Satellite feeds this week showed a fresh plume of orange over a Saudi oil refinery and a second blaze licking the roof of an Amazon Web Services campus in the Middle East. The images arrived alongside a press release …

The SpaceX plant is intended to power xAI’s Colossus clusters, yet the company disclosed that existing turbines—installed without permits—will remain for “many more months.” The delay means the data centre’s carbon fo…

SpaceX’s involvement in data centre power is not new; the firm has long supplied launch‑site electricity. This time, the contractor is building a dedicated plant for xAI, the AI venture co‑founded by Elon Musk. The pl…

The decision to keep the turbines mirrors the 1973 oil shock, when governments kept outdated refineries online to avoid sudden supply gaps. In both cases, short‑term continuity trumped long‑term compliance, creating a…