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You Can’t Blame Data Centers in Seattle for Our Skyrocketing Electricity Prices
This post was originally published on GeekWire on April 20, 2026. I had noticed this “data centers in Seattle” PR op under way and flagged it in last week’s newsletter. After a vague report that some companies were seeking to build “large” data centers in Seattle, Mayor Katie Wilson is exploring a moratorium on new…
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Bionic Eyesight
Devices from science fiction are becoming real at a prodigious pace. Makes the phone-based augmented reality stuff look clunky.
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Hoping for Change: Monetary Policy Edition
Platformonomics does not usually do monetary economics (except maybe the virtual kind), but I just happened to be thinking about the Federal Reserve yesterday (admit it, so were you…) shortly before the news broke of Bernanke’s renomination. I was hoping for a more radical announcement: Software Bot To Be Nominated Chairman of Federal Reserve SystemCutting…
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Less Lobbying, More Bug-Fixing
Attention Mozilla: less lobbying, more bug fixing. Is Safari worth trying on Windows?
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Good for the Goose
Clusterstock goes one better than my totally whacky suggestion of holding Congress accountable for their actions and to the same standards they require from others through explicit fiduciary responsibility: Should we consider imprisoning Congressman who vote the wrong way on such laws as Glass Steagal repealmant. Not reining in Fannie and Freddie. Letting banks keep…
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Back(b)log
A few things I’ve been meaning to blog about: Firefox has become a buggy, bloated piece of code rivaling IE. It now crashes daily. Is there correlation or causation with Mozilla’s increased EU lobbying efforts? Both Firefox and IE disproportionately take the blame for the collection of bugs that is the Flash runtime, which in…