by Jeff Ihnen | Nov 12, 2024 | Energy Rant
Two weeks ago, I described the chasm before mass-market electric vehicle adoption. The chasm, as shown in Figure 1 and depicted in the EV Rant as a moat, is the gap between enthusiastic nerds and mainstream curmudgeons. I’m often among the mainstream...
by Jeff Ihnen | Oct 28, 2024 | Energy Rant
In September, I wrote a series of five Rants on data centers, a concise and comprehensive collection that might just be the Data Center Digest you never knew you needed! Chip and server power density, cooling, and projected GW load growth. Data center facilities...
by Jeff Ihnen | Oct 22, 2024 | Energy Rant
A recent study, Stacked Energyscapes, led by professors at Loyola Marymount University and Penn State University, caught my eye. The paper describes webs of complexities associated with transitions from fossil-fuel-powered economies to clean-energy economies. I...
by Jeff Ihnen | Oct 15, 2024 | Energy Rant
New York Attorney General Letitia James is suing JBS USA Foods, the country’s largest beef producer, for misleading the public with its net-zero greenhouse gas emissions plan by 2040. Not to be left behind, Attorneys General from Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, and...
by Jeff Ihnen | Oct 7, 2024 | Energy Rant
In the first post in this data center series, I introduced the staggering power density of neural computing systems used for artificial intelligence. At the macro level, in Northern Virginia alone, Dominion Energy projects data center load growth to increase from 3.3...
by Jeff Ihnen | Sep 30, 2024 | Energy Rant
I couldn’t pass this up to break from data centers for a second. One day last week, I read in the morning from the American Energy Society, “California Governor Gavin Newsom is trying to get control of wild gasoline spikes.” In the afternoon, I read...
