The AI Boom Has a New Enemy: Voters — America’s Data-Centre Backlash Is Spreading

  ABE NEWS | September 3, 2026 America has spent the past several years racing to build the physical infrastructure required for artificial intelligence. Now communities are beginning to ask a different question: Who is paying for it? Across the United States, enormous AI data centres are colliding with growing concerns over electricity prices, water…

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South Africa’s Eskom Profit More Than Doubles to $1.9 Billion — But a $7 Billion Debt Problem Is Growing

  ABE NEWS | August 31, 2026 South Africa’s long-troubled electricity giant Eskom has delivered one of the most dramatic financial turnarounds in its recent history, more than doubling annual profit to 30.3 billion rand — roughly US$1.9 billion — as power shortages collapsed, electricity sales improved and years of government intervention began producing visible…

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ABE ORIGINALS | AI Is Running Out of Room — The Global Race for the Electricity, Land and Infrastructure That Will Power the Future

  ABE NEWS | August 29, 2026 The artificial-intelligence race is usually presented as a competition between a handful of technology giants. OpenAI releases a new model. Google responds. Meta spends billions. Nvidia sells more chips. Governments announce national AI strategies, investors pour money into startups, and every few months another company promises that its…

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