Spent the past two weeks making graphics about sweltering night-time temperatures while struggling to sleep because of those same hot nights... NEW: Tropical nights come to Europe w @attractamooney.bsky.social and @nassosstylianou.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/4929ae6c-e...

NEW: Tropical nights come to Europe One of the most striking features of the Europe's record-breaking summer is the intense night-time heat. Globally, the hottest nights are warming at a faster rate than the hottest days — with increasingly severe consequences. as.ft.com/r/eef6f0c5-6...

NEW: The century-old device choking the world’s AI push Transformers are crucial devices that help power our modern lives. As demand soars, the biggest transformers are in short supply, pushing up costs and risking a bottleneck for the energy transition and the AI boom. as.ft.com/r/6b73ce3e-c...

The century-old device choking the world’s AI push

Surging data-centre power demands are intensifying pressure on transformer supply chains

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🚨 NEW: The World Cup’s heat hazard I got a taste of the dangerous combination of heat and humidity that players and fans in the US could face during the tournament. And our data analysis shows how these conditions are intensifying across North America as.ft.com/r/390709b0-5...

Has the war in Iran enabled the shadow fleet as the US eases sanctions? At least 15 Iranian oil tankers have passed through the Strait of Hormuz since Feb 28, earning Iran possibly around $140mn a day. Our interactive deep dive: ig.ft.com/shadow-fleet/ @nassosstylianou.bsky.social & Lucy Rodgers

How the shadow fleet is capitalising on the chaos of war

The Iran conflict has offered the illicit oil trade a lifeline — while the easing of US sanctions widens a transatlantic rift

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Big Tech is spending billions on US data centres to fuel the AI race. But these grand plans face a problem: access to power. Estimates show the industry could be 40% short of the power it needs by 2028. Will this be the stumbling block that bursts the AI bubble? An #FTEdit 🧵on AI’s power problem 👇

NEW: The power crunch threatening America’s AI ambitions Big tech is spending hundreds of billions on data centres in the US to fuel the development of artificial intelligence. Our latest visual story explores the main challenge that these grand plans face: access to power. ig.ft.com/ai-power/

NEW: How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution Massive shipping containers packed with powerful batteries are shoring up grids & extending the use of clean power ig.ft.com/mega-batteri... Latest visual story w/ @samlearner.bsky.social @inari-ta.bsky.social @samjoiner.bsky.social

How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution

Vast battery units are shoring up grids and extending the use of clean power

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Our new game puts readers in charge of a fictional Premier League club, tasked with balancing the books & delivering on the pitch We’ve looked at how people have been getting on and guess what? Perhaps running a PL club is harder than it looks on.ft.com/3HM8iur Check out the game if you haven’t👇

How FT readers are faring in the Football Game

Half of players breach Premier League spending limits, reflecting the difficulty of balancing the books and delivering on the pitch

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Nassos Stylianou@nassosstylianou.bsky.social · 12mo ago

We've built a football game and it's free to play! Can you run a Premier League club? Step into the boardroom, navigate financial regulations and guide your team to glory in our new game. 👉 ft.com/football-game ⚽️💸

ICE plans to 6x its current budget for immigrant transportation and deportations. The money offers a potential windfall for a few contractors and charter airlines — some with close ties to the Trump campaign. Yet the system is already under strain, with significant concerns for detainees' safety: 🧵

The booming business of Trump’s deportation flights

Companies are jostling for billions of dollars to fly immigrant detainees out of the US

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We've built a football game and it's free to play! Can you run a Premier League club? Step into the boardroom, navigate financial regulations and guide your team to glory in our new game. 👉 ft.com/football-game ⚽️💸

Can you run a Premier League football club?

Step into the boardroom, navigate profit and sustainability rules and guide your club to glory

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The second piece in our AI series explores how the growing energy demand for training and running artificial intelligence models is driving increased investment in fossil fuels - and how accounting techniques distract from the surge in tech company data centre emissions on.ft.com/4lkAjXN

New visual story: Inside the relentless race for AI capacity The quest for superintelligence is spurring a data centre boom — but critics question the cost, environmental impact and whether it is all needed ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...

NEW VISUAL INVESTIGATION: Inside America’s booming immigration detention industry Our analysis has identified a number of facilities housing hundreds more people than they are designed to hold. Lawyers and detainees told the FT people have been sleeping on the floor. 👉 ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...

NEW: Even before Donald Trump began his mass deportation plans, the US had the world's largest immigration detention system - 85% run privately. Record numbers are now being held and detainees, lawyers and relatives have spoken of poor conditions. 🔗 ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...

Inside America’s booming immigration detention industry

The enormous US deportation programme is enriching companies as detainees complain of poor treatment

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New visual investigation: Inside America's booming immigration detention industry where record levels of incarceration are leading to deteriorating conditions, legal representatives & detainees say. ⁦ ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...

China is on its way to becoming the world’s first major 'electrostate', with a growing share of its energy coming from electricity and an economy increasingly driven by clean technologies 📈🌏🧵 w/ @janatausch.bsky.social and Ed White on.ft.com/3EWY5Kd

How Xi sparked China’s electricity revolution

[FREE TO READ] Beijing’s aggressive pursuit of energy self-sufficiency could give it the upper hand in the trade war with the US

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NEW from the team: another look at the supply chain behind the iPhone and why it would be impractical to manufacture in the US: ig.ft.com/us-iphone/

Focus, for a moment, on all of the goods that remain hit by Trump's massive new tariff barrage. Excellent explainer and data viz from @nassosstylianou.bsky.social et al

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The Chinese goods Americans most rely on, from microwaves to Barbies https://www.ft.com/content/ec96e2ed-5dd6-4c6b-92a0-1b77bf517b36

Updated: While Trump has now excluded smartphones and laptops, the two highest-value imports from China, from his “reciprocal” tariffs, 46 of the 50 items the US most relies on China for are still subject to the levies. www.ft.com/content/ec96...

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NEW: More than 75% of smartphones, video game consoles, microwave ovens and toys shipped to the US in 2024 were produced in China We looked at the products Americans rely most on China for and spoke to experts about the possible impact of Trump's tariffs on US consumers www.ft.com/content/ec96...

NEW: More than 75% of smartphones, video game consoles, microwave ovens and toys shipped to the US in 2024 were produced in China We looked at the products Americans rely most on China for and spoke to experts about the possible impact of Trump's tariffs on US consumers www.ft.com/content/ec96...

New: More than 3/4 of the mobile phones, games consoles, food processors, electric fans and toys shipped to the US last year were made in China. The products are among more than 50 items with an import value above $1bn subject to Trump’s 125% tariffs. Free-to-read link: on.ft.com/3Ei8ujf

NEW: Trump hopes that his tariffs will erode China’s surplus and allow US factories to compete. But the Chinese trade juggernaut is built on deep competitive advantages built up over decades and will not be easily dislodged Our visual deep dive into China's trade dominance ig.ft.com/china-trade-...

How China’s record trade surplus helped spark Trump’s tariff war

Beijing’s domination of global trade has led to a schism between the world’s two largest economies — and left many others worried about their industries being crushed by China’s export machine

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New: Three decades after China liberalised its property market and ushered in a historic era of urbanisation, the state is back in force. Our latest visual investigation uses residential land sales to show that state-owned developers are propping up China’s housing sector. ig.ft.com/china-proper...

How the state is propping up China’s housing market

As the government struggles to ease a real estate crisis, state-owned developers have been buying up land

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New: Can Trump make bitcoin useful? In our latest visual story, we assess the US president’s plans for a national stockpile... W/ @nassosstylianou.bsky.social @nikasgari.bsky.social Dan Clark @inari-ta.bsky.social ky.social @ian-bott.bsky.social @raydouglas.bsky.social ig.ft.com/trump-bitcoi...

Can Trump make bitcoin useful?

The US president is embracing the cryptocurrency, exciting enthusiasts and concerning sceptics

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NEW: Can Trump make bitcoin useful? President Trump's embrace of crypto has helped supercharge bitcoin's price to eye-watering six-figure highs. Investors are excited by the prospect of a national bitcoin stockpile, but how such a reserve would work is unclear. ig.ft.com/trump-bitcoi...

The FT Visual Stories team's piece on the barriers to electric vehicle use is in @gijn.org's round up of this week's best data stories. @upyorkshire.ft.com @samjoiner.bsky.social @nassosstylianou.bsky.social @inari-ta.bsky.social @samlearner.bsky.social

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Here, @data.ft.com presents the imaginary town of Greenwell — where everything has been designed to make EV use easier — to show how this ideal vision is a far cry from the experience of current electric vehicle owners & what changes are needed. https://twp.ai/1SLkCs

NEW: Petrol cars are on the way out. Are you ready to go electric? By 2030 the UK government wants 80% of new cars to be EVs. In our latest visual story, we built the perfect EV town and set out the changes needed to accelerate the transition ig.ft.com/uk-electric-...

I filled in for @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social this week with a Data Points column on why fears that deepfakes would cause election chaos this year turned out to be - mostly - overblown on.ft.com/4gy9i1c

How we were deepfaked by election deepfakes

[FREE TO READ] The panic over AGI disinformation in this year’s political cycle seems to have been overblown

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NEW: A visual exploration of the closer trade ties that are poised to thrust Mexico into the centre of Trump’s trade war with China 🇲🇽 🤝 🇨🇳 👉 ig.ft.com/china-mexico... By @nassosstylianou.bsky.social @inari-ta.bsky.social Christine Murrey and Dan Clark

How China is setting up shop in Mexico

An increasingly close trade relationship is causing concern in Washington

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