The Federal Reserve named a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen to co-lead its new Productivity and Jobs task force on July 9, 2026, alongside a Stanford economist on leave at Anthropic and a Microsoft executive. Warsh and Andreessen are 30-year personal friends. The task force mandate: assess AI's
TeraWulf plans to raise $3.5 billion in leveraged loans and high-yield bonds to finance Anthropic's 401 MW Justified Data campus in Hawesville, Kentucky, locking up exactly the kind of brownfield, high-voltage site miners have historically targeted.
Meta announced July 8 it will build a C$13 billion AI data center in Alberta powered by a C$4.6 billion, 932 MW natural gas plant. The sustainable AI narrative didn't survive contact with the engineering.
From a small Missouri town to the Utah State Senate, voters are removing officials who approved multi-billion-dollar AI data center deals in secret. The ballot box is the only circuit breaker ordinary people have right now, and they're using it.
The Commerce Department's June 12 export control order on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models was reversed in under three weeks. The market shift it triggered may not be.
Anthropic embedded steganographic tracking logic inside Claude Code that silently altered system prompts to flag users in Chinese time zones or routing through Chinese AI labs. It ran undisclosed for roughly three months before a developer reverse-engineered it.
Galaxy Digital completed Phase I of its Helios data center campus on July 6, delivering 133 MW of critical IT load to CoreWeave under a 15-year lease. The former Bitcoin mining site, acquired from Argo Blockchain for $65M in late 2022, now anchors a $1B+ annual AI revenue stream.
TeraWulf signed a 20-year, ~$19 billion lease with Anthropic for its 401 MW Justified Data campus in Hawesville, Kentucky. The implied ~$950M/year contracted rate sets a new benchmark for what AI tenants will pay for dedicated power infrastructure, and it comes directly at the expense of Bitcoin
