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Industrializing geology and atmosphere

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Welcome to December 11, 2025 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

The physical world is re-engineered to feed compute — geothermal drilled for datacenter power, weather modification proposed as a service.

Development timeline

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2026-09-13: The Atlantic records no hurricanes by mid-September for the first time in sixty years

2026-08-31: Two companies each target 100 gigawatts a year of solar capacity

2026-08-27: A lab will pay $45 billion for 460 megawatts at a campus a rival abandoned

2026-08-25: Old fiber is turned into thousands of sensors mapping weak zones underground

2026-08-15: A robotaxi operator wins approval across eighteen counties

2026-08-10: A space company argues every planet's magnetic field is free to harvest

2026-08-06: A weather model buys an extra day of cyclone lead time and is open-sourced

2026-08-06: A paper prices megaengineering to keep Earth habitable far past its natural span

2026-08-03: A country approves eight reactors worth over $25 billion

2026-08-01: A founder predicts almost all compute ends up in space

2026-07-30: A Cold War uranium site is converted into a $100 billion data campus

2026-07-30: An airliner completes the longest test flight ever flown commercially

2026-07-29: A regulator rules plants serving only datacenters escape an acid rain program

2026-07-26: A validated process strips 90% of long-lived waste from spent fuel in a day

2026-07-24: A wave energy converter wins its first certification

2026-07-23: A lab brings 3.2 self-built gigawatts with rate protections and public audits

2026-07-19: Wildfire-detection satellites launch through the smoke they were built to see

2026-07-16: Fusion draws a record $4.48 billion in annual funding

2026-07-12: Environmental groups demand a cumulative review of a million satellites

2026-07-11: A company files for a 100,000-satellite fleet nine times its current size

2026-07-11: A $145B agreement would deploy 3 GW of factory-built microreactors

2026-07-08: A Nobel laureate unveils a uranium-free laser-fusion plant

2026-07-07: A fourth microreactor reaches criticality as gas demand is forecast to contract

2026-07-07: A lab dissolves into its rocket-company parent as orbit gains a data embassy

2026-07-05: Astronomers urge a cap of 100,000 satellites

2026-07-04: Microreactors go critical on a presidential deadline

2026-07-02: A nuclear startup makes electricity and spends it on an AI chip

2026-06-28: A fusion prototype triples its plasma by mechanical compression alone

2026-06-25: A venture firm funds the first modern exchange for compute

2026-06-24: Two executive orders target a useful quantum computer by 2028

2026-06-21: A study finds datacenters nudged US power rates down

2026-06-20: A reactor goes critical after being airlifted by a military transport

2026-06-19: Small reactors are ordered as a country lifts its nuclear ban

2026-06-17: A company wins the first license to build a fusion plant

2026-06-14: A datacenter is built from two thousand retired phones

2026-06-13: The first crewed fixed-wing flight on solid-state batteries

2026-06-12: US solar outproduces coal for the first time

2026-06-10: A major city pauses new datacenters as an automaker opens its EVs to the grid

2026-06-05: A private fusion prototype burns D-T fuel past 150 million degrees

2026-06-05: Retired robotaxi batteries return as grid storage

2026-06-04: A company films datacenter satellites launched off a strip-mined Moon

2026-06-04: A hyperscaler pledges to replenish more water than it consumes

2026-06-01: A company seeks to release 32 million treated mosquitoes

2026-06-01: Cold War warhead plutonium is handed to private reactor firms

2026-05-25: Wind and solar pass gas worldwide for the first time

2026-05-03: A company validates 143 million gallons of seeded rainfall

2026-04-09: Germany builds the tallest wind turbine inside a coal mine

2026-04-03: Artemis II completes the first translunar injection since 1972

2026-04-02: Land temperatures rise 2°C after a datacenter opens

2026-03-31: An orbital datacenter startup reaches unicorn status

2026-03-25: Antimatter is transported outside a laboratory for the first time

2026-03-25: Planned lunar mass drivers are noted to double as weapons

2026-03-22: Ninety feet of new beach is grown in six months

2026-03-21: Engineered structures grow 90 feet of beach in six months

2026-03-12: A Moon factory is built for under five thousand dollars

2026-03-08: DART turns out to have shifted both asteroids' solar orbits

2026-03-02: An orbital mirror launches as a telescope flags 800,000 events in one night

2026-02-21: A speculative venture steers storms by inverting a weather model

2026-02-13: Musk says the future economy will run on mass and energy

2026-02-10: A submersible hitches rides on host vessels to recharge

2026-02-09: SpaceX targets a self-growing lunar city within ten years

2026-02-07: A datacenter moratorium bill pushes compute toward orbit

2026-02-05: The FCC accepts the filing for a million orbital datacenters

2026-01-10: California is drought-free for the first time in 25 years

2026-01-05: A melting Arctic halves the China-UK shipping time

2026-01-05: Superconducting shields are proposed against Carrington events

2026-01-05: Rare earths are refined without emissions in New Hampshire

2026-01-04: The UN finalizes deep-sea mining rules across 31 contracts

2026-01-03: China crusts the desert with engineered algae

2026-01-03: The first commercial subsea desalination plant launches

2026-01-02: Fusion reactors could mint gold as a side business

2025-12-24: China plans 15 GW of solar thermal

2025-12-23: China activates the first commercial supercritical CO2 generator

2025-12-22: China builds the largest solar park on the Tibetan Plateau

2025-12-21: A catalytic process turns polystyrene waste into toluene

2025-12-20: Magna Petra signs ispace to mine lunar Helium-3

2025-12-19: Trump Media merges with fusion firm TAE in a $6B deal

2025-12-18: The Permian Basin is turned into a compute cluster

2025-12-15: 185-nm UV converts methane and CO2 to fuel without a catalyst

2025-12-14: Nuclear-specific models are trained to keep Diablo Canyon running

2025-12-13: Commonwealth Fusion's demo plant is 75% complete

2025-12-12: Stationary storage battery prices fall 45% in a year

2025-12-12: A Utah reserve with 16 critical elements is reported

2025-12-11: Fervo raises $462M to scale geothermal for AI power

2025-12-11: Rainmaker promises weather modification in the American West

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Industrializing geology and atmosphere
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