Chris Gillett | Notes

This project lives at chrisgillett.org/ae-congestion.

Published in Works in Progress Magazine, Issue 24: Why American data centers can’t plug in.

Hydraulic Despotism The first state was a water utility.

We’ve learned a lot in the last year about what won’t work for accelerating time-to-power for large data center projects.

Electric power probably has the most fragmented structure of any industry.

All residential buildings in the U.S. together consume 9,481 trillion Btu of energy per year, spending $232.75 billion.

Each question is worth one point unless otherwise stated.

All commercial buildings in the U.S. together consume 6,787 trillion btu of energy per year, spending $141.238 billion.

There have been four periods in U.S. history when electricity rates rose faster than inflation: the early 1970s, the early 1980s, the mid 2000s, and the early 2020s.

Note: Opinions my own.