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Power and Grids

The lead time for a high-power grid transformer just stretched from 30 months to 5 years — bottlenecking every new AI data center trying to connect

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

PJM — the U.S. grid serving 65 million people — just warned it has ‘years, not decades’ to restructure as AI loads threaten the system

By Everett Sloane

Energy Transition

An iron-based catalyst just produced clean hydrogen without a trace of platinum — cutting the cost of the reaction that powers every hydrogen fuel cell

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The Sandy Fire is burning 184 acres in Simi Valley right now — crews battle a fast-moving brush fire as residents flee the drought-stricken hills

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The western U.S. snowpack just hit its lowest level since records began — and 10 western states just recorded their warmest October-to-April ever

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

NOAA drops the 2026 Atlantic hurricane outlook Thursday — forecasters already predict fewer named storms as a building El Niño suffocates the tropics

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The 2026 wildfire season has already burned 1.92 million acres across 26,568 fires — and peak season hasn’t even started

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The Northeast heat dome peaks today with records set to fall from Boston to Atlanta — rainfall deficits already hit 15 inches

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Strong tornadoes threaten Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa today — forecasters warn of baseball-size hail and 80 mph winds through the evening

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The Storm Prediction Center just issued a Level 3 enhanced tornado risk for 80 million people as the Plains outbreak stretches into a fifth day

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A tornado emergency just slammed Hebron, Nebraska — 1,700 residents trapped under a large confirmed tornado as the Plains outbreak builds into Monday

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A tornado watch just locked down southwestern Iowa until 11 PM as severe thunderstorms roll east at 50 mph toward Dodgeville

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The European climate models now show Super El Niño reaching +3°C above average by fall and +4.5°C in the eastern Pacific by November

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

The UK just committed £2 billion to quantum computing and £2.5 billion to nuclear fusion — a national bet on energy independence

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

Roughly 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents are about to lose 75% of their power as their utility reroutes lines to hungry AI data centers nearby

By Everett Sloane

Energy & Climate

Sightline Climate tracked 12 gigawatts of new AI data center capacity across 140 projects — and a 5-year backlog on transformers just killed half of it

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

PJM’s power capacity shortfall just hit 6 gigawatts for 2027 — enough to black out six mid-sized U.S. cities at peak demand

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

Commonwealth Fusion’s SPARC reactor is now 75% built in Massachusetts — Google and Eni have already signed power purchase agreements

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Power demand across the western U.S. is now tracking toward record-tying highs next week as the heat dome builds over the Plains

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The Drought Monitor now shows 62% of the United States sitting in drought as the driest spring since records began comes to a close

By Everett Sloane

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