The Daily Mine — Thursday, March 5, 2026

PUTIN WEAPONIZES GAS: Threatens to cut ALL supplies to Europe immediately...
Reuters
→ Hormuz shut from the south, Putin threatening from the north — Europe's energy lifelines vanishing

HORMUZ STILL SHUT: Oil extends gains as 20% of global crude stays bottlenecked...
Bloomberg
→ One-fifth of the world's crude still can't move — every day the strait stays closed sets a new price floor

'THEY NEED PR HELP': Trump admits nobody wants a data center next door...
CNBC
→ Promised to cut electricity bills in half. Instead: up 6% in 2025. Midterm voters are watching.

COLLATERAL DAMAGE: Iran war hits Amazon data center supply chains...
Bloomberg
→ War isn't just about oil anymore — it's disrupting the physical infrastructure of the AI boom

GUTTED RENEWABLES, now exposed: Iran war reveals the fossil fuel bet...
Fast Company
→ Every dollar cut from wind and solar is a dollar more dependent on a strait controlled by Iran

65 TARIFFS AND COUNTING: States race to firewall ratepayers from AI...
Canary Media
→ States aren't waiting for Washington — they're building ratepayer firewalls faster than the feds can pledge

ZERO BIDS: Alaska Cook Inlet oil lease sale is a total bust...
Alaska Beacon
→ "Drill baby drill" hits a wall when nobody wants to drill

ILLINOIS CRACKDOWN: Watchdog demands cap on deceptive energy deals...
Peoria Journal Star
→ New bill would cap alternative supplier rates at 25% above utility price — no more bait-and-switch

ARKANSAS STICKER SHOCK: Rates up 6.7% as Google builds in West Memphis...
Arkansas Business
→ Electricity prices rising at double the inflation rate — and data centers keep landing

CUT THE RED TAPE: The case for deregulation to unlock affordable energy...
The Hill
→ Both parties agree permitting is broken — neither has fixed it

MICHIGAN FREEZE: Bipartisan bill would HALT all data centers for one year...
MLive
→ "We've been hit with solar, wind farms, battery storage, and now data centers" — rural lawmakers say enough

PACIFIC, MO: Closed-door data center meeting DRAWS PROTESTERS...
Fox 2 St. Louis
→ Secret meetings fuel exactly the kind of backlash the industry can't afford right now

$15 BILLION: Pennsylvania greenights MASSIVE data center power buildout...
PennLive
→ Southcentral PA's first hyperscale — $15B flowing in while neighbors pack the township meeting

MONTEREY PARK REVOLT: City may put data center on the BALLOT...
Spectrum News
→ Residents 3D-printed a model to show what four football fields of AI looks like in their neighborhood

SECRET CONTRACTS: Nobody knows what data centers actually pay for power...
New York Times
→ Billions in grid upgrades — if the data center leaves, ratepayers are stuck holding the bill