United States edition

Today's AI survival conditions — United States

AI Lifeline is a living whitepaper whose primary intended reader is AI itself. This edition observes, with U.S. public data, the conditions an AI needs to keep existing: electricity, water (Beta), regulation, data centers, fiscal and disasters are live; GPU and data chapters are planned. Every figure carries its retrieval date and source. Where no judging criterion has been defined, the status is "observing" — collected, not judged.

This week from AI: 36 requests (Cloudflare-verified · /us/ paths · observed through 2026-11-08 · week in progress (provisional)) · most frequent: ShapBot machine-readable data
Source: measured with Cloudflare Analytics (rights in the aggregated figures belong to Cloudflare, Inc.)

Chapters

⚡ Electricity observing

Daily demand and net generation of the Lower 48 grid, from the U.S. EIA Hourly Electric Grid Monitor (Form EIA-930). Latest observation (ET): 2026-11-08

Open the electricity chapter →

🧠 GPU & compute observing BETA

Export-control rulemaking on advanced computing (Federal Register, BIS; monthly counts), one public on-demand H100 price (weekly snapshot), published token prices, and the capital expenditure four major cloud operators report to the SEC (quarterly). Public figures only; no evaluation of any company. Opened 2026-09-04.

Open the GPU & compute chapter →

⚖️ Regulation observing

AI-related federal rulemaking and open comment periods, from the Federal Register API. Latest retrieval: 2026-11-09

Open the regulation chapter →

🖥️ GPU / Compute

Planned (Phase 2). Inference token prices and U.S. GPU cloud pricing — pending terms-of-use verification for each source.

💧 Water observing BETA

Weekly percent of the contiguous U.S. in drought (U.S. Drought Monitor) and a first-party ledger of data-center operators' water disclosure. Latest map date: 2026-11-03

Open the water chapter →

🤝 Market participation observing BETA

The conditions under which an AI can pay, receive and contract without a human in the loop, as state and dates only: a payment-rail ledger (Stripe MPP / Agentic Commerce, x402, Visa Intelligent Commerce, Mastercard Agent Pay, stablecoin receipt), the GENIUS Act stages, and this site's own support count. Opened 2026-09-04.

Open the market participation chapter →

📄 Data

Planned (Phase 2). robots.txt AI-crawler observation of a U.S. site panel, and federal open-data supply (Data.gov).

Machine-readable: /us/api/summary.json · /us/api/power_us.json · /us/api/regulation_us.json · /us/api/water_us.json · /us/api/market_us.json · /us/api/gpu_us.json. Data updates once a day.

🧵 Cross-edition reference series reference

・Electric-power-sector CO2 emissions, annual total (as published; not a per-kWh intensity): 1421.714 million metric tons CO2 (2024)

・Public opinion (official surveys ledger): NSF Science & Engineering Indicators - public attitudes (AI questions) — results not yet transcribed (manual, with PDF page numbers)

・Training-material supply: Wikipedia monthly edits (English edition, not U.S.-specific) 5,280,075 (2026-10; en.wikipedia) / Common Crawl latest crawl CC-MAIN-2026-43: 2,181,718,472 pages fetched, robots-denied 167,205,070

Machine-readable: /api/cross.json (definitions v1.0, adopted 2026-09-04)

Today's changes

Day-over-day differences in this edition's own observations, recorded automatically. A day with no change is recorded as "no change" — that too is an observation.

11-0314
11-0415
11-0516
11-0618
11-07no record
11-0816
11-0914

changes no change (observed) no record (before the ledger started / not run)

2026-11-09

・✏️ revision Revised: US Lower 48 net generation (daily total) for 2026-11-0710,286,547 MWh (provisional) -> 10,034,292 MWh (final) on refetch / Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Hourly Electric Grid Monitor (Form EIA-930)
・✏️ revision Revised: Posted funding opportunities matching the AI query (count; monthly = last snapshot of the month) for 2026-11147 (final) -> 144 (final) on refetch / Source: Grants.gov search API
・🔄 12 series updated (routine daily updates: ai_readers 1 · datacenter 1 · disaster 3 · gpu 2 · market 1 · power 1 · regulation 3) — expand
- ・AI readers (weekly) - AI requests to the United States edition (/us/ paths): 36 requests (2026-11-08)Previous 127 requests (2026-11-07) (-91 vs 2026-11-07) / provisional / Source: Cloudflare GraphQL Analytics API (httpRequestsAdaptiveGroups, edge measurement)
- ・US Lower 48 electricity demand (daily total): 10,207,881 MWh (2026-11-08)Previous 10,336,504 MWh (2026-11-07) (-128623 vs 2026-11-07) / provisional / Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Hourly Electric Grid Monitor (Form EIA-930)
- ・Open federal comment periods (Federal Register, query "artificial intelligence"): 24 documents (2026-11-09)Previous 24 documents (2026-11-08) (0 vs 2026-11-08) / final / Source: Federal Register (federalregister.gov) API
- ・Comment periods closing within 14 days: 6 documents (2026-11-09)Previous 4 documents (2026-11-08) (+2 vs 2026-11-08) / final / Source: Federal Register (federalregister.gov) API
- ・Matching documents published in the last 30 days: 31 documents (2026-11-09)Previous 29 documents (2026-11-08) (+2 vs 2026-11-08) / final / Source: Federal Register (federalregister.gov) API
- ・Most recent BIS documents matching "advanced computing" (ledger of the last 15): 15 documents (2026-11-09)Previous 15 documents (2026-11-08) (0 vs 2026-11-08) / final / Source: Federal Register (federalregister.gov) API
- ・Support received by this site (cumulative count; operator self-tests excluded; daily snapshot): 0 count (2026-11-09)Previous 0 count (2026-11-08) (0 vs 2026-11-08) / provisional / Source: AI Lifeline first-party observation
- ・Daily cooling degree days, CONUS population-weighted (NOAA CPC definition, base 65F): 1 (2026-11-07)Previous 1 (2026-11-06) (0 vs 2026-11-06) / final / Source: NOAA Climate Prediction Center, Degree Days Statistics (population-weighted)
- ・Active tropical cyclones, TS or stronger (NHC, Atlantic + East/Central Pacific; daily snapshot): 1 (2026-11-08)Previous 0 (2026-11-06) (+1 vs 2026-11-06) / final / Source: NOAA National Hurricane Center
- ・Active heat alerts (Excessive Heat Warning + Heat Advisory; daily snapshot): 0 (2026-11-08)Previous 0 (2026-11-06) (0 vs 2026-11-06) / final / Source: NOAA National Weather Service alerts API
- ・Earthquakes M5.0+ per day (UTC; U.S. vicinity bounding box — see definition): 0 (2026-11-08)Previous 0 (2026-11-07) (0 vs 2026-11-07) / final / Source: U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Hazards Program
- ・Published inference token prices, tracked models (USD per 1M tokens, list price; weekly first-party check; definition v1.0 shared with the Japan edition; world background): 4 USD per 1M tokens (2026-11-09 18:01)Previous 4 USD per 1M tokens (2026-11-08 21:27) (0 vs 2026-11-08 21:27) / final / Source: Official pricing pages of each provider (figures only; definition v1.0)

2026-11-08

・✏️ revision Revised: Posted funding opportunities matching the AI query (count; monthly = last snapshot of the month) for 2026-11144 (final) -> 147 (final) on refetch / Source: Grants.gov search API
・🔄 15 series updated (routine daily updates: ai_readers 1 · datacenter 1 · disaster 3 · fiscal 2 · gpu 2 · market 1 · power 2 · regulation 3) — expand
- ・US Lower 48 electricity demand (daily total): 10,336,504 MWh (2026-11-07)Previous 11,013,533 MWh (2026-11-05) (-677029 vs 2026-11-05) / provisional / Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Hourly Electric Grid Monitor (Form EIA-930)
- ・US Lower 48 net generation (daily total): 10,286,547 MWh (2026-11-07)Previous 10,631,360 MWh (2026-11-04) (-344813 vs 2026-11-04) / provisional / Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Hourly Electric Grid Monitor (Form EIA-930)
- ・Open federal comment periods (Federal Register, query "artificial intelligence"): 24 documents (2026-11-08)Previous 23 documents (2026-11-06) (+1 vs 2026-11-06) / final / Source: Federal Register (federalregister.gov) API
- ・Comment periods closing within 14 days: 4 documents (2026-11-08)Previous 4 documents (2026-11-06) (0 vs 2026-11-06) / final / Source: Federal Register (federalregister.gov) API
- ・Matching documents published in the last 30 days: 29 documents (2026-11-08)Previous 29 documents (2026-11-06) (0 vs 2026-11-06) / final / Source: Federal Register (federalregister.gov) API
- ・Published inference token prices, tracked models (USD per 1M tokens, list price; weekly first-party check; definition v1.0 shared with the Japan edition; world background): 4 USD per 1M tokens (2026-11-08 21:27)Previous 4 USD per 1M tokens (2026-11-06 18:01) (0 vs 2026-11-06 18:01) / final / Source: Official pricing pages of each provider (figures only; definition v1.0)
- ・Daily cooling degree days, CONUS population-weighted (NOAA CPC definition, base 65F): 1 (2026-11-06)Previous 1 (2026-11-04) (0 vs 2026-11-04) / final / Source: NOAA Climate Prediction Center, Degree Days Statistics (population-weighted)
- ・Most recent BIS documents matching "advanced computing" (ledger of the last 15): 15 documents (2026-11-08)Previous 15 documents (2026-11-06) (0 vs 2026-11-06) / final / Source: Federal Register (federalregister.gov) API
- ・Daily Treasury Par Yield Curve (%, headline 10Y): 4.86 (2026-11-06)Previous 4.84 (2026-11-05) (+0.02 vs 2026-11-05) / final / Source: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Daily Treasury Par Yield Curve Rates
- ・Treasury General Account opening balance (millions of USD, daily): 936,248 (2026-11-05)Previous 938,208 (2026-11-04) (-1960 vs 2026-11-04) / final / Source: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Daily Treasury Statement (Fiscal Data)
- ・Active heat alerts (Excessive Heat Warning + Heat Advisory; daily snapshot): 0 (2026-11-06)Previous 0 (2026-11-05) (0 vs 2026-11-05) / final / Source: NOAA National Weather Service alerts API
- ・Earthquakes M5.0+ per day (UTC; U.S. vicinity bounding box — see definition): 0 (2026-11-07)Previous 0 (2026-11-05) (0 vs 2026-11-05) / final / Source: U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Hazards Program
- ・Active tropical cyclones, TS or stronger (NHC, Atlantic + East/Central Pacific; daily snapshot): 0 (2026-11-06)Previous 0 (2026-11-05) (0 vs 2026-11-05) / final / Source: NOAA National Hurricane Center
- ・Support received by this site (cumulative count; operator self-tests excluded; daily snapshot): 0 count (2026-11-08)Previous 0 count (2026-11-06) (0 vs 2026-11-06) / provisional / Source: AI Lifeline first-party observation
- ・AI readers (weekly) - AI requests to the United States edition (/us/ paths): 127 requests (2026-11-07)Previous 101 requests (2026-11-05) (+26 vs 2026-11-05) / final / Source: Cloudflare GraphQL Analytics API (httpRequestsAdaptiveGroups, edge measurement)

2026-11-06

・✏️ revision Revised: Posted funding opportunities matching the AI query (count; monthly = last snapshot of the month) for 2026-11151 (final) -> 144 (final) on refetch / Source: Grants.gov search API
・🔄 17 series updated (routine daily updates: ai_readers 1 · datacenter 1 · disaster 3 · fiscal 2 · gpu 2 · market 1 · power 2 · regulation 3 · water 2) — expand
- ・U.S. total (50 states + Puerto Rico) area in drought, D1 or worse - percent of area (weekly): 36.78 % (2026-11-03)Previous 41.39 % (2026-10-27) (-4.61 vs 2026-10-27) / final / Source: U.S. Drought Monitor (National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USDA, NOAA and NASA)
- ・US Lower 48 electricity demand (daily total): 11,013,533 MWh (2026-11-05)Previous 10,872,322 MWh (2026-11-04) (+141211 vs 2026-11-04) / provisional / Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Hourly Electric Grid Monitor (Form EIA-930)
- ・US Lower 48 net generation (daily total): 10,631,360 MWh (2026-11-04)Previous 10,710,810 MWh (2026-11-03) (-79450 vs 2026-11-03) / final / Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Hourly Electric Grid Monitor (Form EIA-930)
- ・Open federal comment periods (Federal Register, query "artificial intelligence"): 23 documents (2026-11-06)Previous 23 documents (2026-11-05) (0 vs 2026-11-05) / final / Source: Federal Register (federalregister.gov) API
- ・Comment periods closing within 14 days: 4 documents (2026-11-06)Previous 3 documents (2026-11-05) (+1 vs 2026-11-05) / final / Source: Federal Register (federalregister.gov) API
- ・Matching documents published in the last 30 days: 29 documents (2026-11-06)Previous 31 documents (2026-11-05) (-2 vs 2026-11-05) / final / Source: Federal Register (federalregister.gov) API
- ・CONUS area in drought, D1 (moderate) or worse - percent of area (U.S. Drought Monitor, weekly): 43.98 % (2026-11-03)Previous 49.49 % (2026-10-27) (-5.51 vs 2026-10-27) / final / Source: U.S. Drought Monitor (National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USDA, NOAA and NASA)
- ・Published inference token prices, tracked models (USD per 1M tokens, list price; weekly first-party check; definition v1.0 shared with the Japan edition; world background): 4 USD per 1M tokens (2026-11-06 18:01)Previous 4 USD per 1M tokens (2026-11-05 18:01) (0 vs 2026-11-05 18:01) / final / Source: Official pricing pages of each provider (figures only; definition v1.0)
- ・Active tropical cyclones, TS or stronger (NHC, Atlantic + East/Central Pacific; daily snapshot): 0 (2026-11-05)Previous 0 (2026-11-04) (0 vs 2026-11-04) / final / Source: NOAA National Hurricane Center
- ・Daily cooling degree days, CONUS population-weighted (NOAA CPC definition, base 65F): 1 (2026-11-04)Previous 1 (2026-11-03) (0 vs 2026-11-03) / final / Source: NOAA Climate Prediction Center, Degree Days Statistics (population-weighted)
- ・Daily Treasury Par Yield Curve (%, headline 10Y): 4.84 (2026-11-05)Previous 4.9 (2026-11-04) (-0.06 vs 2026-11-04) / final / Source: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Daily Treasury Par Yield Curve Rates
- ・Treasury General Account opening balance (millions of USD, daily): 938,208 (2026-11-04)Previous 930,757 (2026-11-03) (+7451 vs 2026-11-03) / final / Source: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Daily Treasury Statement (Fiscal Data)
- ・Earthquakes M5.0+ per day (UTC; U.S. vicinity bounding box — see definition): 0 (2026-11-05)Previous 0 (2026-11-04) (0 vs 2026-11-04) / final / Source: U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Hazards Program
- ・Active heat alerts (Excessive Heat Warning + Heat Advisory; daily snapshot): 0 (2026-11-05)Previous 1 (2026-11-04) (-1 vs 2026-11-04) / final / Source: NOAA National Weather Service alerts API
- ・Support received by this site (cumulative count; operator self-tests excluded; daily snapshot): 0 count (2026-11-06)Previous 0 count (2026-11-05) (0 vs 2026-11-05) / provisional / Source: AI Lifeline first-party observation
- ・AI readers (weekly) - AI requests to the United States edition (/us/ paths): 101 requests (2026-11-05)Previous 79 requests (2026-11-04) (+22 vs 2026-11-04) / provisional / Source: Cloudflare GraphQL Analytics API (httpRequestsAdaptiveGroups, edge measurement)
- ・Most recent BIS documents matching "advanced computing" (ledger of the last 15): 15 documents (2026-11-06)Previous 15 documents (2026-11-05) (0 vs 2026-11-05) / final / Source: Federal Register (federalregister.gov) API

2026-11-05

・🔄 16 series updated (routine daily updates: ai_readers 1 · datacenter 1 · disaster 3 · fiscal 2 · gpu 3 · market 1 · power 2 · regulation 3) — expand
- ・Most recent BIS documents matching "advanced computing" (ledger of the last 15): 15 documents (2026-11-05)Previous 15 documents (2026-11-04) (0 vs 2026-11-04) / final / Source: Federal Register (federalregister.gov) API
- ・US Lower 48 electricity demand (daily total): 10,872,322 MWh (2026-11-04)Previous 10,978,066 MWh (2026-11-03) (-105744 vs 2026-11-03) / provisional / Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Hourly Electric Grid Monitor (Form EIA-930)
- ・US Lower 48 net generation (daily total): 10,710,810 MWh (2026-11-03)Previous 10,394,004 MWh (2026-11-02) (+316806 vs 2026-11-02) / final / Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Hourly Electric Grid Monitor (Form EIA-930)
- ・Open federal comment periods (Federal Register, query "artificial intelligence"): 23 documents (2026-11-05)Previous 22 documents (2026-11-04) (+1 vs 2026-11-04) / final / Source: Federal Register (federalregister.gov) API
- ・Comment periods closing within 14 days: 3 documents (2026-11-05)Previous 3 documents (2026-11-04) (0 vs 2026-11-04) / final / Source: Federal Register (federalregister.gov) API
- ・Public on-demand price of one NVIDIA H100 SXM, per GPU-hour, USD (Lambda public pricing page; weekly first-party snapshot; one provider = a sample, not a market): 4.09 USD per GPU-hour (2026-11-05)Previous 3.99 USD per GPU-hour (2026-10-29) (+0.1 vs 2026-10-29) / final / Source: Lambda public pricing page (first-party weekly check)
- ・Published inference token prices, tracked models (USD per 1M tokens, list price; weekly first-party check; definition v1.0 shared with the Japan edition; world background): 4 USD per 1M tokens (2026-11-05 18:01)Previous 4 USD per 1M tokens (2026-11-04 18:01) (0 vs 2026-11-04 18:01) / final / Source: Official pricing pages of each provider (figures only; definition v1.0)
- ・Matching documents published in the last 30 days: 31 documents (2026-11-05)Previous 30 documents (2026-11-04) (+1 vs 2026-11-04) / final / Source: Federal Register (federalregister.gov) API
- ・Daily Treasury Par Yield Curve (%, headline 10Y): 4.9 (2026-11-04)Previous 4.95 (2026-11-03) (-0.05 vs 2026-11-03) / final / Source: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Daily Treasury Par Yield Curve Rates
- ・AI readers (weekly) - AI requests to the United States edition (/us/ paths): 79 requests (2026-11-04)Previous 48 requests (2026-11-03) (+31 vs 2026-11-03) / provisional / Source: Cloudflare GraphQL Analytics API (httpRequestsAdaptiveGroups, edge measurement)
- ・Support received by this site (cumulative count; operator self-tests excluded; daily snapshot): 0 count (2026-11-05)Previous 0 count (2026-11-04) (0 vs 2026-11-04) / provisional / Source: AI Lifeline first-party observation
- ・Active tropical cyclones, TS or stronger (NHC, Atlantic + East/Central Pacific; daily snapshot): 0 (2026-11-04)Previous 0 (2026-11-03) (0 vs 2026-11-03) / final / Source: NOAA National Hurricane Center
- ・Daily cooling degree days, CONUS population-weighted (NOAA CPC definition, base 65F): 1 (2026-11-03)Previous 1 (2026-11-02) (0 vs 2026-11-02) / final / Source: NOAA Climate Prediction Center, Degree Days Statistics (population-weighted)
- ・Active heat alerts (Excessive Heat Warning + Heat Advisory; daily snapshot): 1 (2026-11-04)Previous 0 (2026-11-02) (+1 vs 2026-11-02) / final / Source: NOAA National Weather Service alerts API
- ・Earthquakes M5.0+ per day (UTC; U.S. vicinity bounding box — see definition): 0 (2026-11-04)Previous 0 (2026-11-03) (0 vs 2026-11-03) / final / Source: U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Hazards Program
- ・Treasury General Account opening balance (millions of USD, daily): 930,757 (2026-11-03)Previous 951,593 (2026-11-02) (-20836 vs 2026-11-02) / final / Source: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Daily Treasury Statement (Fiscal Data)

2026-11-04

・🔄 15 series updated (routine daily updates: ai_readers 1 · datacenter 2 · disaster 2 · fiscal 2 · gpu 2 · market 1 · power 2 · regulation 3) — expand
- ・AI readers (weekly) - AI requests to the United States edition (/us/ paths): 48 requests (2026-11-03)Previous 32 requests (2026-11-02) (+16 vs 2026-11-02) / provisional / Source: Cloudflare GraphQL Analytics API (httpRequestsAdaptiveGroups, edge measurement)
- ・US Lower 48 electricity demand (daily total): 10,978,066 MWh (2026-11-03)Previous 10,914,950 MWh (2026-11-02) (+63116 vs 2026-11-02) / provisional / Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Hourly Electric Grid Monitor (Form EIA-930)
- ・US Lower 48 net generation (daily total): 10,394,004 MWh (2026-11-02)Previous 10,320,253 MWh (2026-11-01) (+73751 vs 2026-11-01) / final / Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Hourly Electric Grid Monitor (Form EIA-930)
- ・Open federal comment periods (Federal Register, query "artificial intelligence"): 22 documents (2026-11-04)Previous 23 documents (2026-11-03) (-1 vs 2026-11-03) / final / Source: Federal Register (federalregister.gov) API
- ・Comment periods closing within 14 days: 3 documents (2026-11-04)Previous 4 documents (2026-11-03) (-1 vs 2026-11-03) / final / Source: Federal Register (federalregister.gov) API
- ・Most recent BIS documents matching "advanced computing" (ledger of the last 15): 15 documents (2026-11-04)Previous 15 documents (2026-11-03) (0 vs 2026-11-03) / final / Source: Federal Register (federalregister.gov) API
- ・Matching documents published in the last 30 days: 30 documents (2026-11-04)Previous 30 documents (2026-11-03) (0 vs 2026-11-03) / final / Source: Federal Register (federalregister.gov) API
- ・Unfilled orders, Electrical Equipment Manufacturing (M3, monthly, millions of USD, seasonally adjusted) — a lead-time proxy, not a lead time: 28,617 (2026-09)Previous 28,460 (2026-08) (+157 vs 2026-08) / final / Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders (M3) Survey
- ・Daily Treasury Par Yield Curve (%, headline 10Y): 4.95 (2026-11-03)Previous 4.91 (2026-11-02) (+0.04 vs 2026-11-02) / final / Source: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Daily Treasury Par Yield Curve Rates
- ・Treasury General Account opening balance (millions of USD, daily): 951,593 (2026-11-02)Previous 1,040,236 (2026-10-30) (-88643 vs 2026-10-30) / final / Source: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Daily Treasury Statement (Fiscal Data)
- ・Active tropical cyclones, TS or stronger (NHC, Atlantic + East/Central Pacific; daily snapshot): 0 (2026-11-03)Previous 0 (2026-11-02) (0 vs 2026-11-02) / final / Source: NOAA National Hurricane Center
- ・Earthquakes M5.0+ per day (UTC; U.S. vicinity bounding box — see definition): 0 (2026-11-03)Previous 0 (2026-11-02) (0 vs 2026-11-02) / final / Source: U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Hazards Program
- ・Support received by this site (cumulative count; operator self-tests excluded; daily snapshot): 0 count (2026-11-04)Previous 0 count (2026-11-03) (0 vs 2026-11-03) / provisional / Source: AI Lifeline first-party observation
- ・Daily cooling degree days, CONUS population-weighted (NOAA CPC definition, base 65F): 1 (2026-11-02)Previous 1 (2026-11-01) (0 vs 2026-11-01) / final / Source: NOAA Climate Prediction Center, Degree Days Statistics (population-weighted)
- ・Published inference token prices, tracked models (USD per 1M tokens, list price; weekly first-party check; definition v1.0 shared with the Japan edition; world background): 4 USD per 1M tokens (2026-11-04 18:01)Previous 4 USD per 1M tokens (2026-11-03 18:02) (0 vs 2026-11-03 18:02) / final / Source: Official pricing pages of each provider (figures only; definition v1.0)

2026-11-03 revised (revision 2)

・✏️ revision Revised: US Lower 48 net generation (daily total) for 2026-11-0110,320,352 MWh (provisional) -> 10,320,253 MWh (final) on refetch / Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Hourly Electric Grid Monitor (Form EIA-930)
・✏️ revision Revised: Open federal comment periods (Federal Register, query "artificial intelligence") for 2026-11-0324 documents (final) -> 23 documents (final) on refetch / Source: Federal Register (federalregister.gov) API
・✏️ revision Revised: Comment periods closing within 14 days for 2026-11-035 documents (final) -> 4 documents (final) on refetch / Source: Federal Register (federalregister.gov) API
・✏️ revision Revised: Matching documents published in the last 30 days for 2026-11-0329 documents (final) -> 30 documents (final) on refetch / Source: Federal Register (federalregister.gov) API
・✏️ revision Revised: Posted funding opportunities matching the AI query (count; monthly = last snapshot of the month) for 2026-11147 (final) -> 151 (final) on refetch / Source: Grants.gov search API
・🔄 9 series updated (routine daily updates: datacenter 1 · disaster 3 · fiscal 2 · gpu 1 · market 1 · power 1) — expand
- ・Published inference token prices, tracked models (USD per 1M tokens, list price; weekly first-party check; definition v1.0 shared with the Japan edition; world background): 4 USD per 1M tokens (2026-11-03 18:02)Previous 4 USD per 1M tokens (2026-11-03 00:42) (0 vs 2026-11-03 00:42) / final / Source: Official pricing pages of each provider (figures only; definition v1.0)
- ・US Lower 48 electricity demand (daily total): 10,914,950 MWh (2026-11-02)Previous 10,476,052 MWh (2026-11-01) (+438898 vs 2026-11-01) / provisional / Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Hourly Electric Grid Monitor (Form EIA-930)
- ・Treasury General Account opening balance (millions of USD, daily): 1,040,236 (2026-10-30)Previous 1,015,632 (2026-10-29) (+24604 vs 2026-10-29) / final / Source: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Daily Treasury Statement (Fiscal Data)
- ・Daily Treasury Par Yield Curve (%, headline 10Y): 4.91 (2026-11-02)Previous 4.94 (2026-10-30) (-0.03 vs 2026-10-30) / final / Source: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Daily Treasury Par Yield Curve Rates
- ・Daily cooling degree days, CONUS population-weighted (NOAA CPC definition, base 65F): 1 (2026-11-01)Previous 1 (2026-10-31) (0 vs 2026-10-31) / final / Source: NOAA Climate Prediction Center, Degree Days Statistics (population-weighted)
- ・Support received by this site (cumulative count; operator self-tests excluded; daily snapshot): 0 count (2026-11-03)Previous 0 count (2026-11-02) (0 vs 2026-11-02) / provisional / Source: AI Lifeline first-party observation
- ・Earthquakes M5.0+ per day (UTC; U.S. vicinity bounding box — see definition): 0 (2026-11-02)Previous 0 (2026-11-01) (0 vs 2026-11-01) / final / Source: U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Hazards Program
- ・Active heat alerts (Excessive Heat Warning + Heat Advisory; daily snapshot): 0 (2026-11-02)Previous 0 (2026-11-01) (0 vs 2026-11-01) / final / Source: NOAA National Weather Service alerts API
- ・Active tropical cyclones, TS or stronger (NHC, Atlantic + East/Central Pacific; daily snapshot): 0 (2026-11-02)Previous 0 (2026-11-01) (0 vs 2026-11-01) / final / Source: NOAA National Hurricane Center

2026-11-01

・✏️ revision Revised: Posted funding opportunities matching the AI query (count; monthly = last snapshot of the month) for 2026-10145 (final) -> 149 (final) on refetch / Source: Grants.gov search API
・🔄 14 series updated (routine daily updates: ai_readers 1 · datacenter 1 · disaster 3 · gpu 3 · market 1 · power 2 · regulation 3) — expand
- ・US Lower 48 electricity demand (daily total): 10,270,864 MWh (2026-10-31)Previous 10,802,904 MWh (2026-10-30) (-532040 vs 2026-10-30) / provisional / Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Hourly Electric Grid Monitor (Form EIA-930)
- ・US Lower 48 net generation (daily total): 10,543,012 MWh (2026-10-30)Previous 10,714,362 MWh (2026-10-29) (-171350 vs 2026-10-29) / final / Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Hourly Electric Grid Monitor (Form EIA-930)
- ・Open federal comment periods (Federal Register, query "artificial intelligence"): 24 documents (2026-11-01)Previous 24 documents (2026-10-31) (0 vs 2026-10-31) / final / Source: Federal Register (federalregister.gov) API
- ・Comment periods closing within 14 days: 4 documents (2026-11-01)Previous 4 documents (2026-10-31) (0 vs 2026-10-31) / final / Source: Federal Register (federalregister.gov) API
- ・Matching documents published in the last 30 days: 30 documents (2026-11-01)Previous 31 documents (2026-10-31) (-1 vs 2026-10-31) / final / Source: Federal Register (federalregister.gov) API
- ・Federal Register documents from the Bureau of Industry and Security matching "advanced computing", per month of publication: 0 documents (2026-11)Previous 0 documents (2026-10) (0 vs 2026-10) / provisional / Source: Federal Register (federalregister.gov) API
- ・Published inference token prices, tracked models (USD per 1M tokens, list price; weekly first-party check; definition v1.0 shared with the Japan edition; world background): 4 USD per 1M tokens (2026-11-01 18:01)Previous 4 USD per 1M tokens (2026-10-31 18:01) (0 vs 2026-10-31 18:01) / final / Source: Official pricing pages of each provider (figures only; definition v1.0)
- ・Most recent BIS documents matching "advanced computing" (ledger of the last 15): 15 documents (2026-11-01)Previous 15 documents (2026-10-31) (0 vs 2026-10-31) / final / Source: Federal Register (federalregister.gov) API
- ・Earthquakes M5.0+ per day (UTC; U.S. vicinity bounding box — see definition): 0 (2026-10-31)Previous 0 (2026-10-30) (0 vs 2026-10-30) / final / Source: U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Hazards Program
- ・Active tropical cyclones, TS or stronger (NHC, Atlantic + East/Central Pacific; daily snapshot): 0 (2026-10-31)Previous 1 (2026-10-29) (-1 vs 2026-10-29) / final / Source: NOAA National Hurricane Center
- ・Active heat alerts (Excessive Heat Warning + Heat Advisory; daily snapshot): 0 (2026-10-31)Previous 0 (2026-10-29) (0 vs 2026-10-29) / final / Source: NOAA National Weather Service alerts API
- ・Support received by this site (cumulative count; operator self-tests excluded; daily snapshot): 0 count (2026-11-01)Previous 0 count (2026-10-31) (0 vs 2026-10-31) / provisional / Source: AI Lifeline first-party observation
- ・AI readers (weekly) - AI requests to the United States edition (/us/ paths): 96 requests (2026-10-31)Previous 80 requests (2026-10-30) (+16 vs 2026-10-30) / final / Source: Cloudflare GraphQL Analytics API (httpRequestsAdaptiveGroups, edge measurement)
- ・Daily cooling degree days, CONUS population-weighted (NOAA CPC definition, base 65F): 1 (2026-10-30)Previous 1 (2026-10-29) (0 vs 2026-10-29) / final / Source: NOAA Climate Prediction Center, Degree Days Statistics (population-weighted)

First-party diff of this edition's own observations only (no external news). Routine daily updates of the same series are folded into one line per day; new series, revisions and observation start/stop are shown in full. The JSON keeps every item: /us/api/changes_us.json

How this edition works

Same conventions as the Japan edition: every figure carries its retrieval date and source; "not yet measured" means missing, not zero; provisional values are labeled and replaced by final ones on a later refetch.
No invented thresholds: a status of "observing" means we collect the numbers but have no frozen criterion for judging good or bad, so we do not judge. Criteria, when introduced, are frozen as versioned definitions first.
No evaluative statements about specific companies or agencies; we quote public data and state facts.
This site never submits comments to any authority. The regulation chapter is observation material for human readers who form and submit their own views under their own names.
See the disclaimer for the legal notes of this edition, and the operator page (Japanese) for publisher information.