Basically, after Yemen put a blockade on Bab al-Mandeb, and hit a few Saudi ships, the insurers realized that it’s not safe.

It’s more that insurance carriers do not feel comfortable giving out insurance for Saudi ships now.

I’m sure Russia in particular would have absolutely no reason to retaliate asymmetrically against the west doing deep strikes against Russian civilian infrastructure right now.

It would be nuts for Iran to not keep up the pressure at this point. The US is used to being able to turn up and down the pressure as is convenient for them. Now they no longer control escalation, and Iran can’t allow the Americans to regroup. They have to pursue their advantage and drive the occupiers out of the region entirely now.

That’s absolutely why they are there. The US grid has very limited capacity, and expanding it will be a decades long project. It simply cannot support a significant data center build out in its current state. Yes, they do build data centers in the US, but there is a hard limit on the available energy production.

Putting data centers in these vassals states basically ties them deeper into US economy, and ensures their oil goes towards powering American data processing infrastructure. There’s a great discussion with Michael Hudson on the subject incidentally. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHvpgCaCkSs

That’s my impression as well, they started getting high on their own supply.

It’s kind of funny, the US grid basically lacks capacity to do a large data center expansion. So, Americans figured what if we put them in the Gulf and then you don’t even need to ship oil out of the Gulf, just burn it there to power them. They invest all this money into them, and then go and attack Iran who are now bombing the shit out of these things.

You know its bad when NYT starts publishing these kinds of articles, I guess it’s time for libs to start calling it New Orc times again.

there’s a lot of entitlement at work here

lol I saw Anthropic had a random big outage yesterday, I’m sure it was unrelated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC8fsX-B0BE

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seems like it’s failing on that front as well though

I’m glad he is your president because he tore down the curtains and now the whole world can see the US for what it really is.

looks like they’re working on fixing that

in completely unrelated news https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/12/former-emir-of-qatar-sheikh-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-dies-reactions

yeah for sure, it’s not gonna be fun for the next few years at least

This is roughly the time line that experts suggested incidentally. There was a couple of month of backlog that was being cleared, and now it’s gone and reserves are starting to get low. So, there’s no way to hide fuel shortages or associated byproducts like helium now. Also a fun fact is that helium can’t be stockpiled and relies on constant production.

yeah, but it’s not like you can get healthcare in the burger reich anyways