John Quigley

TSMC, the company that makes 90% of the world's advanced chips, draws 8.9% of Taiwan's total electricity. Gas disruption = Chip disruption

Gas prices continue to rapidly surge across Philadelphia area amid conflict with Iran For the past week, gas prices have been rising rapidly amid the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran.

I spoke with @cbsphiladelphia.bsky.social about the impact of the illegal and unconstitutional war in Iran on gasoline prices.

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An oil company quietly dug a surprisingly deep geothermal well Oxy drilled four miles down in Colorado, and did so quickly — a promising development for the geothermal industry.

This fossil fuel company is drilling for something new: Carbon-free heat four miles beneath the Earth that could power a geothermal plant.

From @cprnews.bsky.social:

Electrification of transportation is a national security and economic resilience strategy, which would work well for this exact scenario we are in right now.

Trump’s Alaska Oil, Gas Lease Sale Draws Zero Bids From Drillers The Trump administration’s first oil and gas lease sale in Alaska’s Cook Inlet received no bids, according to the US Interior Department, indicating tepid interest from drillers in that region.

The Trump administration’s first oil and gas lease sale in Alaska’s Cook Inlet received no bids, according to the US Interior Department, indicating tepid interest from drillers in that region

Plus, the big-tech signatories to the "pledge" are not the only entities building or proposing to build data centers. Speculative developers abound.

Grassroots Resistance to Data Centers Rises in Pennsylvania - Inside Climate News As community protests grow, both Democratic and Republican officials are proposing more industry regulation.

The "pledge" does not address the other significant, harmful impacts of data center development that are creating growing local opposition.

insideclimatenews.org/news/0303202...

Tech firms pledge to pay for AI data centre power costs. But will they? The agreement at the White House comes as rising electricity prices becomes a political problem.

I spoke with BBC about today's PR stunt.

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To bring the TL;DR up front: there is no particular evidence that an increasing share of wind + PV generation leads to higher prices, and the US states with the largest increase in wind + PV experienced electricity price reductions.

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I regret my decision to watch the White House / Big Tech press conference about their "ratepayer protection pledge."

The highlight was when he went off-script and admitted that this is all about providing "PR help" to Big Tech companies.

Burning the furniture to heat the house is actually unconstitutional in PA, though the state Supreme Court ruling has been ignored by the last 2 governors and the general assembly. See www.pedf.org/uploads/1/9/...

Gas prices are set to increase amid Iran war. Here's what we know. What to know about increasing gas prices amid the U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran and what it means for your wallet.

Spoke to @inquirer.com about energy price impacts of the (illegal, unconstitutional) war in Iran.

@kleinmanenergy.bsky.social

www.inquirer.com/news/nation-...

Riff Raff: Calling for a data center pause - Talk Business & Politics States and communities around the country have paused or are moving to pause data center developments. Such moves come from growing concerns about electricity demands, water use, water pollution, nois...

Mentioned here.

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AI: Does not compute Building fossil-fuel infrastructure to power data centers is a poor bet. Renewables are by far the cheaper, faster choice.

www.canarymedia.com/articles/dat...

YouTube video by MS NOW 'Follow the money': Maddow’s INSTANT REACTION to U.S. striking Iran

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$2M federal grant to help Pa. study electric grid updates as data center demand grows Pennsylvania agencies are teaming up with a powerful nonprofit to study ways to modernize the electric grid. The effort is funded by a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.

WESA - Rachel McDevitt: $2 Million Grant To Help Business Nonprofit Team PA Study Electric Grid Updates As A.I. Data Center Demand Grows www.wesa.fm/environment-...

Shrinking North American bird population is getting worse faster. Experts blame agriculture, warming A new study finds North American bird populations keep dropping, and that decline is speeding up for many species.

AP: Shrinking North American Bird Population Is Getting Worse Faster; Experts Blame Intensive Agriculture, Climate Warming apnews.com/article/bird...

Birds Aren’t Just Declining. They’re Declining Faster, a New Study Finds.

"Birds in the United States are not only declining, but they are declining faster, especially in areas with intensive agriculture...Overall drops in bird population, measured from 1987 to 2021, were sharpest in warm and warming areas, suggesting that climate change may play a role."

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Governors are promising lower power bills. Here’s the only credible path to deliver. If we treat every new megawatt like it must be served with new poles, wires, substations and peakers, we will lock in another decade of rate shock, write Jigar Shah and Arnab Pal from Deploy Action.

www.utilitydive.com/news/governo...

Gigantic Form Energy battery to power Google data center in Minnesota The startup has struck a deal with Xcel Energy to build a 30 gigawatt-hour battery plant that will deliver clean energy, round the clock, to a Google…

Canary Media: Pittsburgh Region Form Energy To Power Google A.I. Data Center In Minnesota [Why Don’t We Consider These In PA?] www.canarymedia.com/articles/bat...

Underdog Democrats lean into data center concerns Democrats in particular have seized on the prospect of rising energy costs in the fight for control of Washington and state capitals.

I'm quoted in this @politico.com piece.

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Underdog Democrats lean into data center concerns politi.co/4tTnJEb

Midterm underdogs rally around data center politics Democrats in particular have seized on the prospect of rising energy costs in the fight for control of Washington and state capitals.

Spoke to @eenews.bsky.social/@politico.com about the political implications of data centers.
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Stuck in Line Hi friends,

Clean energy is ready—but it’s stuck in line. Projects wait years in the interconnection queue, even as demand from AI and data centers surges. That bottleneck risks fossil lock-in and higher costs. If we want cheaper, cleaner power, we need to fix the backlog: hboushey.substack.com/p/stuck-in-l...

Ditto PJM, and maybe even some governors and state legislatures.

Your periodic reminder that markets don’t want to build the things the Trump administration is pushing. That’s a good thing for the planet. And someday, we will again have a WH who isn’t afraid of competitive markets.

Could a New Illinois Bill Be a Blueprint for Curbing Data Centers’ Climate Impacts? - Inside Climate News As data centers drive up energy demand, water usage and utility bills, advocates seek to make companies mitigate their climate and economic impacts.

A new Illinois bill aims to reduce the climate and affordability harms of the data center boom.

Remote Sensing-Based Monitoring Networks for the Next Generation of Energy and Environmental Policymaking Energy policy research from the University of Pennsylvania

I wrote a report about the potential of remote sensing for better environmental policy for @kleinmanenergy.bsky.social

kleinmanenergy.upenn.edu/research/pub...

Bravo, Philly!