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Power and Grids

AI data center power demand just hit 29.6 gigawatts — roughly what it takes to light the entire state of New York at peak

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

America’s largest grid operator just warned it has ‘years, not decades’ to restructure as AI devours power — the system serving 65 million bracing for shortfalls by 2027

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

Amazon just reserved an entire nuclear plant in Pennsylvania for the next 17 years — locking in 2 gigawatts to power its hungriest AI data centers

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

Three advanced U.S. reactors are racing to flip the switch before year-end — small modular plants built to quadruple the power pouring into the country’s AI server farms

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Forecasters say the southern Plains will reload with tornadoes, hail, and damaging wind by Friday — a second outbreak loading just as the holiday storms drain off

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

NOAA’s Atlantic hurricane season officially starts Monday — and forecasters are already watching the Eastern Pacific’s first tropical disturbance with days to go before naming

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

AccuWeather now forecasts 5.5 to 8 million acres will burn across the U.S. this year — one of the worst wildfire outlooks in a generation

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Semeru just sent gray ash plumes a kilometer into the sky over Indonesia — daily eruptions now drifting across villages with no sign of slowing

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Mayon’s pyroclastic flows are still racing 3.8 kilometers down the mountain — 290,000 Filipinos still sheltering as the eruption stretches into its longest run on record

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Drought now grips 61% of the country after the driest spring on record — stretching from California through the Rockies into the Plains as peak fire season looms

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A strong cold front will slam into the South behind the Memorial Day storms — knocking temperatures 20 degrees below normal deep into Texas and Louisiana

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Severe thunderstorms with damaging wind and large hail will rake the Missouri Valley and Siouxland tonight — forecasters warn the storms will reload across the Plains tomorrow

By Everett Sloane

Energy & Climate

Microsoft’s massive AI data center push just collided with its own clean-power goals — the company now burning through climate promises to keep servers online

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

The world’s biggest fusion reactor just got its 1,000-ton ‘beating heart’ — the U.S. just delivered the final piece of the magnet that will spark ITER into life

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Flash flooding will swamp the Memorial Day drive home from the Gulf Coast into the upper Ohio Valley — washing out highways across a dozen states

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A triple-digit heat dome is building over the Plains this week — Phoenix and Death Valley climbing back toward 115°F with dozens of daily records on the line

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The Western U.S. just logged its lowest snowpack in 40 years — and hydrologists warn Glen Canyon Dam could stop producing power before Christmas as Lake Powell drains

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The Memorial Day tornado threat just shifted east — forecasters warn strong twisters, baseball-size hail, and 80 mph winds will rake the Ohio Valley and Mid-Atlantic Tuesday

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Indonesia just sounded the alarm on one of its deadliest volcanoes — Awu is stirring again with fresh tremors, and tens of thousands live inside the blast zone

By Everett Sloane

Energy & Climate

Engineers just switched on a machine that pulls carbon straight from the sky and turns it to stone — a direct-air-capture plant now scaling up in Iceland

By Everett Sloane

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