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"Everyone is pointing to the recently passed Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability Act as a possible solution because it gives the state more pollution control flexibility, but even that may not be adequate if there’s not enough will at the top to make extra sure we don’t enter a crisis stage. The governor has expressed confidence that the state can handle this. But businesspeople are rightly freaking out."
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Audio and summary Why the Holdup Using Artificial Intelligence to Cut Illinois Government Costs? – Wirepoints
May 19, 2026
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer – Chicago’s struggling commercial real estate and more
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
Audio and summary
Remember this- when the power goes down and alarms, cc cameras and all your other electronically powered security isn’t worth squat and the hoodlums know if, all hell will break loose. And JB Chumley will be sitting in his mansion having a sumptuous meal along with all the other politician dirtbags IL is infested with.
Affordability for average citizens has NEVER been a concern of Pritzker and Democrats. I just paid $2.60/ gal for Top Tier 87 octane gasoline thanks to PDJT’s energy policy. I’m tickled that Pritzker’s slush fund is getting less now also.
Retiring those coal plants turns out to be not as good as Pritzker and his crew promised us as the dreams of “clean, reliable, affordable energy future for all” just didn’t happen. Many objected along the way but were loudly shamed as being naysayers to the bright clean future promised by Pritzker. The newest blame is the Data Centers, because, heaven forbid, Pritzker just couldn’t have been wrong or much less lying to further his political ambitions now could he? To be sure the Data Centers have their issues but an even bigger issue is why force retirement of fossil… Read more »
The soaring data center use of electricity is no surprise. Warnings began long, long ago, such as this report from 2008 that got huge attention from smart people in the industry. Politicians and media, however, ignored it on their blind quest for zero emissions.https://eta-publications.lbl.gov/sites/default/files/pdf_3.pdf