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Frontier Signals visual card for the coal deferrals and data center load signal.

May 5, 2026 · By Dave Robertson · High on facts, Medium on read

U.S. coal retirements hit a 15-year low. The reason isn't policy. It's data center load.

U.S. retired only 2.6 GW of coal in 2025, the least in 15 years. EIA names data center load as the demand-side cause. PPAs and dispatch have decoupled.

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Frontier Signals visual card for the Meta memory capex signal.

May 4, 2026 · By Dave Robertson · High on facts, Medium on read

Meta's $20B capex revision points at memory, not GPUs

Meta raised 2026 capex by $10B; Zuckerberg named memory pricing. SK hynix confirms three-year HBM shortage. Memory now binds AI infra cost more than logic.

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Frontier Signals visual card for the Datavault and Scilex GPU network signal.

April 29, 2026 · By Dave Robertson · High on facts, Medium on read

Pain pharma underwrites 48,000-GPU edge network. The 'quantum' is encryption.

A $120M Scilex term sheet funds Datavault's edge GPU buildout. The quantum label points to encryption, not quantum compute.

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