The Daily Mine — Monday, February 23, 2026
The reckoning is here — and it's bipartisan. Seven states pushed back on data centers this week. SoftBank just announced the largest single energy investment
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The reckoning is here — and it's bipartisan. Seven states pushed back on data centers this week. SoftBank just announced the largest single energy investment
🔥 Top Stories SHADOW GRID: Silicon Valley building private power plants — walled off from the utility system... Washington Post ILLINOIS WAR: New bill would ban cost-shifting, force
🔥 Top Stories PRITZKER GOES NUCLEAR: Executive order to fast-track new reactors in Illinois... NBC Chicago TVA DUMPS RENEWABLES: Nation's largest public utility reverses course,
🔥 Top Stories DETHRONED? Texas poised to overtake Virginia as America's data center capital... Commercial Observer XAI FACES HEAT: Mississippi hearing as environmental lawsuits loom.
🔥 Top Stories 82 GIGAWATTS: MISO's data center forecast stuns grid planners... RTO Insider ERCOT SLAMS BRAKES: 232 GW queue overwhelms Texas... RTO Insider NY
🔥 Top Stories NAVARRO TO BIG TECH: Pay your own electric bill... CNBC SCHMIDT: 'We're running out of electricity'... Benzinga ILLINOIS FIGHTS BACK:
🔥 Top Stories NUCLEAR COMEBACK 'FINALLY HERE'... The Hill $11 BILLION: SunZia smashes financing record... The Cool Down TREASURY MOVES TO BLOCK CHINA from clean
🔥 Top Stories BIPARTISAN PUSH: Senators target utility bill hikes... NBC News PIVOT: Renewables giants embrace NATURAL GAS... Financial Times INDIANA: Officials push data center MORATORIUM... Data
🔥 Top Stories FREEZE REIGNITES GRID BRAWL ON CAPITOL HILL... E&E News EPA SHARPENS AXE FOR CLIMATE RULE MASSACRE... Politico HYDRO DISASTER: MASSACHUSETTS BET BACKFIRES.
🔥 Top Stories WHITE HOUSE EYES DATA CENTER PACT AMID 267% PRICE SPIKES... Politico FERMI AMERICA RECEIVES FIRST GAS TURBINES FOR 11GW TEXAS CAMPUS... Data Center Dynamics
🔥 Top Stories PJM FACES 60GW SHORTFALL: Grid operator warns decade of deficits ahead... Data Center Dynamics BUFFETT'S $58 BILLION BET: Energy empire revealed... Inc.
🔥 Top Stories AI SQUEEZE: The boom is so huge it's causing shortages everywhere else Washington Post — Supply chains strained as Big Tech gobbles up
🔥 Top Stories AMAZON DROPS $200 BILLION BOMB: Capex mostly for AWS data centers CNBC — Stock plunges 11%; Jassy says "not a quixotic top-line grab"
Top Stories MILLION IN THE DARK: Data centers guzzle power while families freeze... Fortune TVA DOUBLES DOWN: Data center demand to 2X by 2030, needs 6.
🔥 Top Stories TERAWULF SCORES: Buys old aluminum site for $200M data center... Data Center Dynamics GREENLINK WEST: 470-mile Nevada power line resumes... E&E News