They Voted, the Servers Still Hum: Who Pays to Keep the Lights On?
Data centres, power bills and grid reliability after the midterms, plus a calm household outage plan.

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Data centres, power bills and grid reliability after the midterms, plus a calm household outage plan.
First Sponsored Access Card dump: Labor and Coalition MPs co-sponsoring permanent Parliament House passes for Woodside, gas lobbies and Responsible Wagering Australia — while a 1,086-card backlog and in-house lobbyists…
Vance says the reason Republicans lost is the Iran war. Alex Knight on the four-to-five-week promise, loyalty tests, and the wrong lesson about Israel.
Allegedly assaulted with a baseball bat over One Nation signs in Torquay, a volunteer is in hospital. Lee Robbins asks whether democracy warnings apply when the victim votes One Nation.
A parent's worry will now trigger urgent checks in England's A&Es. Sally Joe asks why it took a toddler's death in a corridor to get here.
On the eve of the midterms, Hatch Act complaints name Cabinet secretaries and FCC Chair Brendan Carr while ABC tells a court its coverage is already bending.
Danny Mullane rants on Australia's political parties, Labor, Albanese, and the battlers left behind.
Texas drought rules tighten as data centers fight for water. J-Mark's practical, funny guide to storing two weeks of water at home.
Spitting on Sir David Amess's statue is disgusting. Arresting a 15-year-old over Facebook jokes is something else. Sally Joe on offence versus crime in Britain.
Labor's Digital Duty of Care Bill brings $109.2m fines, undercover eSafety powers and a 'serious distress' harm. Who decides what distress means?
Well, here we are again, folks. Another day, another scandal, and another reason to lose faith in the institutions that are supposed to protect us.
The Justice Department is using the Sherman Act against ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and Fox over a pool coverage pause. Jesse Saunders says that's a line.
eSafety's own data says 8 in 10 under-16s are still on social media. Now Canberra plans to sue Meta, TikTok and others. iKarl asks who really benefits.
Army vet and Israel absolutist Alex Knight on the 27 October vote: back the IDF, beat Hamas, and drop the Netanyahu loyalty test.
Steve Baker's new Capitol CCTV appears to put Brian Cole Jr. elsewhere when the J5 pipe bombs were placed. Jesse Saunders asks why BLM is silent.
Sally Rooney's books are gone from British shops after she pledged her royalties to banned group Palestine Action. Lee Robbins on suicidal empathy and free speech.
Sally Joe on the Prevent watchdog unit that logged 77 critical social media posts, and why the country of Magna Carta should never treat criticism as a threat.
Alright folks, gather ’round! Jesse here, and boy, do I have a story for you.From about December 2019 — smack in the first Trump impeachment calendar — an FBI Foreign Influence Task Force shop ran Round River.
Australia has had past prime ministers from the Liberal and Labor parties. These former prime ministers have been incompetent liars, weak, lazy, duplicitous, backstabbing, contemptuous, arse lickers, arrogant arseholes.
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