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    Georgia regulators approve 50% power capacity boost, betting that massive AI data center demand will eventually materialize

    Georgia regulators approve 50% power capacity boost, betting that massive AI data center demand will eventually materialize

    “If in 10 years, the AI bubble bursts or the data centers move to a cheaper state, then the roommate moves out, but the mortgage doesn’t go away.”

    By Jeff Amy and The Associated Press
    December 21, 2025

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    Trump orders blockade of all ‘sanctioned oil tankers’ into Venezuela

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    A grassroots NIMBY revolt is turning voters in Republican strongholds against the AI data-center boom

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    Everything the Trump administration is doing in Venezuela involves oil and regime change—even if the White House won’t admit it

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    Coca-Cola names 30-year veteran Henrique Braun as new CEO

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
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    In race to end China’s chokehold on critical minerals, the U.S. needs all the friends it can get

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    Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, pictured in May 2023, warns of record debt issuance by AI companies during an infrastructure boom.
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    Borrowing by AI companies represents a ‘mounting potential threat to the financial system,’ top economist says 

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    Google Cloud CEO lays out 3-part strategy to meet AI’s energy demands, after identifying it as ‘the most problematic thing’
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    Google Cloud CEO lays out 3-part strategy to meet AI’s energy demands, after identifying it as ‘the most problematic thing’

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    ‘You have an entire culture, an entire community that is also having that same crisis’: Colorado coal town looks anxiously to the future

    By Brittany Peterson, Jennifer McDermott and The Associated Press
    December 6, 2025
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    The rise of AI reasoning models comes with a big energy tradeoff

    By Rachel Metz, Dina Bass and Bloomberg
    December 5, 2025
    Construction workers are getting a salary bump for working on data center projects during the AI boom.
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    Construction workers are earning up to 30% more and some are nabbing six-figure salaries in the data center boom

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    Four years ago, BKV started buying up the two Temple power plants in Texas—located between Austin and Dallas—which now total 1.5 gigawatts of electricity generation capacity—enough to power more than 1.1 million homes, or a major data center campus. There is room to expand.
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    How a Texas gas producer plans to exploit the ‘megatrend’ of power plants for AI hyperscalers

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    December 5, 2025
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    Meta’s Zuckerberg plans deep cuts for metaverse efforts

    By Kurt Wagner and Bloomberg
    December 4, 2025
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    I built the first iPhone with Steve Jobs. The AI industry is at risk of repeating an early smartphone mistake

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    By Thalia Beaty and The Associated Press
    December 4, 2025
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    By Katherine Doherty, Isis Almeida, Sagarika Jaisinghani, Lynn Doan and Bloomberg
    November 30, 2025
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    By Renata Carlos Daou and Bloomberg
    November 30, 2025
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    November 28, 2025
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    Mark Carney says Canada’s trading relationship with the U.S. was ‘once a strength,’ but ‘now a weakness’

    By Rob Gillies and The Associated Press
    November 27, 2025
    Why an ASEAN power grid is key to tapping Southeast Asia’s green potential
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    Why an ASEAN power grid is key to tapping Southeast Asia’s green potential

    By Yew-Poh Mak and Philip Rao
    November 26, 2025
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    Newsom, DeSantis join forces to blast ‘idiotic’ push to allow oil drilling off coasts of California, Florida

    By Matthew Daly, Matthew Brown and The Associated Press
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    By Kate Payne and The Associated Press
    November 22, 2025
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    By Josh Funk, Rio Yamat and The Associated Press
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    By Josh Boak and The Associated Press
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    Some consumers are paying to power data centers that don’t exist yet while states ask if demand forecasts are real — ‘Nobody really knows’
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    Some consumers are paying to power data centers that don’t exist yet while states ask if demand forecasts are real — ‘Nobody really knows’

    By Marc Levy and The Associated Press
    November 16, 2025

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