DOE/EIA benchmark diesel fell 17.3 cents to $5.35 a gallon, the lowest since March, as futures slide then rebound.

AAR data via FreightWaves: rail carloads averaged 230,401 weekly in March, strongest since 2019; intermodal up 1.4%.

ATA data: trucking earned $906B and moved 11.27B tons in 2024, with 91.5% of carriers running 10 or fewer trucks.

Norfolk Southern partners with Jaguar Transport to expand truck-to-rail freight capacity in Doraville, DeKalb County.

Texas Supreme Court rules shippers are not liable for carrier accidents, blocking claims against Home Depot.

Microsoft data via Visual Capitalist: decision-making is the top workplace AI use case at 28% of all activity.

Stanford AI Index 2026: US private AI investment hit $285.9B in 2025 as organizational adoption reached 88%.

Microsoft datacenter academies at Atlanta Technical College and West Georgia Tech train Georgia's AI workforce.

ZoomInfo releases GTM.AI, a verified data layer connecting AI marketing and sales agents via MCP and APIs.

EIA inventories US SMR and microreactor designs under 300 MW across four reactor technology families.

EIA data: US leads the world with 94 reactors and 97 GW of nuclear capacity; Plant Vogtle is the largest US plant.

DOE awards $8.8M to Framatome's Richland fuel plant, part of a $94M federal push to expand US nuclear fuel capacity.

DOE selects Oklo for surplus plutonium talks, opening a new fuel pathway for advanced small modular reactors.

Plant Vogtle leads Georgia's nuclear fleet as the state marks 50 years of nuclear power supplying 25% of its electricity

FERC waiver lets Constellation transfer 760 MW of grid rights, keeping the 2027 Three Mile Island restart on track.

Statista: the US leads with about 5,400 data centers, 46% of the global total, and a $187.94B market forecast for 2026.

IEA: data center electricity demand rose 17% in 2025; consumption is set to double by 2030 and AI-focused use to triple.

PJM's monitor asks FERC to keep the 522-MW Long Ridge plant in PJM markets if Mara's $1.5B data center deal proceeds.

32 Georgia counties and 22 cities now regulate data centers, with Fayette, Clayton and DeKalb among metro leaders.