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Tech & AI

Your Electricity Bill Is Subsidizing Someone Else's AI

Utilities filed $31 billion in rate increase requests in 2025, double the prior year, and Goldman Sachs is projecting a 6% consumer electricity price jump by 2027. The infrastructure enabling AI is being partially financed through your monthly bill. That is a policy choice, not an engineering constraint.

By Audrey Liang · 3 min read

Tech & AI

61% of These Layoffs Smell Like Balance Sheet Cleanup

Tech companies cut over 85,000 jobs in early 2026 and blamed AI for 61% of them. Some of that automation is real. Most of the framing is not.

By Devon Reyes · 3 min read

Tech & AI

The Voluntary Promise Worth $3.1 Billion to Ratepayers

Seven tech giants promised not to raise your electricity bill. The promise has no legal teeth, and ratepayers in seven eastern states are already facing $3.1 billion in grid expansion costs those same companies drove. A voluntary commitment and a binding permit condition are very different things.

By Audrey Liang · 3 min read

Finance

Amazon's $200 Billion Bet Is Not a Buying Opportunity. It's a Warning

Forty-four analysts rate Amazon a Strong Buy. Jeff Bezos sold $5.7 billion in shares last year. The company is about to go negative on free cash flow while depreciation from its $200B capex binge hasn't even fully hit. The dip isn't a gift. It's the market doing math.

By Ray Vega · 5 min read