Aggregator

San Francisco voters are set to weigh in on Measures C and D, two competing proposals on the June 2 ballot that would radically reshape the city’s business tax system.

Bynes debuted another bold eyebrow look earlier this month.

Bynes debuted another bold eyebrow look earlier this month.

Johnson and East, who wed in 2018, are parents to three kids: Drew, Jett and Barrett.

Johnson and East, who wed in 2018, are parents to three kids: Drew, Jett and Barrett.

Scottie Scheffler is getting the kind of treatment from oddsmakers that has almost exclusively been reserved for Tiger Woods.

Joe Burrow has high expectations for the Bengals in 2026. 

“We want to ensure that every New Yorker in this borough feels safe and is safe because we know that perception is different from reality.”

Largest US Electric Grid Gets Approval To Curtail Data Centers During Hot Weather

By Ethan Howland of Utility Dive

Power plant and transmission owners often take their facilities offline in the spring for maintenance so they are prepared for the summer, PJM noted. The largest US electricity grid operator said it expected power plants totaling more than 40 GW would be offline for planned outages on May 18.

An Amazon Web Services data center in Stone Ridge, Va. The PJM Interconnection will be able to curtail data centers and other large loads that have backup generation under an emergency order issued May 18, 2026, by the U.S. Department of Energy

“The projected level of generation outages coupled with the forecasted demand raises a significant risk of emergency conditions that could jeopardize electric reliability and public safety,” PJM said.

The curtailments would be a last resort before ordering rolling blackouts, according to the DOE’s order, issued under the Federal Power Act’s section 202(c). Only large energy consumers with backup generation would be affected.

“The employment of this backup generation is expected to reduce stress on the grid,” the DOE said. “This will permit orderly, safe, and secure operations during PJM’s hot weather conditions.”

Next summer the Eastern seaboard will look like North Korea at night thanks to chatbots pic.twitter.com/NEY97pa1LB

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) May 6, 2026

There are significant amounts of backup generation in the United States that have remained largely untapped during grid emergencies, according to the DOE.

“Deployment of backup generation resources (whether auxiliary, standby, directly-connected, battery storage or other, and whether synchronized or not to the bulk power system) at data centers (including, but not limited to, hyperscaler facilities), and at other large load industrial and commercial customer sites, can prevent avoidable blackouts, thereby saving lives and reducing costs to the American people,” the department said.

In January, the DOE issued similar emergency orders to PJM, Duke Energy Carolinas and Duke Energy Progress, and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas.

PJM said on Monday that it had issued “maximum generation” and “load management” alerts for May 19, with a “hot weather” alert in place for most of the PJM footprint.

Also, the grid operator activated demand response customers in parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Dominion regions. The grid operator said it called on pre-emergency demand response for the Baltimore Gas and Electric, Dominion and Potomac Electric Power Co. areas on Monday to address local transmission constraints and to preserve the run-time of generators that will be needed for the hot weather and higher electricity demand expected on Tuesday and Wednesday.

For three days starting on Tuesday, PJM expected its peak load to hit 134,027 MW, 135,961 MW and 119,103 MW.

Tyler Durden Wed, 05/20/2026 - 17:40

The MTA bungled routine garage repair work so badly the agency now has to fork over an additional half a million dollars and accept a one year delay.

Suns out, buns out.

The former Chicago Sky player, 28, sent the internet into a frenzy Monday when she teased that she would be dropping a link on X.

The former Chicago Sky player, 28, sent the internet into a frenzy Monday when she teased that she would be dropping a link on X.

Nemesis has spun way, way out.

Soros Fueling Opposition To Texas Data Center Expansion: Report

A new investigation has connected Wall Street billionaire and Democrat megadonor George Soros to a national progressive network of activist groups opposing data center expansion in Texas.

The Dallas Express reported that Open Society Foundations, founded and funded by Soros, has provided more than $7.6 million to the national Indivisible Project since 2017, including a two-year $3 million grant in 2023. Indivisible Centex, the local Bell County chapter of the national Indivisible network, has been active in opposing data center projects in Temple, Texas.

Indivisible Centex reportedly held a “week of action” in late April against data center projects in Temple. Activities included a “Protest & Petition” event at Temple City Hall on April 24, efforts to recall city council members who supported the projects, and a virtual Zoom event on April 27 titled “Thirsty for Power: When Data Centers Drain Our Water.”

The protests come amid significant data center expansion in the area.

Rowan broke ground earlier this year on Project Temple, a 300-megawatt hyperscale campus on roughly 700 acres with a minimum investment of $700 million, and is developing additional phases in the area. Separately, Meta has been building its own large data center campus in Temple since 2022. The Temple City Council's April vote to annex and rezone about 700 acres along Bob White Road for the Rowan project drew opposition from residents concerned about water use, electricity demand, and infrastructure strain, concerns that prompted a separate group, Stop the Temple Data Center, to launch a recall effort against the mayor and two council members.

Soros and friends, being agents of chaos and whatnot, are fueling the early stages of a “Luddite revolution” against data center expansion. Since mid-2025, the site has warned that exploding residential electricity bills, limited local job gains, and public unease over AI’s societal impacts would spark organized backlash, predicting protests and even infrastructure attacks within a year. Reports document a sharp escalation in resistance, with billions in projects delayed or blocked nationwide amid concerns over power demand, water use, and grid strain.

between exploding electricity bills and lack of jobs for grads, a new luddite revolution is coming - they will be burning down data centers within a year

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) August 25, 2025

In Texas and beyond, this resistance blends genuine local grievances with coordinated national campaigns. ZeroHedge and others note that such opposition—often amplified by activist networks—mirrors past efforts against energy infrastructure and risks slowing U.S. AI competitiveness, even as hyperscale builds like those in Temple proceed amid the pushback.

American Energy Institute CEO Jason Isaac blasted the efforts and called for greater scrutiny of activist funding.

“The protests outside Temple City Hall are being marketed as a local uprising,” Isaac said. “Indivisible Centex is a chapter of a national organization that has received more than $7 million from George Soros’s Open Society Foundations since 2017. Indivisible is part of a broader network of groups that, according to an American Energy Institute report, have received more than $39 million from foreign donors in Switzerland, Britain, and Denmark. These groups are now pushing Congress to impose a national moratorium on data center construction.”

“This follows the same pattern previously used against pipelines, refineries, and LNG terminals, now targeting the growing power demand from AI, advanced manufacturing, and reshored industry," Isaac added. "Texas leads the country in data center investment due to its abundant, affordable, and reliable power, along with a regulatory environment that supports private property and free enterprise.”

Tyler Durden Wed, 05/20/2026 - 17:30

See all the stars at the world premiere.

See all the stars at the world premiere.

Knicks coach Mike Brown is leaning on lessons from his Warriors’ days to methodically take advantage of James Harden. After the Knicks pulled off a stunning 115-104 overtime win over the Cavaliers in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals on Tuesday, erasing a historic 22-point fourth-quarter deficit, Brown revealed the blueprint behind New York’s...

Gocaj fell into an uncovered manhole after parking her SUV along East 52nd Street near Fifth Avenue.

The video shows thick smoke swallowing the neighborhood as powerful winds whipped flames dangerously close to homes while residents raced to escape.