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Ofgem has proposed a financial commitment and delivery milestones for large data-centre projects seeking grid connections. The consultation is a concrete attempt to distinguish viable projects from speculative claims on capacity; it is not yet a decision, and it cannot by itself create more electricity or settle the argument over where data centres should go.
Follow the thread →A federal judge has ruled that the Pentagon unlawfully used a supply-chain-risk designation against Anthropic after the company resisted some military uses of Claude. The decision restores limits on one designation, but it does not settle the wider dispute over military AI or require the Pentagon to resume work with Anthropic.
Follow the thread →A reported expansion of US semiconductor tariffs would move the policy question from chips to the servers and devices built around them. The administration’s published policy already links tariff treatment to domestic capacity; whether a broader measure will be adopted, and what it would cover, remains unresolved.
Follow the thread →The first £9.58bn of England’s new social-housing programme does more than fund homes. It changes how councils can combine grant, Right to Buy receipts, planning contributions and local capacity — while leaving the delivery test unresolved.
Follow the thread →US cities seeking climate-resilience money can hire the same federal lobby firms that represent fossil-fuel interests. The documented overlap is not proof of wrongdoing — but it exposes a public-procurement blind spot.
Follow the thread →AEMO’s data-centre forecast is turning private compute demand into a public question about renewable supply, water, household bills and who gets to set the rules.
Follow the thread →The EU’s transparency rules now reach chatbots and synthetic media. The bigger question is whether legal disclosure becomes a shared layer of the internet — or a patchwork users cannot trust.
Follow the thread →The Strait’s disruption is already moving through energy, shipping and farm inputs. The evidence points to a delayed food-security risk — not yet a proven worldwide food-price crisis.
Follow the thread →An Iran-linked cyberattack reportedly took a small UK generator offline for four days. The wider system was not threatened — but the response exposes the resilience problem created by a more distributed energy network.
Follow the thread →How a drilling debate becomes a story about political identity, climate risk and the price of getting around.
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