RyanJLane/E+ via Getty Images Anthropic ( ANTHRO ) said it will cover electricity price increases that consumers face from its data centers, amid the Trump administration's efforts to ensure that household electricity prices do not spike. Anthropic — which is backed by Amazon ( AMZN ) and Alphabet's ( GOOG ) ( GOOGL ) Google — said it will cover grid infrastructure costs. The AI startup noted that...
RyanJLane/E+ via Getty Images Anthropic ( ANTHRO ) said it will cover electricity price increases that consumers face from its data centers, amid the Trump administration's efforts to ensure that household electricity prices do not spike. Anthropic — which is backed by Amazon ( AMZN ) and Alphabet's ( GOOG ) ( GOOGL ) Google — said it will cover grid infrastructure costs. The AI startup noted that it will pay for 100% of the grid upgrades needed to interconnect its data centers, paid through increases to its monthly electricity charges. The company added that it will procure new power and protect consumers from price increases. Anthropic will work to bring net-new power generation online to match its data centers' electricity needs. Where new generation is not online, the company will work with utilities and external experts to estimate and cover demand-driven price effects from its data centers. In addition, the company said it is investing in curtailment systems that cut its data centers' power usage during peak demand periods and grid optimization tools, both of which help keep prices lower for ratepayers Anthropic also said that it will invest in local communities, noting that its current data center projects will create hundreds of permanent jobs and thousands of construction jobs. The company added that it will address environmental impacts, including deploying water-efficient cooling technologies. Anthropic noted that where it leases capacity from existing data centers, it is finding ways to address its own workloads' effects on prices. Training a single frontier AI model will soon require gigawatts of power, and the U.S. AI sector will need at least 50 gigawatts of capacity over the next several years, according to the company. "The country needs to build new data centers quickly to maintain its competitiveness on AI and national security—but AI companies shouldn’t leave American ratepayers to pick up the tab," said Anthropic in a press release on Wednesday....
A driver and his passenger were arrested after their car, which had an expired licence and allegedly contained small amounts of the drug etomidate, hit a police vehicle, a taxi and a bus while attempting to evade officers on a northern Hong Kong road. The crash on Thursday left three people injured including two police officers. The driver and a woman were arrested at the scene on suspicion of off...
A driver and his passenger were arrested after their car, which had an expired licence and allegedly contained small amounts of the drug etomidate, hit a police vehicle, a taxi and a bus while attempting to evade officers on a northern Hong Kong road. The crash on Thursday left three people injured including two police officers. The driver and a woman were arrested at the scene on suspicion of offences including dangerous driving, failing to stop for police and possession of suspected dangerous...
JHVEPhoto/iStock Editorial via Getty Images The Direxion Daily GOOGL Bull 2X Shares ETF ( GGLL ) is a leveraged single-stock exchange-traded fund designed to provide investors with 2x the daily performance of Alphabet ( GOOGL ) ( GOOG ) shares. With a diverging path across the mega-cap technology stocks becoming more prevalent, I believe volatility in GOOGL shares may increase, particularly given ...
JHVEPhoto/iStock Editorial via Getty Images The Direxion Daily GOOGL Bull 2X Shares ETF ( GGLL ) is a leveraged single-stock exchange-traded fund designed to provide investors with 2x the daily performance of Alphabet ( GOOGL ) ( GOOG ) shares. With a diverging path across the mega-cap technology stocks becoming more prevalent, I believe volatility in GOOGL shares may increase, particularly given the relative trading premium over its hyperscaler peers. Despite the high trading premium, I believe GOOGL shares exhibit a long-term path for growth as the firm invests more capital into AI development and data center capacity. Given the optimistic outlook for shares, investors may utilize GGLL as a way to leverage upward momentum while incrementally trading daily volatility. Given the risks involved relating to investing in leveraged strategies, GGLL should only be used for daily exposure; I am recommending the ETF with a Buy rating. As a disclosure, I am long-term bullish on GOOGL shares; you can review my most recent coverage of Alphabet here . Corporate Filings Investment Case for GOOGL Alphabet reported incremental strength across the enterprise in Q4 ’25 with Google Cloud achieving its first 30%+ operating margin, a significant sequential improvement. I believe this can be considered a vote of confidence when compared to peer hyperscalers that are struggling to maintain their higher cloud margins as a result of increasing reinvestment costs and depreciation costs. Alphabet’s margin expansion is underpinned by scaling and success in developing Gemini 3 and Gemini Enterprise, which I believe are some of the most advanced models on the market with respect to Anthropic ( ANTHRO ), OpenAI ( OPENAI ), and Microsoft ( MSFT ) Copilot. I believe Alphabet will continue its margin-accretive growth trend over the coming fiscal years as the firm heavily invests in expanding cloud computing capacity and further developing its AI models. Accordingly, management guided a 100% increa...
Ukrainian drones hit another Russian refinery owned by Lukoil PJSC , as Kyiv’s attacks on its foe’s energy infrastructure resume after a lull last month. Fire crews are working to extinguish a blaze at an oil refinery in the city of Ukhta some 1,550 km (over 960 miles) from Moscow, following a Ukrainian drone attack, Komi region governor Rostislav Goldshtein said in a post on Telegram without givi...
Ukrainian drones hit another Russian refinery owned by Lukoil PJSC , as Kyiv’s attacks on its foe’s energy infrastructure resume after a lull last month. Fire crews are working to extinguish a blaze at an oil refinery in the city of Ukhta some 1,550 km (over 960 miles) from Moscow, following a Ukrainian drone attack, Komi region governor Rostislav Goldshtein said in a post on Telegram without giving further details. Lukoil didn’t immediately respond to a Bloomberg request for comment. Ukrainian authorities have yet to comment on the Ukhta strike. Ukraine carried out multiple high-precision strikes on Russia’s energy assets last year, leading to refinery shutdowns, disruptions at oil terminals and the rerouting of some tankers. The attacks are designed to curb the Kremlin’s energy revenues and restrict fuel supplies to Russian front lines as the war is about to enter a fifth year. The attacks slowed in January, targeting three small independent Russian refineries that together account for about 7% of the country’s typical monthly crude throughput. The lull offered temporary relief for Russia’s downstream sector, allowing refinery runs to gradually recover. As processing rates improved, the government lifted its ban on most gasoline exports, enabling producers to resume shipments in February, a month earlier than planned. On Wednesday, however, Ukraine attacked Lukoil’s oil refinery in Russia’s Volgograd region in the first major strike on the country’s oil-processing industry this year. The plant’s design capacity is about 300,000 barrels of crude a day. The smaller Ukhta refinery has recently been processing just over 60,000 barrels per day.
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