Energy Consumption and AI

Episode 11: Your Phone Dies on Tuesday

…Your phone dies on, uh, Tuesday. Not dramatically. There’s no sparks. There’s no drop. Uh, there’s no heroic last moment here.The battery, say, just gives up. You take it in. The answer comes back pretty quickly. This is not worth fixing. Too sealed, too integrated, too expensive, so you replace it.Now, multiply that moment by […]

Episode 10: The Northeast Blinks

There’s a certain sentence politicians use when they’re backing away from something without quite admitting it. usually sounds something like this: “We remain committed to our long term goals, but we have to be realistic about affordability. About reliability. We have to be realistic about market conditions.”That is retreat language. Just dressed up nicely. And […]

Donald Trump’s Obession with Offshore Wind

Imagine you’re trying to understand why Donald Trump keeps circling back to offshore wind. It shows up in his rallies, in truth social posts, and now it’s showing up in federal actions. the first thing to observe here is that to Trump, offshore wind doesn’t appear in speeches as an ordinary energy policy detail. Instead, […]

Energy Consumption and AI

I want to start with something small because that’s where the whole AI energy story gets weird. Picture this. you type a prompt into an AI tool. Write a five line poem about winter in New York. And then you hit enter.Okay. So let’s see what we get here.…Steam rises from the grates to meet […]

Episode 07 The Winter Olympics Are on Thin Ice

So picture this. You are watching the Winter Olympics. It’s prime time. The slope looks perfect, and the camera pans to a mountain that feels like it’s existed forever. Then your brain does the annoying thing brains do now, You start to notice the snow looks a little too uniform.Too bright, too manufactured. And you […]