J.D. Capelouto's election-night thread mapped local bans, project votes and recalls aimed at data centers across about 40 localities in 13 states. It drew about 1.03M views and 2,200 bookmarks as races were called. Pair it with the Latitude and DCD tallies: siting is now decided at the county level.
YC-backed CaladhTech, founded by a former DARPA maritime technologist, is building electronic-warfare buoys to jam hostile naval drones and sensor-cloaking technology meant to hide undersea cables and pipelines. The company has published few specs so far. Protecting subsea energy and data links is becoming its own hardware market.
A breakdown of IREN's own site list puts 2,750 MW in Texas: Childress at 750 MW for Microsoft delivery and Sweetwater at 2,000 MW, with the 1.4 GW Sweetwater 1 substation already energized. The post framed it against the midterm selloff in Texas data-center stocks. The figures come from a company site list read by an investor account, so check them against IREN filings.
Gecko Robotics unveiled Raptor, a wall-climbing robot that uses sensors and sound waves to find structural faults without taking assets offline, and it is deploying across ADNOC sites. Gecko says it runs 3 to 5 times faster than its last robot, and the CEO claims a 50x cut in inspection data cost, a company figure. After the Gulf attacks, the pitch is how fast an operator can prove a damaged asset is safe to restart.
