Great moments in academia link.springer.com/article/10.100…

China is on track to become the world’s first major “electrostate,” with its electrification rate reaching 30%. This puts China ahead of both the EU and the US, where the proportion of electricity in total energy use has remained steady at about 22% in recent years.

In memory of Mister Wendt we’ll have $3 drafts of Old Style Beer tonight and all week until it runs out and donate a $1 from each to any charity his obituary mentions or if there is none to the Little Sisters of the Poor here in Chicago. Raise one for “Norm” this week frents…

If Tulsa gained $4 for every dollar spent attracting new residents (link in next tweet), what is it costing states like California to drive people away?

I have been briefed on the massive outages in New Orleans, Jefferson, and the North Shore. This is a load shed outage by our regional transmission organization. A generator tripped and there wasn’t enough energy to meet the demand so forced outages were order.

Both, like Schrödinger's cat, final answer

thank you, maya

How will Spotify pay musicians now?

We call dibs on The 78 😮‍💨 #cf97

This is cool x.com/lacherbauer/st…

I see you're spending $1,316,614 per new unit of "affordable housing." Have you tried zoning reform? washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/…

Head of ERCOT just made the case for data center flexibility in opening keynote at the Southeastern Regulatory Utility Commissioners (SEARUC) conference

Yes, final answer

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Increasingly think this might be the most important chart in the world right now

Fantastic thread from Tyler Norris, advisor to Emerald AI, on how AI data centers can be flexible in their power consumption to enable faster grid interconnection and AI innovation, greater grid reliability, and fewer rate increases for communities. Technical details below!

WHY SHIT NOT WORKING: EPISODE 11

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