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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 #37: January 26, 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. You no doubt are in final preparations for next week. I certainly am. News Private Equity in Action: Media Division Private equity relentlessly demonstrates, despite all their claims to the contrary, they…
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Platformonomics TGIF #36: January 19, 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. Things still seem a little slow early in 2024. Not sure how much of that is the Davos reality distortion black hole and how much is people (wisely) saving their energy for…
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Platformonomics TGIF #35: January 12, 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. SUBSCRIBE Slowish week. No doubt everyone is busy preparing for the release of annual CAPEX numbers in a couple weeks. News Private Equity in Action: VMware First layoffs. Then price increases. Now…
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Platformonomics TGIF #34: January 5, 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. We’re back and Happy New Year! We’ll start the year with some predictions about what will (and will not) happen in 2024 (at least as it will be chronicled here). We Will…
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Platformonomics TGIF #33: December 8, 2023
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. This is the last issue of the year. May your new year be filled with non-performative competence, pluralism, reason, universalism and vigor (a contrarian hope to be sure). News AI Marketing Hallucinations:…