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Rhodium Group

Independent research firm providing data-driven analysis on climate, energy, and economic policy, including China's economy and markets.

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leadershipOne report1 publisher

Utilities are pricing data-center demand into electricity rates

New Jersey's utilities board warned power bills could rise up to 20% from June 1, with data centers a key driver. Utilities elsewhere are building the same demand into their pricing, so energy belongs among the costs an operator should expect to climb.

Publishers:cbsnews.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption30
Hype gap+20
Incentives40
Confidence50
productOne report1 publisher

Samsung's memory gains on SK Hynix still hinge on Nvidia's supplier choices

Samsung has more than doubled its high-bandwidth memory share in a year, eating into SK Hynix's lead, Rest of World reports. For anyone buying AI capacity, the contest could affect how fast and how cheaply new clusters arrive.

Publishers:restofworld.org

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption35
Hype gap+15
Incentives30
Confidence45
scienceOne report1 publisher

Climate Impact Lab attributes 450,000 deaths to El Nino heat through February

The Climate Impact Lab ran a European seasonal temperature outlook through local mortality curves fitted for 24,000 regions, and the authors want health ministries to treat the result as a schedule for moving staff, water and cooling.

Publishers:newscientist.com

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+14
Incentives42
Confidence52
leadershipOne report1 publisher

Naive AI heads for an open-weight release with MiroMind's IP threat unresolved

The Beijing lab is seven months old and valued at $1.42 billion on one unnamed source's account, and its first model modifies someone else's open weights while the lab Dai Jifeng left says it licensed nothing.

Publishers:implicator.ai

Reality

Evidence32
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+45
Incentives70
Confidence38
investOne report1 publisher

High-Flyer's $31.8M of Beijing-blessed pre-IPO shares now mark near $180M

The quant fund that seeded DeepSeek with cash and compute now farms state-favored listings, where a fivefold debut and a 460% opening day outran a trading book that lost money in eight of nine products in July, while DeepSeek raises capital elsewhere.

Publishers:cnbc.com

Reality

Evidence61
Adoption66
Hype gap+22
Incentives58
Confidence57