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.
Matching carrier codes in military freight data, Rob Carpenter finds 82 groups of related codes that won more than half of eight months of loads. One one-truck California carrier was handed 24 loads on Sept. 28. Carpenter runs a freight-fraud investigations firm.
CrudeCode is an Apache-2.0 MCP server that lets Claude or ChatGPT query state well filings with guarded SQL and run decline forecasts, valuation and maps. The repo is small, with one maintainer. It is a working upstream tool, not a pitch.
For upstream engineers: query well data and run decline and NPV economics in plain language.