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Texas Turns Data-Center Permits Into a Grid-Audit Gate

On September 21, 2026, Governor Greg Abbott directed the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to halt permits sought by data centers until ERCOT completes its audit. The order broadens Texas’s data-center slowdown from grid connections into environmental…

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Texas Turns AI Data Centers Into a Grid-Admission Audit

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott directed PUCT and ERCOT on August 3, 2026 to conduct a comprehensive verification and audit of data centers advancing through ERCOT’s interconnection process before those projects move forward. The order lands amid roughly 474 gigawatts…

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Goolsbee Turns AI Data Centers Into a Fed Reaction-Function Test

Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee said on September 21, 2026 that policymakers should watch whether AI data-center construction is spilling beyond its sector and pushing aggregate output above capacity. The significance is not that the Fed is targeting AI…

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Microsoft Turns Maia 300 Into a Multi-Gigawatt Inference Rail

Microsoft announced Maia 300 on October 12, 2026, saying Azure Maia will scale to multi-gigawatt deployments starting in 2027 and become the primary inference system for Microsoft products and services. The company says the system is aimed at long-context, la…

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Iran: Escalation Ladder — Reactivation Enabled

The Iran escalation ladder is active again. I examine the October strike risk, the infrastructure-war danger, rising tanker attacks alongside recovering exports, the Gulf defense response, financial isolation, current oil inventories and the Federal Reserve’s…

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