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Big Tech Pushes Back On Paying For A Grid That Was Crumbling Long Before AI
Big Tech Pushes Back On Paying For A Grid That Was Crumbling Long Before AI
When Big Tech signed President Trump's Ratepayer Protection Pledge in March, promising to pay for all the new grid infrastructure upgrades required to service their data centers, we cautioned that "voluntary pledges from trillion-dollar tech giants have a habit of evolving."
Seven months later, the hyperscalers are pushing back on how much of the grid's bill is theirs to pay.
The past week brought a Democratic Senate report and a North Carolina utility settlement, and FERC is...
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Jul 26, 2026 / Tyler Durden
US One-Way Attack Drone Found Adrift In Hormuz Offers New Look At Western Capabilities
US One-Way Attack Drone Found Adrift In Hormuz Offers New Look At Western Capabilities
A suspected US-made LUCAS one-way attack drone was reportedly recovered by fishermen after it was found drifting in the Strait of Hormuz in recent days. The discovery comes as US forces have expanded their use of the Iranian-style drone during the multi-month conflict, even publicizing a recent swarm attack involving explosive-laden unmanned boats against Iranian targets.
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عثر صيادون إيرانيون على طائرة مسيّرة أمريكية من طراز لوكاس (LUCAS) في مياه الخليج، بعد العثور عليها طافية، وقد سحبوها...
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Sep 17, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Waste Of The Day: Medicare Paid For Wrong Organs
Waste Of The Day: Medicare Paid For Wrong Organs
Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations,
Medicare spent an estimated $380 million acquiring human organs that were either transplanted into patients without Medicare or never transplanted at all, according to a new Department of Health and Human Services inspector general audit.
Key facts: Medicare reimburses hospitals for removing kidneys, hearts, lungs and other organs from donors after they die. Federal law says Medicare should only bear those costs when the organ is used in a Medicare-covered transplant.
But decades-old Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
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Sep 21, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Saudi Arabia Reroutes Oil Exports As Houthi Strikes Target Yanbu
Saudi Arabia Reroutes Oil Exports As Houthi Strikes Target Yanbu
Satellite images gathered by Bloomberg show supertankers with capacity for 14 million barrels at Saudi Arabia's Gulf export terminals over the weekend, the highest tanker count observed since at least June, according to data compiled from the European Union's Sentinel-2 satellite.
Source: Javier BlasHowever, as OilPrice notes, overall Hormuz traffic kept falling over the same weekend, nonetheless. Just a dozen commodity vessels crossed the strait, down from 35 a week earlier, and Thursday's crossings totaled four tankers against a 10-day moving average of...
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