POWER, UNLIMITED POWER: AI in Wyoming may soon use more electricity than state’s human residents.

On Monday, Mayor Patrick Collins of Cheyenne, Wyoming, announced plans for an AI data center that would consume more electricity than all homes in the state combined, according to The Associated Press. The facility, a joint venture between energy infrastructure company Tallgrass and AI data center developer Crusoe, would start at 1.8 gigawatts and scale up to 10 gigawatts of power use.

The project’s energy demands are difficult to overstate for Wyoming, the least populous US state. The initial 1.8-gigawatt phase, consuming 15.8 terawatt-hours (TWh) annually, is more than five times the electricity used by every household in the state combined. That figure represents 91 percent of the 17.3 TWh currently consumed by all of Wyoming’s residential, commercial, and industrial sectors combined. At its full 10-gigawatt capacity, the proposed data center would consume 87.6 TWh of electricity annually—double the 43.2 TWh the entire state currently generates.

Because drawing this much power from the public grid is untenable, the project will rely on its own dedicated gas generation and renewable energy sources, according to Collins and company officials. However, this massive local demand for electricity—even if self-generated—represents a fundamental shift for a state that currently sends nearly 60 percent of its generated power to other states.

The AI boom feels increasingly like a bubble.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Starvation Is Kinda Cool, Ackshully.

SCIENCE! Frontiers to retract 122 articles, links thousands in other publishers’ journals to “unethical” network.

INCLUDING THE CHILDREN GROOMED AND GANG-RAPED BY MIGRANTS? British PM: We Censor Anti-Migrant Protests ‘For the Children.’

HARDBALL: Texas House Democrats are fundraising to potentially leave the state to block GOP-backed redistricting.

As Republicans in Texas move full steam ahead with a plan to redraw the state’s congressional districts, Democrats are privately mulling their options, including an expensive and legally dicey quorum break.

If they go that route, it appears they will have the backing of big-dollar Democratic donors.

By fleeing the state to deprive the Legislature of enough members to function, Democrats would each incur a fine of $500 per day and face the threat of arrest. Deep-pocketed donors within the party appear ready to cover these expenses, according to three people involved in the discussions.

The donors’ willingness to foot the bill eliminates a major deterrent to walking out — the personal financial cost — and could embolden Democrats who might otherwise hesitate.

Stay tuned…

WOKENESS MUST BE SHOT WITH A SILVER BULLET, HAVE A STAKE DRIVEN THROUGH ITS HEART, THE ANCIENT SPELL GIVING IT ETERNAL LIFE UNDONE, SET ABLAZE, AND ITS ASHES CAST INTO THE WINDS: ‘Sexual Minorities’ and ‘Lavender Orientation’: Universities Double Down on Wokeness.

DIG, BABY, DIG: Elon Musk’s Boring Company to build Tesla tunnels under Nashville.

The Boring Company, Elon Musk’s tunnel-digging company, and Tennessee Governor Bill Lee have announced a plan to build a 10-mile “loop” that will connect Nashville’s downtown and its convention center to the area’s airport.

The project will be privately funded by The Boring Company “and its private partners,” according to the Governor’s press release, though those partners are not named. The Boring Company and local officials will now begin a “public process to evaluate potential routes, engage community stakeholders, and finalize plans for the project’s initial 10-mile phase.”

Construction won’t begin until the project clears the approvals process. But the governor’s office said the first segment of the loop could be operational as “early as fall of 2026.”

If that happens, Nashville would become the second city where The Boring Company has opened such a system, with the first being Las Vegas. The company has spent the last few years in Sin City digging and opening tunnels around the Las Vegas Convention Center, and claims to have given 3 million rides in Teslas to date.

All this tunneling is just well-paid practice for Mars.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Now Playing in a Congress Near You — Dem Kabuki Crazy Theater. “Today we’re looking at Sen. Cory ‘Hey, a Camera!’ Booker — aka New Jersey’s lousiest performance artist. Not one to let assigned gender roles slow him down, Booker is determined to crack the Prosecco Ceiling and become one of the Democratic Party’s mean girls.”

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Researchers quietly planned a test to dim sunlight. They wanted to ‘avoid scaring’ the public.

A team of researchers in California drew notoriety last year with an aborted experiment on a retired aircraft carrier that sought to test a machine for creating clouds.  

But behind the scenes, they were planning a much larger and potentially riskier study of salt-water-spraying equipment that could eventually be used to dim the sun’s rays — a multimillion-dollar project aimed at producing clouds over a stretch of ocean larger than Puerto Rico.

The details outlined in funding requests, emails, texts and other records obtained by POLITICO’s E&E News raise new questions about a secretive billionaire-backed initiative that oversaw last year’s brief solar geoengineering experiment on the San Francisco Bay.

They also offer a rare glimpse into the vast scope of research aimed at finding ways to counter the Earth’s warming, work that has often occurred outside public view.

Same people always blathering on about “saving our democracy” from Trump, right?

ICYMI: Israel Might Annex Gaza… All Because of France?

WELL, GOOD: Huckabee says there’s ‘no break’ between US and Israel following Trump Gaza comments.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee pushed back on the idea that President Donald Trump has broken with Israel’s government in calling out the humanitarian crisis in Gaza on Tuesday, adding that he remains close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“Let me assure you that there is no break between the prime minister of Israel and the president,” Huckabee said in a Tuesday interview with Fox News. “Their relationship, I think, [is] stronger than it’s ever been, and I think the relationship between the U.S. and Israel is as strong as it’s ever been.”

The comments come after Trump said Monday that there is “real starvation” in Gaza, contradicting Netanyahu’s denial of a hunger crisis in the war-torn region. A United Nations-backed report warned this week that a “worst-case scenario of famine” is playing out in Gaza.

Earlier this month, Netanyahu said there was “no daylight” between his government and the Trump administration, praising Trump for the recent U.S. military’s bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites.

Trump and Netanyahu are doing what must be done to restore some semblance of peace to the Middle East, while politically correct fools in London and Paris work to undo to it by recognizing Palestine.

DAVID MANNEY: You Can’t Cancel Me for Being White. “I’m just a short, butt-ugly man who looks like the people I see in old black-and-white photos.”

HMM: There was no “missing minute” in Epstein jail video, government source says. “What is unclear is why that section was missing when the FBI released what it said was raw footage from inside the Special Housing Unit the night Epstein died, Aug. 9-10, 2019. The recording came from what officials said was the only relevant video camera that was recording its footage in the unit. This video has been cited by multiple government officials as a key piece of evidence in the determination that Epstein died by suicide.”

GENOCIDE, STRAIGHT UP: Islamic Massacre Devastates Congolese Catholic Church.

THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN A HEADLINE THREE YEARS AGO, BUT I’LL TAKE WHAT I CAN GET: Navy Seeks New Fast Attack Surface Drone Design.

HERE’S SOME CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN: Trump Administration Prepared to Topple Another Pillar of Obama’s Legacy. “The most significant deregulatory action in U.S. history.”

NOT SO GREAT, BRITAIN:

Imagine my shock: the police who were helping to cover up the grooming gangs were also r*ping the victims too.

The entire edifice of the state in Britain has been weaponised against the British people. https://t.co/JNLNJhUnM9

— RAW EGG NATIONALIST (@Babygravy9) July 29, 2025

WHAT MIGHT THEY LEARN NEXT? Blue City Discovers Enforcing Laws and Prosecuting Criminals Actually Work. “In 2022, Mosby’s last year in office, Baltimore saw 334 homicides across the city. The next year, under Bates’s watch, that number dropped to 262. In 2024, it dropped further to 202 homicides. And during the first half of 2025, Baltimore saw just 68 homicides, a 62 percent drop from the same timeframe in 2022. Auto thefts are also down 34 percent, robberies are down 22 percent, and arson is down 10 percent in Baltimore so far in 2025 compared to the same timeframe last year.”

THIS IS CNN: We’re Learning More About the NYC Shooter, but That Didn’t Stop CNN From Calling Him ‘Possibly White.’

I HAD BEEN ASSURED THIS WAS JUST A PARANOID RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY THEORY: New York could become first state to ban natural gas hook-ups. “New York has moved a step closer to becoming the first state in the nation to ban natural gas connections in new homes and buildings, after a federal judge on Wednesday rejected a challenge to the controversial law.”

THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES REIGNS SUPREME: Israel Might Annex Gaza… All Because of France?

THE NEW SPACE RACE: A secretive space plane is set to launch and test quantum navigation technology.

There are two active X-37Bs in the Space Force fleet, both built by Boeing. The first made its debut flight in April 2010. Since then, the two uncrewed spacecraft have made a succession of longer flights. The first made its longest and latest flight from 2020 to 2022 over a span of 908 days. The second flew more recently, landing at Vandenberg Space Force Base on March 7 after 434 days in orbit.

It’s likely that the first of these two vehicles, both of which are about 29 feet (9 meters) long and roughly one-quarter the length of one of NASA’s Space Shuttle orbiters, will launch next month.

Over the past decade and a half, the Space Force has largely remained silent about the purpose of this space plane, flying classified payloads and providing only limited information about the purpose of each flight.

However, for this flight, OTV-8, the military has provided a bit more detail about its intentions. The vehicle will fly with a service module that will expand its capacity for experiments, allowing the space plane to host payload for the Air Force Research Laboratory and the Defense Innovation Unit.

The mission’s goals include tests of “high-bandwidth inter-satellite laser communications technologies.”

“OTV-8’s laser communications demonstration will mark an important step in the US Space Force’s ability to leverage commercial space networks as part of proliferated, diversified, and redundant space architectures,” said US Space Force Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman in a statement. “In so doing, it will strengthen the resilience, reliability, adaptability, and data transport speeds of our satellite communications architectures.”

Meanwhile: China adds new satellites to Guowang constellation, eyes accelerated launch rate.

GOOD: DOJ, FBI Shut Down Disgusting Websites That Attracted Hundreds of Thousands.

YOU GOTTA PUMP THOSE NUMBERS UP, THOSE ARE ROOKIE NUMBERS: Ron DeSantis: At Least 100 Detainees at Alligator Alcatraz Have Been ‘Fully Deported.’

DeSantis has continued to champion the quick work of the Florida Division of Emergency Management which transformed the existing Miami-Dade Collier Training Facility in the Florida Everglades into a deportation hub to house and process migrants illegally residing in the country. The governor previously said that deportations were already underway, noting that most of the individuals housed at the facility are military-aged males.

“These are folks — and a lot of them have of criminal records. But that’s what’s happening here, and I think it’s been very effective now,” he said.

DeSantis has since confirmed that 100 individuals who were processed and housed at the facility “have fully been deported,” noting that the Department of Homeland Security is largely handling the departures for deportation.

“There’s an aggressive… deportation schedule,” DeSantis said. “That’s what you’re seeing is starting to occur here down at Alligator Alcatraz.”

Faster, please.

AARON HANSCOM IS BACK: Nightmare in America’s Cities. “The system should be working to bring justice to victims like Cecilia and her family. Instead, Caldwell says, it too often seems to be helping the criminals. Is that just an exaggeration? Well, consider the SAFE-T Act in Illinois, which eliminated cash bail throughout the state.”