Trump Stuns By Outright Dismissing Notion Putin Preparing To Attack A NATO State

Palantir, Flock, & Data Centers: The Battle Dividing The Right The political right spent much of the last decade united against Big Tech, government surveillance, and the unprecedented expansion of state power during COVID. But the rise of artificial intelligence has brought with it an urgent need for data centers, and firms like Palantir and Flock are providing government with increasingly sophisticated tools for mass-surveillance… severing the coalition that once simultaneously maintained the slogans “back the blue” and “don’t tread on me”. 7pm ET on the ZH home/X feed. Tonight, ZeroHedge Debates...

Tanker Owners Having The Best Week Of The Hormuz Crisis As VLCC Rates Soar By Julianne Geiger of OilPrice.com The Strait of Hormuz may be reopening, but don't tell tanker owners the crisis is over. They're making too much money. As Middle Eastern producers scramble to move crude that has spent months stranded in the Persian Gulf, tanker rates have exploded higher, turning a slow return to normal into a windfall for shipping companies. According to Reuters, the cost of hiring a tanker in the Gulf has nearly doubled in just a week, jumping...

Modular Reactors To Solve Data Center Hysteria? For the nuclear energy nerds, last night Erik Townsend joined ZH to host a panel with the founders of modular nuclear reactor startup Aalo Atomics, Matt Loszak and Yasir Arafat.  Townsend is a committed nuclear energy bull and has invested in many nuclear energy startups, his largest allocation being Aalo, a company that hopes to pump out small modular reactors on a mass scale to solve the rising energy costs that AI is rapidly ushering in. Here were some highlights from the panel for those...