Oil disruption fears in the Middle East are getting real after reports of an Israel strike on Iran

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Ships carrying Russian diesel are idling off of Brazil in the latest hold-up for Moscow's energy flows

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  • Over 3.7 million barrels of Russian diesel are sitting on ships idling in waters near Brazil, Bloomberg reports. 
  • Though reasons are unclear, it marks the latest delay in Russian energy flows amid sanctions. 
  • More Russian ships bound for Brazil are veering off course from their expected routes. 

Tankers loaded with millions of barrels of diesel are drifting along the coast of Brazil, Bloomberg reports, the latest delay in Russia's oil shipments amid the West's sanctions. 

Russia has finally admitted Western sanctions are hitting its oil exports

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Vladimir Putin.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin.

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AI execs who urgently need more energy to power their tech revolution are turning to fossil fuels

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Demand for data centers is expected to grow as companies use AI, fueling a need for nonrenewable energy sources.

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Billionaire Gautam Adani got rich off coal. Now his company is building a green energy plant the size of Chicago.

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Adani Green Energy Limited's renewable power plant in Gujarat state of India.

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A Bill Gates company is about to start building a nuclear power plant in Wyoming

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A rendering of TerraPower's nuclear power plant design.

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A devastating fried chicken shop explosion in China has killed 7 people and injured 27 others, the authorities say

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Firefighters work the scene of an explosion in Yanjiao, Sanhe city in northern China's Hebei province on Wednesday, March 13, 2024.
Firefighters work the scene of an explosion in Yanjiao, Sanhe city in northern China's Hebei province on Wednesday, March 13, 2024.

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America has descended into a new Red Scare

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Three farm water pump windmills. One of the windmills resembles a Communist hammer and sickle symbol.
The backlash in Green Charter represents something seldom seen since the Red Scare: a quasi-militant, homegrown resistance to the perceived threat of communism at home.

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ChatGPT uses 17,000 times the amount of electricity than the average US household does daily: report

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ChatGPT is using up a lot more electricity than the average US household.

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Russia played a card that nearly doubled its energy revenues in February

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Russian President Vladimir Putin attending the plenary session of the Valdai Discussion Club forum in Sochi, Russia, in October.

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