78 gigawatts of reactors are under construction worldwide, the most in decades, and half the capacity is Chinese, approved at a metronomic ten reactors a year. The West, meanwhile, finished two projects a decade late and started selling reactors to data centres. An audit of the revival.
Aug 15, 2026 · 7 min read
Groningen closed by law on 19 April 2024 with hundreds of billions of cubic metres still underground, because the ground above it would not stop shaking. A democracy chose earthquakes over energy in the middle of an energy crisis. The bill, the lawsuits, and the lesson.
Aug 15, 2026 · 7 min read
The IEA counts 415 TWh of data-centre demand in 2024, doubling to 945 TWh by 2030. The global average is modest; the local concentrations are not. What the gap between those two numbers does to grids, prices, and the places that said yes early.
Aug 15, 2026 · 8 min read