is strained by increasing demand from electricity-hungry data centers and electric vehicles.Getty Images The grid cannot keep up with AI. For decades, electricity demand grew slowly and predictably, giving utilities comfortable margins to plan capacity years in advance. That model broke almost overnight. Between 2023...

Software Vendor Fires Back At NJ Governor Over Noncitizen Voting Scandal New Jersey's noncitizen voter registration scandal has taken an uncomfortable turn for Gov. Mikie Sherrill, and the vendor she blamed for it is no longer taking the fall quietly. IDEMIA, the French multinational that has worked with New Jersey's Motor Vehicle Commission for more than 40 years, is refusing to play the role assigned to it. What the company is now saying about who was responsible for approving registrations undercuts the governor's account. A voter arrives at the Moorestown Township Fire...

Japanic: Yen Suddenly Spikes Stoking Intervention Speculation Having collapsed to its weakest relative to the dollar in 40 years, it appears the Ministry of Finance and Bank of Japan has had enough and intervened. Having tagged 164/USD, the Japanese currency suddenly exploded stronger (below 160/USD, which was the prior level of intervention)... The scale of the move is commensurate with the last large intervention in April. Obviously, there is no confirmation, yet, but the timing, coming after the Fed and after Japan markets have closed, would certainly fit what we know about the...