Stupid will do as stupid does.
12.02.2026 20:55
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Stupid will do as stupid does.
Just saying, Bad Bunny's show made me want IN. Will my hips ever move like that? Nope, but damn if I won't embarrass myself trying.
Also the bittersweet shout out to PREPA.
What's the best use case for a hyperboring XneuroGroket?
⛰️Really excellent and thoughtful piece by a Sierra Club board member on what it means to be an public interest environmental advocate today. davekarpf.substack.com/p/every-gene...
This weekend, the New York Times ran a story claiming Sierra Club’s values have diluted our mission. They couldn’t be more wrong. The list of their errors is too long for one social post, but we go over some examples in these slides.
The lesson is NOT that social justice will tear an organization apart. That's either a fundamental misunderstanding or an unspoken political agenda to maintain unjust systems. The lesson is that, like painting a room, most of the work is preparation.
*correction, the LinkedIn post was September. I posted to Bluesky back in June
bsky.app/profile/jere...
FYI, difference in maps is that NYT uses summer 2018/2019 to summer 2024/2025.
Back in June, I posted in LinkedIn about the relationship between renewable energy and rates, with a snappy map. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
and I was amused, I guess, to see that map show up in today's print edition. Thanks NYT?
Having a tough time reconciling NYT critiquing my org for relevance, and then literally posting my work as a full page graphic the next day.
I was at the Sierra Club during the period described in this article and although I have my criticisms, it gets the issues in the Club fundamentally wrong. A 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
💡And the Kansas Corporation Commission just approved Evergy's large load tariff - a leading example!
estar.kcc.ks.gov/estar/ViewFi...
New article on large load tariffs (utility ratemaking, not imports!), which are designed to buffer utilities and ratepayers from speculative data center developers. 💍https://www.sierraclub.org/articles/2025/11/put-ringfence-it-appreciation-large-load-tariffs
Declining coal sales from EIA Form 861M, 2008-2025, showing coal sales to power plants falling from 80 million tons per month to ~25 million tons
Its like the great countdown. This year is 2.0? Looks like 2030 will be 0.0.
I'm excited to join As You Sow, S&P Global, and Colectric for a webinar today launching the report Compute and Consequence - looking at utility and climate risk of data center growth.
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Hey Nevada PUC web techs... y'all ok?
Not too late to get in on the action, and join thousands of others as we dig into the impacts - and mitigations - for data center buildout. Join us on Wed at 7pm ET / 4pm PT.
🔌On Aug 20, I'll be hosting a public webinar exploring the scale of data center buildout, how utilities are reacting, and what policymakers and the public can do to protect health, rates, and our climate targets.
Register here!
act.sierraclub.org/events/detai...
On August 20, I'll be running a public webinar on the impacts of unconstrained data center growth on affordability, climate, and health - and what we can do about it. Join us here and share around!
act.sierraclub.org/events/detai...
A big old bubble? 23 utilities are claiming more than 700 gigawatts of data center in their "economic development pipeline" - which smells a lot like a speculation boom. www.sierraclub.org/articles/202...
I'm going to contend that DOE Sec Burgum's "capacity density" order is maybe the stupidest document ever leveled by that agency.
But, "based on common sense, arithmetic, and physics" what other metrics should we examine?
kWh per joule of insolation? tons of public land converted per MWh?
Motherfucking wind farms…
🔌On Aug 20, I'll be hosting a public webinar exploring the scale of data center buildout, how utilities are reacting, and what policymakers and the public can do to protect health, rates, and our climate targets.
Register here!
act.sierraclub.org/events/detai...
Join us for a public webinar on August 20th to learn about the data center explosion, and how states, regulators, and utilities are grappling with that growth.
act.sierraclub.org/events/detai...
We're calling on Big Tech to clean up their act.
Holding Google accountable for its climate commitments
Holding Meta accountable for its climate commitments
We Will Not Pay for Big Tech's Power Needs - Open Letter in SF Chron & Seattle Times
Holding Amazon accountable for its climate commitments
Yesterday, @sierraclub.org @amzn4climate.bsky.social @lcv.org and @publiccitizen.bsky.social published a full page open letter in SF and Seattle calling for big tech accountability for data center impacts!
www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...
We need attention on real issues, not smoke screens.
We need to ensure that large load customers, like data centers, are paying their own way.
We need to unlock low cost renewables that mitigate prices and fuel risk for everyone.
And we need to make tough decisions about living with climate change.
And now the very rapid rise of data centers and other very large load customers is having a very real effect on costs for customers as utilities scramble to build infrastructure.
www.synapse-energy.com/sites/defaul...
In the West, the cost of mitigating - and paying for - wildfires spiked electricity costs along the coast, leaving both utilities and regulators grasping at next steps. autl.assembly.ca.gov/system/files...
In electricity markets like PJM and MISO, new generation projects - and particularly renewables - got stuck waiting for approvals, at an enormous cost to customers.
blog.advancedenergyunited.org/in-pjm-renew...
www.synapse-energy.com/tackling-pjm...
