… because the IRS is generally better resourced than the various, often outgunned public utility commissions in each state that are supposed to regulate the power companies, and their deals with hyperscalers.

Was deffo worth a read 👍

One I hadn’t seen before was the notion of having an excise tax on electricity consumption, that gets recirculated into a public fund to various purposes, like rate relief, infrastructure investment that would otherwise be less likely, and so on. Using the IRS to collect it is tho is interesting

Thanks for catching it. I've deleted and reposted with the updated figure.

This is a corrected post I made earlier in the morning when I missed that I had written GW for Google's 400 MW CCS gas plant. 400 GW is much, much too big, and I'm grateful for @flowvoid.bsky.social for catching it before it shared too widely:

www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/goog...

Yes, that was the one. 400GW would be is preposterously large, even in the context of a hyperbolic social media post.

jeez, that'll teach me to post before coffee. Deleting the original post and reporting with the correct numbers

Argh! “Made the news”, clearly.

The day editing for typos comes to bluesky properly, I will be a happy man.