{"id":360438,"date":"2026-08-27T03:02:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T03:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/gary-indiana-is-a-warning-energy-independence-has-gotten-personal\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T03:02:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T03:02:53","slug":"gary-indiana-is-a-warning-energy-independence-has-gotten-personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/gary-indiana-is-a-warning-energy-independence-has-gotten-personal\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary, Indiana is a warning: energy independence has gotten personal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/08\/gary-indiana-is-a-warning-energy-independence-has-gotten-personal.png\" alt=\"Electrek\"><\/p>\n<p>Nearly two weeks after a summer derecho knocked out power, tens of thousands of people in Gary, Indiana were still without power, with many taking to social media to highlight the reality of living through a prolonged blackout. While the utility made excuses, the data centers that powered the community\u2019s social media presence were humming along, built on a very different assumption: that the power MUST stay on. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/08\/26\/gary-indiana-is-a-warning-energy-independence-has-gotten-personal\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/gary-indiana-is-a-warning-energy-independence-has-gotten-personal\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":360439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}