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With three words, Jason Collins changed everything.

The unusual Nebraska Democratic Senate primary had two candidates accusing each other of political trickery. 

SpaceX, Google Eye Orbital Data Centers As Small-Town Resistance Grows

With roughly half of planned U.S. data center buildouts this year expected to be delayed or canceled amid mounting power constraints and local opposition, tech bros are increasingly looking beyond Earth and toward space for the next phase of compute expansion.

This dovetails with one of our most investable themes, "Data Centers In Space Are Coming: Here's How To Profit," in which we outlined how SpaceX, leveraging Starship's affordable launch costs and the Starlink network, could make it commercially viable to deploy spacecraft packed with chip stacks and build out a massive mesh network of orbital compute satellites.

Moments ago, The Wall Street Journal reported that Google is in discussions with Elon Musk's SpaceX as a key launch provider for orbital data center deployments.

WSJ: Google is in talks with SpaceX for a rocket launch deal as the search giant expands its own efforts to put orbital data centers in space.

The speculative technology has been at the center of SpaceX’s pitch to investors ahead of its planned public listing this summer

A… https://t.co/eg9yE3J1Uz

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) May 12, 2026

The discussions center on potential Starship launches for Google's Project Suncatcher, which aims to test satellite-based computing hardware by 2027, the outlet reported, citing sources.

"We'll send tiny racks of machines and have them in satellites, test them out, and then start scaling from there," Google CEO Sundar Pichai told Fox News in a recent interview.

Pichai noted, "There's no doubt to me that a decade or so away, we'll be viewing it as a more normal way to build data centers."

With the SpaceX IPO scheduled for June and commanding a valuation between $1.25 trillion and $1.75 trillion, we recently outlined for readers exactly how to profit from the commercialization of space. Read more here.

The urgency for orbital data center deployments comes as Canaccord Genuity analyst George Gianarikas warned in mid-April that "the American data center boom is hitting a formidable wall of logistical friction."

Gianarikas is referring to the latest outlook by Sightline Climate, which is also reinforced by recent articles from Bloomberg and others, and reveals a sobering reality for 2026: nearly half of the nation's planned 16-gigawatt capacity faces cancellation or delay, with only 5 gigawatts currently under construction.

This inertia stems from a volatile mix of local permitting hurdles, community resistance, and a desperate reliance on overextended global supply chains for critical components like transformers and helium.

Mounting localized resistance against data centers has caused growing alarm among the tech bro world, such as Chamath Palihapitiya, founder of Social Capital and co-host of the All-In Podcast, who recently warned that data center sentiment among the American people is actually polling worse than ICE agents.

Hyperscalers are planning to spend a staggering $700 billion in capex on data center buildouts and other AI infrastructure this year.

We expect capex commitments toward orbital data centers to accelerate over the next several years, especially as Starship shifts from years of flight testing into full commercialization.

Starcloud...

.@Starcloud_ plans to build a 5GW orbital data center, lower energy costs by 10x, and reduce the need for energy consumption on Earth, including deployment of the Starcloud-1 satellite powered by an NVIDIA H100 GPU. pic.twitter.com/yPEddTWnh7

— NVIDIA Robotics (@NVIDIARobotics) May 11, 2026

For hyperscalers facing mounting constraints on land, power, permitting, and local opposition, space offers no zoning battles, no community resistance, and full access to solar energy.

Tyler Durden Tue, 05/12/2026 - 21:20

A four-page manifesto was reportedly sent to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger before a bomb scare disrupted a campaign event for the Republican gubernatorial candidate.

“You stole from these boys their childhoods. You stole from them their love of music. You stole from them their ability to love," the judge told the creep in court.

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Texas’ Steve Sarkisian is piling on Ole Miss.

...and just a few short months later, he began dating her best friend.

Ukraine To Israel: We Are Fighting The Same Axis Of Evil

Via The Libertarian Institute

A Ukrainian diplomat said to the Israeli press that Tel Aviv is missing an opportunity to save the lives of its soldiers by working with Kiev on anti-drone technology. 

Speaking with Ynet about Kiev’s anti-drone capabilities, Ukraine’s ambassador to Israel, Yevgen Korniychuk, said, "We are fighting from a different angle against the same axis of evil."

via YNet

"Unfortunately, we do not see much interest or appetite from the Israeli leadership in this field. I do not want to speculate about the reasons for that. I am very sorry to hear reports about soldiers who were hit by drones, because we suffer from exactly the same thing."

He added, "When meeting people from different parts of Israeli society, I often hear frustration over the fact that Israel is missing an opportunity to save more of its soldiers’ lives. Most Israelis support Ukraine and do not understand why Ukrainians are able to deal with drones and Israel is not."

Israel has faced thousands of drone attacks by Iran and Hezbollah. Over the past month, Hezbollah has released dozens of videos of its drones targeting Israeli soldiers occupying southern Lebanon. 

Ukraine has sent about 200 drone experts to the Middle East to help the US and Arab states take down Iranian drones. Russia has used a variant of an Iranian drone during the war in Ukraine. 

Komiychuk lamented that while some Arab countries were willing to accept Ukraine’s assistance, Israel was not.

"As you know, President Zelensky recently made several regional visits in the Middle East, mainly to discuss security cooperation and advancing peace," he said. "I worked hard to create direct political contact for our leadership. However, you cannot come to someone’s home without an invitation."

While both Ukraine and Israel have been top recipients of American military aid and support, the relationship between Tel Aviv and Kyiv is strained. The most recent point of friction was a Russian grain shipment that Israel received. Kiev demanded that Tel Aviv refuse the grain, claiming it was stolen by Russia from Ukraine. 

Kormiychuck said that while tension existed between Israel and Ukraine, "My duty as ambassador is to find common ground for mutual benefit and development, and I truly believe our conversations could have been much better."

Tyler Durden Tue, 05/12/2026 - 20:55

Almost 2,000 wildfires have burned nearly 120,000 acres just since the start of the year, the Florida Forest Service said earlier this month.

Now that the Nets’ lottery hopes have gone to hell, they’ll spend the rest of the draft combine here trying to find prospects to anchor their rebuild.

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Jets great Mark Gastineau, 69, filed a notice of appeal in his federal lawsuit filed against ESPN, the NFL and NFL Films over the ESPN "30 for 30" documentary, “The New York Sack Exchange.”

A scuba crew searching California’s Russian River has sparked renewed attention around the shadowy world of Bohemian Grove after documenting an expedition.

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"Chicom Among Us": Maryland GOP Lawmakers Sound Alarm Over Chinese-Born Delegate's AI Disclosure Bill

Rooting out Chinese communist spies appears to be moving higher on the agenda at the U.S. Justice Department, with Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche now at the helm.

On Monday, the DoJ indicted Arcadia, California, Mayor Eileen Wang for working with the Chinese government. The larger concern is that Chinese communists have penetrated deeply into many levels of the U.S. government, as well as corporate America.

Spies are like cockroaches: if there's one, there are likely many more.

You are not gonna believe what I just found

The California Mayor who admitted to being a Chinese spy donated to the Democrat Senate Campaign Committee

Democrat Senators are being funded by Chinese spies

If it was the other way around, it would be front page news for weeks pic.twitter.com/wlHyLYzdub

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 12, 2026

That brings us to a recent podcast appearance by Mark Fisher and Brian Chisholm, Republican members of the Maryland House of Delegates, who raised alarm bells about one of their Democratic colleagues in Annapolis: Delegate Chao Wu, who was born in China and has pushed a state-level bill that would require AI companies to disclose sensitive trade data on their models.

"Welcome back to the Dumbest Bill in America. We have, of course, with us Delegate Brian Chisholm," Fisher said.

Fisher continued, "Because we believe that we have a communist Chicom among us. Well, and let me tell you why..." 

He said, "First of all, the bill is House Bill 823 from 2025. It was introduced by Delegate Wu — spelled W-U. And the bill basically says that if you're going to engage in AI training — artificial intelligence training — you have to disclose your training models and your training data every time you change it. Well, that would of course be a trade secret, wouldn't it?" 

Chisholm chimed in, saying, "So what their goal also in China… Look, China knows they can't take us down with tanks and bullets and all that. They have to kind of backdoor it. So they send in spies — people like Chao Wu — and try to gain intelligence, correct?" 

He continued, "That's the goal. The fight right now is who can get the intelligence faster. Why they sent us… it says something about Maryland. Maybe we're like the JV team that they sent Chao Wu to, because he's not the greatest of spies. I mean, his trail… and I'm sure you're going to bring up the article. We know he was working for the CCP when he was in college. You can't just reject it at one time…"

Chicom of the Year Award — HB 823 from 2025 requires the disclosure of AI training data. What is the purpose of this bill? Join @chisholmstrong & me for the Dumbest Bill in America! pic.twitter.com/RkWT4c7JGK

— Mark Fisher (@fisher4maryland) April 30, 2026

The article Chisholm was referring to...

Of course, Maryland Democrats call anything optically displeasing "racist" ...

Meanwhile, Dems in the state are "busy sending private letters policing podcasts and using CCP-style speech tactics." 

Maryland families are still reeling from the $1.5+ billion in new taxes & fees rammed through by @mddems.
Instead of fixing our broken budget, skyrocketing costs, or crime — the Speaker is busy sending private letters policing podcasts and using CCP-style speech tactics against… pic.twitter.com/2RMaquCqhu

— Maryland Freedom Caucus (@MDFreedomCaucus) May 11, 2026

To sum up, HB 823 could compel AI developers in the state to publicly disclose commercially sensitive details about their training model pipelines, creating an opportunity for foreign competitors, such as China, to collect open-source data. 

Now, why would a Chinese-born Maryland lawmaker, right down the street from Data Center Alley, want to push such a bill?

Tyler Durden Tue, 05/12/2026 - 20:30

Gabba Gabba hold on! A years-long battle over the legal rights to the legacy of punk rock pioneers The Ramones has finally been settled after the feud boiled over because of a shelved Pete Davidson-led Netflix biopic about the band’s late singer. But the bitter and personal battle may rage on between the family members...

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