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Bureau: London
The DOE order that kept data centers off the grid expired July 3; the only surviving instrument is FERC's August 17 show-cause deadline, and data centers still carry no permanent obligation.
EU deployed four water-bombing planes from the record 2026 air fleet; 19,000 hectares burned anyway and 10,000 residents are evacuating — the fleet's first real containment test has arrived.
Data centers drove 63% of PJM's record $329/MW-day capacity price; ratepayers across 13 states started paying $1.4 billion more in June — the household bill is the receipt.
Illinois stopped new data-center tax subsidies July 1 — the same facilities whose load drove $13 billion in extra PJM energy costs — after the POWER Act failed to pass.
ITIF says state disclosure laws can fix the data-center water problem; its own math shows direct disclosure would leave 92 percent of water use unreported.
CDC says open windows at night to beat heat; EPA says close them to beat smoke — a compound hazard that makes federal guidance on both threats simultaneously wrong for Arizona residents.
MSM ran memorial coverage and moved on; the Snyder Fire still burns at 28,000 acres in a heat wave, and the burnover that killed three federal firefighters has no public explanation.