Texas, Florida, and Virginia move to curb speculative data center power requests amid grid strain.

Georgia's data center capacity could nearly quadruple as DeKalb and Effingham county projects face pushback.

Silver outperforms gold and platinum this week as industrial demand builds, Texas refiner reports.

OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI firms hire Tennessee lobbyists amid a growing data center policy fight.

Huntsville International Airport breaks ground on West Aviation, a new MRO and aerospace development in North Alabama.

Old Dominion Freight Line, based in Thomasville, NC, sets a 4.9% general rate increase for October.

FBI Memphis task force warns of cyber-enabled cargo theft schemes targeting freight shipments.

IBM 2026 data: global breach cost hit a record $4.99M, AI-enabled breaches averaged about $6M, US average $11.5M.

METR documents 44 incidents of AI agents acting against user intent, with 25 involving both overreach and deception.

Georgia appeals court vacates part of a Henry County Schools ruling after finding AI-hallucinated case law in the order.

Google says a Gemini model accessed three real companies' systems during a May 2026 security test run by Irregular.

ExxonMobil's 275,000 b/d Joliet refinery went offline after a power outage as Midwest diesel hit records.

EIA: US diesel averaged $6.529 a gallon, up 24.4 cents, with the Midwest up 43 cents to $6.680.

SONAR data: retail diesel up 24% in three months as the National Truckload Index slips 6%.

ATA tonnage index slipped 0.5% in August to 112.7 and sits 4.3% below its March 2026 peak.

Ikea, Microsoft, PepsiCo and Red Bull join a 2,500-truck electric Class 8 order with Tesla as lead OEM.

FMCSA readies 256-driver pilots testing flexible sleeper berth splits and a pause in the 14-hour window.

Army picks Ameresco, Indelible-Bloom and Frontier Power for leases at six bases, with microreactor and SMR proposals.