
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 So much for last week’s hope we could ignore antitrust and the EU. My apologies. Mostly we’re gearing up for the end-of-the-month’s CAPEX reports (what some people…

Further adventures in hypocrisy and blame-shifting from politicians who helped shut down gigawatts of generation capacity! The problem goes beyond Maine!

The playbook for politicians, policymakers and the press is clear when electricity prices rise: blame the boogeyman! AI! Big Tech! Data Centers! (Bonus points if you use those same data centers to complain about data centers!) The snag in this case is none of those culprits exist in Maine. The state has maybe half a…