The AI Power Bill Is Coming Due, and It Is Not the Tech Giants Paying It
US gas plants built for data centers nearly doubled this year, with Texas alone developing more new gas capacity than any country on earth. Only 15 percent of Americans now welcome a data center nearby, and 500-plus jurisdictions have imposed bans. Yet the buildout keeps winning, and households from Alberta outward are the ones watching their power bills climb.
Read full story →'No DMV for AI': Washington Takes Its Anti-Regulation Pitch to the G20
At a G20 forum in North Carolina, US officials sold the "Carolina Principles," a hands-off framework, and warned that an FDA-style AI regulator would become "a DMV for AI." The jab landed on Anthropic, the one major lab that has publicly asked to be regulated. The subtext was a fight over who gets to set the rules, and who catches the failures.
Read full story →When AC/DC Plays, the Line Stops: What AI at Work Actually Looks Like
At a Georgia appliance plant, AI cameras halt the assembly line and blast AC/DC when they spot a defect. Pair that with an Australian Treasury forecast and a hiring manifesto, and a quieter truth emerges: AI's biggest effect on work so far is not mass replacement but a shift in what counts as skill, and it is landing very unevenly.
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