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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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Platformonomics TGIF #71: November 1, 2024
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email It is CAPEX Week!!! Our quarterly celebration of the Big, the Small and the Negative. Soon to be a major motion picture! My Writing A Post About…
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A Post About The Washington Post
Tl;dr – another installment of the media focusing on everyone’s business but their own I cancelled my subscription to the Washington Post last week, along with lots of other people it seems. But I didn’t cancel because of owner Jeff Bezos’ last-minute decision that the Post would not endorse a Presidential candidate. The (lack of)…
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Platformonomics TGIF #70: October 25, 2024
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email It is definitely scary clown season. News ClownWatch™: IBM Reports Negative CAPEX IBM shatters the zero lower bound to retain their crown as the clowniest CAPEX clown…
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Platformonomics TGIF #69: October 18, 2024
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email Busy week! News The Nuclear Call to Action To revisit my agenda from a couple years ago: The best time to build new nuclear plants was 20…
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Platformonomics TGIF #68: October 11, 2024
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email Another week of our favorite threads unspooling… News Antitrust Incoherence: Google Breakup Rumors We’re going through another round of Google remedy rumors. Some are legal posturing, some…