Index Data
15 interactive data indexes — each a multi-chart, source-cited view you can explore, drill into, embed, and cite.
AI Capex vs. US Defense Spending
Big Tech’s 2026 AI capital expenditure, by company, set against the US national-defense budget. Combined hyperscaler AI capex is now roughly two-thirds of defense spending — and growing far faster.
Explore index →AI Data Centers & Your Power Bill
How the AI build-out is reshaping US electricity: data-center power demand nearly doubling from 2025 to 2028, and the projected hit to household and wholesale power prices by the end of the decade.
Explore index →AI Data-Center Electricity Demand & the Grid
Global data-center power consumption, the AI share of incremental demand, capacity-market price spikes, US grid shortfall, and per-site draw.
Explore index →GLM-5.2 Benchmarks
How Z.ai’s GLM-5.2 stacks up against the frontier (Claude Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro) and its predecessor GLM-5.1 — across long-horizon coding, standard coding, reasoning, and agentic benchmarks, plus the MTP speculative-decoding gain. The strongest open-source model at launch.
Explore index →Gold Price Fluctuation
Gold’s historic run: annual price from 2020 to the 2026 record territory, yearly returns, the central-bank buying behind the rally, and where analysts see it heading.
Explore index →SpaceX IPO & the Commercial Space Economy
Starlink growth, launches by year, the valuation ladder, satellites deployed, launch-cost decline, and coverage — the data behind the 2026 IPO story.
Explore index →Stablecoins & the GENIUS Act
Stablecoin market-cap growth, issuer share, transfer volume vs card networks, GENIUS Act compliance timeline, and reserve composition.
Explore index →The 6.5% Mortgage Era
US mortgage rates settled into the mid-6% range in 2026 while home-price forecasts converged near flat — the first stretch since 2008 in which prices are expected to grow slower than wages.
Explore index →The Frontier AI Model Race (2026)
Release cadence, capability-vs-cost frontier, benchmark trajectory, training compute, and the new axis of safety-gated capabilities.
Explore index →US Fed & Interest Rates
The Federal Reserve’s rate path from the 2021 near-zero floor to the 2026 hold under Chair Kevin Warsh, plus today’s benchmark rates — fed funds, the 10-year Treasury, and the 30-year mortgage.
Explore index →US Inflation (CPI / PCE)
US consumer-price inflation re-accelerating in 2026: the month-by-month CPI path (headline vs core) and the May 2026 breakdown by category, with energy doing the damage.
Explore index →US Oil & Gas Dashboard
Every key US oil & gas number on one page: the 2026 crude-price shock from the Strait of Hormuz, Henry Hub natural gas, record US crude production, a depleted Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and the drilling rig count.
Explore index →US Pump Prices
What Americans pay at the pump: the national average for regular gasoline and diesel in mid-2026, and how diesel’s Hormuz-driven spike compares with the EIA’s forecast.
Explore index →Where 2026 Inflation Actually Is
US headline CPI peaked in spring 2026 and fell in June — but the Fed’s preferred core gauge is still being revised up on an energy and fertilizer supply shock. The two charts tell opposite halves of the story.
Explore index →Which Jobs AI Is Actually Hitting
How far AI reaches into the labor market: the share of jobs exposed (global vs advanced economies) and where hiring demand is growing fastest for AI roles and skills.
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