Ben Inskeep
@Ben_Inskeep
Program Director @cacindiana | consumer & environmental advocate | #YesCers | he/him | views expressed are mine
Our @cacindiana updated interactive data center (DC) map is now tracking 28 DC proposals, including: - 11 DCs with anticipated power demand totaling 10,000 MW - 13 DCs with unknown, but likely substantial, planned power demand - 4 DC proposals that were withdrawn / stopped
Nice piece that exposes a dumbfounding assumption hidden in DOE's recent report: no new power plants connect after 2026. This impossible constraint renders DOE's report practically useless.
🔌💡 Our @brendanpierpont's recent piece in @UtilityDive examines the negative impact of propping up uneconomic "zombie power plants" 🧟🏭 utilitydive.com/news/doe-grid-…
Appalachian Power lost $81 million operating its three WV coal plants in the 12 months ending in February, according to new PSC testimony. That's double what the company previously disclosed. wvpublic.org/story/energy-e…
Just encountered some hot takes on the AI Action Plan, so I want to reiterate that the document's 1 page on energy: 1) is not a plan and 2) does not identify any entity that should take any action.
The Administration's "AI Action Plan" has less than 1 page on the power system. It is a mess. Here's what it says -- whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…
The AI Action Plan is even worse than I thought it'd be. A tech industry wishlist with every box ticked. It signals the further coherence of Silicon Valley and the Trump-led federal government into a cooperative, automation-bent surveillance state. It's a blueprint for dystopia.
Not only are AI loads inelastic, they value every watt 10x more than you do. They will pay you to curtail for them. Welcome to the new energy economy.
Jefferies: "The lack of DR is indeed an angle we had not anticipated. Yes, eventually peak shaving and other demand responses to higher capacity prices will motivate customers, but we appreciate that new load (Data Centers) appears to be quite price inelastic. This equally has…
Not a single wind project in Indiana bid into AES Indiana's all-source RFP despite the excellent wind resource in our state. The reason why? Local governments have banned wind turbines.
The price of solar panels has fallen dramatically in part because of learnings from *7 billion* solar panels being installed. How many SMRs will be manufactured? Lots of companies, many designs, but very few deployments. There will not be a similar learning curve effect!
On Tuesday the Susequehanna-1 #nuclear reactor in #Pennsylvania was manually scrammed at full power after the main transformer experienced a cooling loss. The reactor is still down today. Should be a warning to Amazon about the reliability of this plant to power its data center.
Child labor is deeply woven into the supply chains of major American corporations operating in the Global South. The US legal system protects their businessmen, not the poor children of the ivory coast, dozens of whom die every year due to working conditions. Under Neoliberalism,…
U.S. federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected a proposed class action by eight Malian citizens who sought to hold Hershey, Nestlé, and five other companies liable for child labor on Ivory Coast cocoa farms.
This is the surveillance state indoctrinating civilians into spying on everyone around them without their knowledge and consent. This is how fascism becomes normalised by dressing it up as content to be monetized for the benefit of few to the determinement of the majority.
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"Coal has exhibited reliability problems in serving the grid... From July 11 to July 12, 5,019 MW of coal-fired generation was offline across ERCOT—totaling 36.9% of the system’s accredited coal capacity of 13,596 MW." pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/07/22/sol…
Officials with the Citizens Action Coalition condemned Indiana utilities, including Duke and CenterPoint, for record breaking increases on electric bills throughout the state. tristatehomepage.com/news/indiana-n…
65% of increased capacity costs are coming from data centers
Last month, a report from Monitoring Analytics (PJM's market monitor) assigned more than $9B of the $14B bill from last year's auction to datacenters, both in operation and forecasts.
Well, Section 453 was approved yesterday. It provides pesticide companies, including giants like Bayer/Monsanto and Syngenta, with near-total protection from lawsuits, even when their products are later implicated in causing harm. This is NOT making America great again!
Google is negotiating the future of the open web in secret with 20 big publishers Indie publishers -- or info sources Google doesn't approve of -- are getting *locked out* of discussions We are witnessing an AI information CARTEL in formation⚖️
Big tech promotes the story that since ChatGPT burst onto the scene, AI has been so popular it's rushed to meet the demand. The reality is different. A study by a trio of design scholars shows tech co's have had to push AI on its users with a variety of intrusive tactics. 1/x
🚨 BREAKING: Monopoly Electric Utilities Slam Hoosiers with Historic Bill Hikes—Most Severe in at Least 2 Decades Our release today: #EnergyTwitter