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In Virginia, Henrico County is asking every employee — from school staff to social services workers — to turn off unused lights, close their blinds, and lay off the space heaters. The reason is data centers, more than four hundred of them in the state, quietly driving up electricity demand and pricing to a point where a county manager had to send a conservation plea just to keep the grid stable.
Shifting to crypto markets, traders in the Bitcoin options space are loading up on fifty thousand dollar puts, essentially betting on further price drops rather than a rebound. Meanwhile, gold futures are flashing a death cross, a technical signal that tends to spook investors. The mood across both markets right now reads more like defense than optimism.
And on a very different note, the decentralized finance protocol Aave just had its biggest single-day growth in nearly five years, adding one thousand eight hundred and six new wallets in a single day. The AAVE token is up roughly twenty percent in a week, even as the broader crypto market slides — suggesting some corners of DeFi are quietly finding their footing again.
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