05.25
The Order Book Hits the Tape
The AI power buildout has moved from forecast to order book. The richest companies in the world are prepared to spend almost without limit. They have discovered that money cannot manufacture time.
Strait of hormuz × Permitting reform
Strait of Hormuz and permitting reform are linked by the urgency the closure was supposed to generate. Post 054 documents the failure: even with the Hormuz crisis at full intensity, the SPEED Act did not pass.
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3 citing both topics 04.19
AI Moves at the Speed of Steel
The ceasefire moved in days, oil moved in hours, and hyperscaler money moved in commitments. The physical system barely moved at all. Turbines, transformers, LNG trains, and grid connections were already the binding constraint; the blockade and the $630B hyperscaler pledge simply made that constraint visible to everyone at once.
04.09
The Workaround Becomes the Plan
A two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran briefly halted oil's upward march, but Europe's fuel shortages have already materialized. Meanwhile, Chevron's $7 billion commitment to build Microsoft a dedicated gas power plant signals that oil's future lies in feeding data centers, not traditional grids.