South Korea’s Hyosung Heavy Industries has locked in ₩386.5 billion (about $277–$287 million) in ultra-high-voltage transformer contracts with two unnamed U.S. Big Tech companies for new AI data centers—one in the South and one in the North.

The award is smaller than some of Hyosung’s earlier 2026 utility mega-deals, but it is strategically important: hyperscalers are now buying grid hardware directly, and Hyosung is one of the few firms that can deliver 765 kV equipment from a U.S. factory. The split is ₩220 billion of 765 kV transformers for the southern site […]

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Canada’s Tariff Strategy Designed To Interfere With U.S. Midterm Elections. How many jobs will be sacrificed for Carney to win?

Late last month, Prime Minister Mark Carney pulled Canadian negotiators from the table and walked away from what the White House called the most preferential market access any country had received. The United States had proposed deep cuts on steel, aluminum, autos, lumber, and more. Carney rejected it. On September 8, Canada’s dollar-for-dollar retaliatory tariffs […]

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Minister to meet Jaguar Land Rover boss as thousands of job cuts expected due to Net Zero

Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds will meet Jaguar Land Rover chief executive PB Balaji and Unite general secretary Sharon Graham early this week to discuss thousands of expected job cuts at Britain’s largest carmaker. JLR has opened a voluntary redundancy program for salaried and management staff as it targets £1.7 billion in savings over two years. […]

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Net Zero is the root cause of deindustrialization as Germany’s Volkswagen cuts 100K jobs

Volkswagen’s board has approved the largest restructuring in the company’s 89-year history: about 100,000 jobs gone by 2030, a slashed model lineup, and four German plants—Emden, Zwickau, Hanover, and Audi’s Neckarsulm—facing a phased wind-down between 2031 and 2034. That is not a cyclical downturn. It is what happens when energy policy prices a manufacturing nation […]

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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is spot on: the new American tariffs will affect $1.5 billion of Alberta goods. The new Canadian counter-tariffs will affect $4.8 billion of the provincial economy.

That is not a talking point. It is the arithmetic of an integrated energy market that Ottawa cannot wish away, and Washington already understands. Smith’s warning, circulating widely after her CBC Power & Politics appearance and a clip posted by Stephen Taylor, is blunt: Alberta businesses will be hurt more by Canada’s own counter-tariffs than […]

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What Are the Next Steps for Venezuela’s Oil Production?

President Trump’s administration is in advanced talks with Venezuela’s interim government for what officials describe as a “massive” energy deal: a U.S. ownership stake or long-term lease covering 17 of the country’s most promising oil and gas fields holding about 90 billion barrels of proven reserves. That is nearly a third of Venezuela’s world-leading 300 […]

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