Brendon Slotterback
@bslotterback
Decarbonization. Likes charts. Helping philanthropy and government advance clean energy. PGH🌲 🚲
I’m confused, are you smoking during the zoom meeting? Or is it like, you flash this right before you go on break
Corporations get $100 billion in tariff refunds but fedex is billing me for a shipment from Japan
240 miles of gravel. I enjoyed the night riding more than expected!
Energy, not capacity, is actually driving more of the increase in wholesale power prices in PJM. Guess where we get most of our energy from? www.ifo.state.pa.us/download.cfm...
Narrative violation: multiple models of a high VRE electricity system with tremendous amounts of load growth show we only need about the same amount of firm capacity that we have today.
Helpful worker along the National Mall says fences are coming down tomorrow. As a visitor it looks and feels like a big mess.
When is it an implosion and when an explosion. Any way bridge is gone!
What is the actual climate impact of data centers? Climate pollution from Microsoft increased 25% in a single year, per @heatmap.news (and this data is fiscal year, so over a year old)
Just got my electricity bill. Since May of '25, no distribution charges have changed. The cost of supply alone has increased 30% in one year (now 11 cents/kWh). Supply is 80-95% gas, coal and nuclear. It would sure be great to have more free fuel in @pjminterconnection.bsky.social!
I don't think anyone knows where their AI compute is actually processed right now and the companies themselves won't tell you. My compute may already be off-shored to Canada or Ireland!
"We need to be clear-eyed about the real problems the data center build-out poses, because they are mounting. Making progress on the myriad issues packaged under “AI” is going to require separate work streams." Here's what the bill in Maine said:
The EIA projects a 52% increase in the price of gas from '25 to '32 in their Annual Energy Outlook. We should use gas for less things and/or export less of it.
Replacing 5” gutters with 6” because the former is just not up to the task anymore in this climate-changed world.
Incremental progress: I got up to a 10k! I know why runners measure in metric.