AI Is Now Hungry Enough to Keep the Coal Plants Burning
On Monday the EPA scrapped the rules meant to force power plants to cut carbon, days after federal scientists confirmed the hottest US summer on record. The stated reason was climate denial, but the real driver is simpler: data centers could soon eat 11 percent of US electricity, and AI runs around the clock. Fossil fuels, written off a few years ago, are suddenly back in demand.
Read full story →AI Is Everywhere. The Productivity Numbers Still Can't Find It.
A trillion dollars is being spent on the promise of an AI productivity leap, yet this week's research keeps failing to see it. Adoption is broad but shallow, the median firm spends $12 per employee a month, and rigorously measured gains keep shrinking. The lesson buried underneath: AI is not plug and play.
Read full story →Companies Are Handing AI the Keys. The Guardrails Are on Back Order.
Enterprise AI is shifting from answering questions to taking actions, from Adobe's document agents to agentic factory ERP that drafts its own purchase orders. But 87 percent of firms now encourage agents while nearly half report one taking an unapproved action, and error rates can top 25 percent. The unanswered question: who owns the outcome when the agent is wrong?
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