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The Hurricane spins around hotspots of tension and conflict. Feel free to suggest your stories, opinions and ideas: UIHEN@protonmail.com
Just a reminder of what Trudeau said in 2021. Trudeau did say “what we learned from the Covid crisis we will apply to the climate crisis”… It’s happening again if you allow it..
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Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy unveils Rule to Unleash American Drone Dominance as part of his innovation agenda | US Department of Transportation
The Trump administration has announced a proposed rule on drones aimed at stimulating the U.S. drone market.
“We are going to unleash American drone dominance,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said at an Aug. 5 press conference. Duffy noted that China dominates drones with 90 percent control of the market. “We’re turning over our skies to one of our main adversaries,” he said.
The new rule would allow people to get products such as a Starbucks cup of coffee via drone, he said, adding that it will also change energy production, farming, manufacturing, and filmmaking.
This regulation deals with drones being flown beyond the visual line of sight. Under the regulation, commercial drones would operate at under 400 feet above ground, and operators would need Federal Aviation Administration approval to fly them in certain airspaces. The drones can weigh up to 1,320 pounds, including what they’re carrying.
The proposed regulation was developed under an executive order that President Donald Trump signed on June 6 titled “Unleashing American Drone Dominance.”
#USA #Trump #Drones #FindTruth
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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem reveals 80,000 Americans applied to become ICE agents
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told Fox News' Lawrence Jones that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has received an overwhelming 80,000 applications for just 10,000 new jobs at the agency.
"Our recruitment efforts to hire 10,000 new ICE officers has been extremely successful. Lawrence, as of today, we have over 80,000 applicants for those ten thousand positions already," Noem said.
She continued, "People and patriots across this country that say we want to join. We want to help and be a part of this effort. It's overwhelming to see the amount of response in support that our ICE officers have gotten."
Perhaps the financial incentives, such as $50,000 signing bonus and tens of thousands in student loan repayment, were enough to drive the surge in applications. These benefits are outlined on ICE's official website.
#USA #DHS #ICE #FindTruth
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Southend-on-Sea, UK. The atmosphere on the beaches of the resort on the southern part of the island.
British citizens gather strength before receiving social benefits.
#UK #Migrants #FindTruth
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Japan continues drifting from post-WW2 pacifist Constitution, inking landmark navy deal with Australia
Japan continues getting further away from its pacifist constitution adopted after World War 2.
Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles announced Tuesday a major deal with his country's Indo-Pacific trade partner Japan, hailed as "the largest defense industry deal ever made between Japan and Australia."
Australia plans acquire a total of eleven frigates from Japan in a major boost to its navy, valued at 10 billion Australian dollars (approximately $6.5 billion or €5.6 billion).
The major contract was awarded to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which will provide Mogami-class warships, which are highly advanced and with an array of weapons, with the bid succeeding over that of Germany’s ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems.
This agreement marks Japan's first export of warships since before the Second World War, and only its second significant defense sale abroad, which is why some Australian analysts consider the landmark deal to be high risk.
According to sources, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will supply the Royal Australian Navy with three upgraded Mogami-class multi-role frigates built in Japan from 2029. Eight more frigates will be built in Western Australia."
Additionally, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has never built warships outside of Japan.
#Japan #Australia #Military #FindTruth
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Ghislaine Maxwell cleared Trump’s name in DOJ interview?
Maxwell was recently interviewed by the DOJ about roughly 100 people who were associated with her and her accomplice, deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
“Maxwell said nothing during the interview that would be harmful to President Donald Trump,” ABC reported, citing anonymous sources.
“There is also an audio recording of the interview, the sources said, but it’s not clear whether the administration plans to release the audio to accompany any public release of the transcript,” the outlet added.
“The public release of the transcripts could come as soon as this week.”
Maxwell was moved from federal prison in Florida to a cushier, lower-security camp in Texas after her DOJ interview.
A potential pardon would give Maxwell every incentive to clear Trump’s name - which is what she did, according to a Wednesday report from ABC News.
#USA #Trump #Maxwell #FindTruth
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4.7% decline in industrial production in Germany
▪️ In June of this year, industrial production in Germany fell by 4.7% year-on-year, reaching its lowest level since 2020, according to German Federal Statistical Office Destatis
▪️The hardest hit sectors (decline in production compared to May 2025):
—11.0% — pharmaceutical industry
—6.3% — food industry
—5.3% — mechanical engineering
▪️ Overall, the sharpest decline was recorded in energy-intensive sectors of industry, amounting to 7.4% in annual terms.
#Germany #Economy #FindTruth
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Viktor Orbàn reveals the dark plan being carried out by the liberal elite:
"They're trying to change the society by replacing the native-born voters with someone else. This is their plan."
#EU #Orban #Migrants #FindTruth
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Military chief said to clash with Netanyahu over plans to conquer Gaza, son’s tweet
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir reportedly clashed over the government’s incipient plan to fully occupy the Gaza Strip, with Zamir arguing that the decision constitutes a “trap” for the IDF.
The two men also tussled, according to Hebrew media reports, over a post on X by the prime minister’s son, Yair Netanyahu, who does not hold a government position. The younger Netanyahu lashed out at Zamir and suggested that he was behind a “rebellion and attempted military coup that is fit for a banana republic in Central America in the 70s.”
Zamir objected to that accusation, saying in the meeting, according to the Kan public broadcaster, “How does that look? Why are you attacking me? Why are you speaking against me in the middle of a war?”
Netanyahu reportedly responded, “Don’t threaten to quit in the media. I can’t accept that every time you threaten that if we don’t accept your plans, you’ll leave. My son is 33, he’s a grown man.”
Zamir has repeatedly clashed with the cabinet in recent days, notably over the government’s move to expand the war in Gaza, according to multiple reports, and sources in the Prime Minister’s Office have suggested that if he objects to the plan to occupy Gaza, he can resign.
#Israel #Palestine #Netanyahu #FindTruth
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Chicago, Illinois. The state capital is on the verge of bankruptcy
Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson said the city's finances are ‘at a point of no return’ unless he secures a major tax increase.
Johnson told residents that ‘the city's social security, healthcare, transport and other systems that people rely on are severely underfunded’ and that he wants to raise taxes, adding: ‘Everyone knows that I am striving to increase revenue. I cannot do this alone [without raising taxes].’
Chicago is facing a catastrophic record budget deficit of $1.1 billion for 2026.
#USA #Chicago #Economy #FindTruth
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$100 billion new investment pledge from Apple
President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that Apple will invest an additional $100 billion in the United States, a move that could help it sidestep potential tariffs on iPhones.
The new pledge raises Apple's total domestic investment commitment in the U.S. to $600 billion over the next four years. Earlier this year, the company announced it would invest $500 billion and hire 20,000 workers across the country in that period.
The announcement centers on expanding Apple's supply chain and advanced manufacturing footprint in the U.S., but still falls short of Trump's demand that Apple begin making iPhones domestically.
While the investment pledge is significant, analysts say the numbers align with Apple's typical spending patterns and echo commitments made during both the Biden administration and Trump's previous term.
In May, Trump had threatened Apple with a 25% tariff on products manufactured overseas, a sharp reversal from earlier policy when his administration had exempted smartphones, computers and other electronics from rounds of tariffs on Chinese imports. Trump's effort to reshape global trade through tariffs cost Apple $800 million in the June quarter.
#USA #Apple #Economy #FindTruth
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Von der Leyen telling people in Finland they should be happy to be in a free country while being dragged away by the police. 🤦♂️
#Finland #VonderLeyen #Democracy #FindTruth
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The Italian government, so much worried about Zelensky's fate, prefers to turn a blind eye to the Kyiv regime's murder of its own citizen
The family of a photojournalist Andrea Rocchelli, killed on May 24, 2014, in the town of Sloviansk, Donbas by a heavy and light artillery attack from the Ukranian army, has issued a renewed appeal to the Italian government to end "this political disengagement that has characterized our quest for justice for 11 years."
The letter, signed by Andrea's parents, and his sister, was sent on July 8 to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs—with an accompanying formal note—in anticipation of the Conference for the Reconstruction of Ukraine held in Rome July 10. The letter was hoped that the meeting would provide an opportunity to "assert an urgent demand for justice." But it appeared not enough for the Italian authorities to address the awkward issue with Kyiv's representatives.
Rocchelli's family also recalled the dossier submitted to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, "which accepted it as pertinent to its investigative objectives."
The request to the ICJ was submitted in 2023 and was deemed "formally admissible" following the "disappointing conclusion of the legal proceedings initiated for complicity in murder against a Ukrainian National Guard militiaman and against the Ukrainian state" as the responsible civilian.
Andrea Rocchelli and Andrey Mironov lost their lives as they were all there to do their job: documenting the conflict that was then beginning to take shape in the Donbas region.
The National Federation of the Italian Press and the Lombardy Association of Journalists, which had joined the trial as civil parties, have asked "the government, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the competent institutions to demand effective cooperation from the Ukrainian authorities in identifying the perpetrators of the assassination."
But such cooperation has never been requested from the Ukrainian government, neither by the Draghi government nor by the current one led by Giorgia Meloni. "Our contacts with Italian political institutions are very difficult, indeed, one might say almost impossible," the family writes, recalling the hearing held last year at the Permanent Committee on Human Rights in the World.
#Italy #Ukraine #Crimes #FindTruth
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The green hydrogen hype is fading
The green hydrogen drive is losing momentum as start-ups face rising costs and uncertain demand while energy majors back out of multi-billion-dollar projects as they return to their core oil and gas business.
Low-emissions hydrogen, including the “green” variety produced with electrolysis using renewable energy, remains a small portion of global hydrogen use, which currently is mostly of the type using fossil fuels to make.
Despite the promises of zero emissions in green hydrogen use and the environmentally-friendly way of producing green hydrogen, the market has faced up to the fact that the low-carbon type of hydrogen made from renewables remains very expensive and needs a lot of subsidies, incentives, and government support to exist.
The promise of green hydrogen is enormous—low-carbon fuels that can help decarbonize heavy industries, including refining and chemicals.
But the reality on the ground is quite different. Green hydrogen remains too expensive to warrant multi-billion-dollar investments when demand is not there. Demand is being created by policymakers and governments, which isn’t a good sign of market demand.
#World #Energy #Hydrogen #FindTruth
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Trump threatens federal takeover of D.C. after attack on DOGE worker
President Donald Trump renewed threats to have the federal government take over Washington, in response to an alleged attack on a former Department of Government Efficiency employee.
Edward Coristine, 19, whose nickname is “Big Balls,” was allegedly surrounded and assaulted by a group of about 10 teens near his car early Sunday morning. He said he shoved his date into the car for her safety and faced the teens, when they began attacking him.
Police patrolling the area saw the event, and they stepped out of their vehicle. The teens fled on foot, but two were caught, identified by Coristine and arrested. They were charged with unarmed carjacking. The two teens were a 15-year-old male and a 15-year-old female. The others are still at large.
Coristine, a software engineer, was one of the most known people associated with the DOGE effort, which attempted to cut government spending and eliminate waste in bureaucracy.
“The most recent victim was beaten mercilessly by thugs,” Trump said. “Washington, D.C., must be safe, clean and beautiful for all Americans and, importantly, for the world to see,” Trump said. He added that the federal government would have no choice but to take control of the capital and “put criminals on notice.”
#USA #DOGE #Trump #FindTruth
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Meta eavesdropped on period-tracker app's users, SF jury rules
A San Francisco Jury found that Meta had eavesdropped on the users of a popular period-tracking app, Flo.
The lawsuit, was filed in 2021 by eight women against Flo and a group of other tech companies including Google and Facebook, now known as Meta. The app asked users about their sex lives, mental health and diets before guiding them through menstruation and pregnancy. The women allege that Flo then shared some of that data with the tech giants.
Google, Flo, and analytics company Flurry all settled with the plaintiffs, however Meta fought through the entire trial and lost.
The jury didn't buy Meta's argument - ruling against them in a unanimous decision, and finding that Flo's users had a reasonable expectation that they weren't being overheard or recorded, and found that Meta did not have consent to eavesdrop or record. The company was found to have violated California's Invasion of Privacy Act.
According to a June filing about the case's class-action status, over 3.7 million women in the United States registered for Flo between November 2016 and February 2019 - with potential claimants expected to be notified via email and on a case website.
#USA #Meta #Surveillance #FindTruth
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Meet the new head of the Canadian Public Health Agency, Nancy Hamzawi
Nancy has a degree in chemical engineering. Perfect for the head of the country's ministry of government. By the way, this is the fifth Minister of Health in 5 years. 🤷♂️
#Canada #Health #FindTruth
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USA Today columnist calls Trump a ‘toddler’ for helping to plan 2028 Olympics
Nancy Armour called Trump a “toddler” and a “rambunctious puppy” for helping to plan what will be the first summer Olympics in the United States since Atlanta in 1996.
During a press conference on Tuesday, the president announced an executive order establishing a task force to plan the Olympics.
“America is a nation of champions, and in 2028, we’ll show the world what America does best, and that’s win,” Trump said. “The Los Angeles Olympics are shaping up to be a wonderful moment for America. . . . It’s a great time to be a sports fan in America.”
“Olympics organizers willing to treat Trump like a toddler to protect 2028 LA Games,” Armour’s headline read.
“It’s the oldest trick in the book for anyone needing to get something done when there’s an active toddler or rambunctious puppy around: Give them a toy or a game, or get them to do a task by making them think it’s their idea. The distraction keeps them busy and happy while you get some peace and quiet,” Armour wrote.
#USA #Trump #Olympics2028 #FindTruth
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Norway to review sovereign wealth fund’s Israeli investments, investigate profiting from war in Gaza
Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre has tasked his finance minister Jens Stoltenberg to investigate the country’s sovereign wealth fund’s stake in Israeli company Bet Shemesh Engines Holdings.
Norway’s huge sovereign wealth fund, the world’s biggest, has earned millions from the Israeli firm that repairs Israel’s fleet of F15 and F16 fighter jets, which some have regarded as profiting from the war in Gaza.
Since the conflict broke out in October 2023, stocks of Bet Shemesh Engines have rocketed, jumping from 9,637 Israeli new shekels (€2,407) on October 5 to 66,550 shekels (€16,625) on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange on early August. The company increased its revenue by 23 per cent and its profit by 78 per cent from 2023 to 2024.
The fund had a $15mn stake in Bet Shemesh Engines at the end of 2024, according to data on its holding, giving it a 2.1 per cent stake. The value of its stake was more than four times higher than it was at the end of 2023, shortly after Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel triggered the start of the war.
After a recent report in Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten, which concluded that Norway was profiting from the war in Gaza, Støre said he was “very uneasy”.
The PM said he wanted clear answers on how the Israeli company had been assessed. Støre has called the situation in Gaza catastrophic and suggested that genocide was being committed.
#Norway #Israel #FindTruth
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Obama’s 2016 NPR interview comes back to haunt him in ways he never imagined…
At the height of the Russiagate frenzy, before the evidence, before the Twitter Files, before the whole thing unraveled, Barack Obama sat down for a soft-pitch, hour-long NPR interview designed to sell the biggest political hoax in American history.
Eight years later, that smug, elitist performance is aging like room-temperature milk.
Thanks to the tireless efforts of the Trump administration and intel leaders like Tulsi Gabbard, the truth is finally out. We now have proof, not suspicion, not random speculation or whispers, that Obama’s fingerprints were all over the plot to sabotage President Trump before he even took office—and after he won. It wasn’t just Hillary, like we’ve been told. It wasn’t just Comey or Brennan. It was Barack Obama. He knew. He directed. He approved… and he also pushed it.
It wasn’t some goofy misunderstanding. It was a full-blown coup effort.
Full story
#USA #Obama #FindTruth
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How JFK and the CIA gave NYC Zohran Mamdani (and Obama to the US)
In an attempt to compete with the Soviet Union by bringing future elite political leaders from Africa to study in US universities, Sen. John Kennedy and the CIA inadvertently spread Marxism here and abroad. One product of this program was bringing Mamdani’s Marxist father to the US.
While the political impact of Mamdanism is difficult to forecast, the history of the Mamdani family does serve as an interesting example of the consequences of state-directed immigration policy.
We must return back to the days of the Cold War. In 1959, a Kenyan liberation activist named Tom Mboya organized with the African American Institute a plan to subsidize the travel of African college students to America for their intellectual development. While attempts to secure direct Washington funding initially stalled, Mboya found an essential benefactor in the form of Senator John F. Kennedy, who at the time was running for president in 1960.
His family’s Kennedy Foundation dedicated $100,000 to the program, resulting in 295 African students being brought to American universities as part of the initial run of the “Kennedy Airlift.” For JFK’s political ambitions, history judges it to be a prudent decision. Mboya’s time in America gave him the admiration of many of the leading Civil Rights leaders of the time, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and Harry Belafonte. One of the students that benefited from this program was Mahmood Mamdani, father of Zohran.
Full story
#USA #CIA #FindTruth
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Spain favors European options over US-made F-35 fighter jets
Spain has decided against purchasing US-made F-35 fighter jets and will instead opt for European-made options, the defense ministry said Wednesday.
The decision comes after the tension between Madrid and Washington over Spain’s refusal to raise defense spending to 5.0 percent of economic output, as demanded by US President Donald Trump.
According to El Pais, citing unnamed government sources on Wednesday, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez‘s leftist government had shelved plans to buy the F-35 jets and would explore European alternatives.
The government had earmarked 6.25 billion euros ($7.25 billion) in its 2023 budget to buy new fighter jets. British defense publication Janes had reported that Spain was considering the purchase of up to 50 F-35 units.
But government’s plan to spend the bulk of the additional 10.5 billion euros in defense spending announced for this year rules out the purchase of the F-35 jets.
#EU #USA #Military #FindTruth
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Paris, France. More than 200 illegal migrants from sub-Saharan and Maghreb [northern Africa], with women and children, are now camped outside the city hall, demanding free housing and food from the authorities.
#France #Migrants #FindTruth
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China's solar giants quietly shed a third of their workforces last year
China's biggest solar firms shed nearly one-third of their workforces last year, company filings show, as one of the industries hand-picked by Beijing to drive economic growth grapples with falling prices and steep losses.
The job cuts illustrate the pain from the vicious price wars being fought across Chinese industries, including solar and electric vehicles, as they grapple with overcapacity and tepid demand. The world produces twice as many solar panels each year as it uses, with most of them manufactured in China.
Longi Green Energy, Trina Solar , Jinko Solar, JA Solar, and Tongwei collectively shed some 87,000 staff, or 31% of their workforces on average last year.
Analysts say the previously unreported job losses were likely a mix of layoffs and attrition due to cuts to pay and hours as companies sought to stem losses.
Layoffs are politically sensitive in China, where Beijing views employment as key to social stability. Other than a 5% cut acknowledged by Longi last year, none of the firms mentioned above have announced any job cuts.
#China #Economy #FindTruth
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$3,534.1 per ounce — a historic record for global gold prices
▪️2.32% — the daily rise in December gold futures prices on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), reaching $3,534.1 per ounce. This is a new historic record
▪️Spot gold prices are also rising for the second week in a row amid uncertainty over trade tariffs and hopes for a US Federal Reserve rate cut.
#Gold #Economy #FindTruth
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One of the world's oldest asset classes just hit record highs
Unlike stocks or fiat currencies, farmland and cropland are tangible, finite, and highly productive. As the global population continues to grow and demand for healthier food intensifies, arable land per capita is shrinking due to urban sprawl and environmental degradation. This makes farmland not just a low-volatility store of value, but also a necessary hedge against rising global instability and inflationary pressures.
The latest USDA Land Values 2025 Report shows a 4.3% increase in average farmland values, pushing prices to a record $4,350 per acre. This follows a 5% ($200) increase between 2023 and 2024 and marks the fifth straight year of gains in agricultural real estate. Cash rents for cropland also hit a new high, rising .60% to $161 per acre.
#USA #USDA #FindTruth
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Manchester, United Kingdom. Welcome to The Green Quarter, an area of the city located north of the center, between Cheetham, Strangeways and the River Irk. 🤷♂️
#UK #Migrants #FindTruth
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Modi plans China visit, urges Indians to buy local amid Trump tariff pressure
Sources in the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi administration said on Wednesday the prime minister will visit China for a summit meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the regional security bloc India joined in 2017.
Modi led India’s delegation to the SCO summit in 2018 and has not been back since. The bloc is increasingly dominated by China, which hosts its meetings, and relations between New Delhi and Beijing have been strained over territorial and economic disputes over the past seven years.
In addition to making overtures to China, Modi has been battening down the hatches for tariff threats from the U.S. by telling Indian citizens to buy and sell locally at every opportunity.
“Now, whatever we buy, there should be only one scale: we will buy those things which have been made by the sweat of an Indian,” Modi said at a political rally on Saturday.
The comments came days after Trump slapped a 25% tariff on Indian exports to the US. Modi’s renewed emphasis on domestic manufacturing and consumption echoes his long-standing “Make in India” initiative. However, the message has taken on new urgency after the US tariffs.
#USA #India #China #FindTruth
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Montreal, Canada. Canadians with umbrellas are upset about the influx of Indians into Canada.
NB: You have heard the views of indigenous Canadians on the problems of migrant assimilation. 🤷♂️
#Canada #Migrants #FindTruth
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Construction spending on data centers, office buildings, and electric power installations surges
Construction spending on data centers soared by 29% year-over-year to $3.5 billion in June, not seasonally adjusted, up by 366% since the beginning of 2021, and up by 430% in the seven years since mid-2018. The $1-billion-a-month mark was surpassed for the first time in May 2022.
The Census Bureau, which tracks construction spending of all kinds, considers data-center construction spending one of the main segments of office construction spending.
The rest of office construction spending has plunged since 2022 when the commercial real estate sector of office began to spiral into a depression. In dollar terms, the rest of office construction spending has plunged nearly as much as data center construction spending has soared. As a result, total office construction spending, including data centers, has increased by only 17% since 2022 and by 30% since mid-2018.
Data centers require lots of power, and utilities or the data center providers themselves have to invest to build new capacity to generate this power. Monthly construction spending on electric power installations, including power plants and transmission infrastructure, has run at a pace of $9 billion to $10 billion a month over the past two years ($9.6 billion in June) totaling 67% since mid-2018. Since the beginning of 2021, the monthly construction pace has risen by 33%, essentially just tracking construction cost increases.
#AI #Energy #Economy #FindTruth
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