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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 #45: March 29, 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. The last two weeks have been eventful, so we have a lot to cover after my absence. Buckle up! News Amazon CAPEX Plans Bloomberg looks at cloud CAPEX and the accompanying “mad…
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Platformonomics TGIF #44: March 15, 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. No newsletter next week. But I hope to get the Clown Week update out before that. News Tik Tok’s Call to Arms: Useful Idiots, Fellow Travelers, Registered and Unregistered Foreign Agents Unite!…
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Platformonomics TGIF #43: March 8, 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. Short edition this week, despite the insanity. But Clown Week cometh! (Think Shark Week for CAPEX obsessives). News Behold the Nuclear Cloud Previous: Cloud Power Up, Nuclear Powered Cloud Data Centers Are…
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Platformonomics TGIF #42: March 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. News A CAPEX Obsessive’s Work is Never Done Previous: Follow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes 2023 Retrospective, Follow the CAPEX: Triangulating NVIDIA, more CAPEX Google: Still Not Code Red? We (yet) again…
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Platformonomics TGIF #41: February 23, 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. News Follow the CAPEX: Triangulating NVIDIA I wrote a post about what we can learn from the intersection of NVIDIA’s revenue and hypercloud CAPEX spending. Previous: Follow the CAPEX: Triangulating NVIDIA, more…