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Molly Taft

@mollytaft.com
9 posts
2026-02-01
i was actually shocked to see the numbers on new research from Global Energy Monitor on new gas projects in the US: nearly 100 gigawatts of power—enough to power tens of millions of homes—are currently in development explicitly to power data centers.  At the end of 2023 that number was 4 gigawatts
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Wired

Global Energy Monitor: over 97 GW of gas-fired power in the US pipeline were explicitly earmarked for data centers in 2025, compared with just 4 GW in 2024

Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor.

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2026-01-31
i was actually shocked to see the numbers on new research from Global Energy Monitor on new gas projects in the US: nearly 100 gigawatts of power—enough to power tens of millions of homes—are currently in development explicitly to power data centers.  At the end of 2023 that number was 4 gigawatts
2026-01-31 View on X
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Global Energy Monitor: over 97 GW of gas-fired power in the US pipeline were explicitly earmarked for data centers in 2025, compared with just 4 GW in 2024

Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor.

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2025-11-16
NEW from me: a new report found that national resistance to data centers skyrocketed between March and June of this year—especially in red states like Georgia and Indiana:
2025-11-16 View on X
Wired

Data Center Watch: local opposition blocked or delayed 17 US data center projects worth $98B in Q2 2025, vs. 16 projects worth $64B from May 2024 to March 2025

So here: Ketan Joshi / @ketanjoshi.co : This @mollytaft.com piece is the closest I've seen to an interrogation of who 10a Labs are and why they're doing this - but note how 10a Lab...

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2025-11-15
NEW from me: a new report found that national resistance to data centers skyrocketed between March and June of this year—especially in red states like Georgia and Indiana:
2025-11-15 View on X
Wired

Data Center Watch: local opposition blocked or delayed 17 US data center projects worth $98B in Q2 2025, vs. 16 projects worth $64B from May 2024 to March 2025

A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year.

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2025-09-11
just passed a fleet of.....potentially........Klarna Ubers? [image]
2025-09-11 View on X
Bloomberg

Klarna's shares closed up 14.55% at $45.82 in its NYSE debut, giving it a $17B+ market cap, after the company and some of its backers raised $1.37B in its IPO

svenska handelsbanken 1.27  —  tf bank 1.32  —  swedbank 1.46  —  norion bank 1.48  —  skandinaviska enskilda banken 1.66  —  klarna bank ab 7.25 [embedded post] Molly Taft / @moll...

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2025-07-03
BREAKING: despite months of community opposition and a looming lawsuit, a local health department has granted XAI a permit to keep running its gas turbines to power Grok:
2025-07-03 View on X
Wired

Memphis grants xAI an air permit to operate 15 gas turbines at its Boxtown campus until 2027, despite protests and a potential NAACP lawsuit over pollution

“This isn't just an environmental issue — it's a public health emergency,” wrote State Rep. Justin Pearson. @wired.com : Colossus allowed xAI to quickly catch up to rivals OpenAI, ...

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2025-06-11
could the 10-year AI moratorium in the megabill ban legislation around data center sitings? a group of bipartisan politicans, from Thomas Massie to state-level legislators, are voicing concerns about it — the latest in the new battle over where, exactly, we're going to put these things:
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Wired

President Trump's Big Beautiful Bill could restrict state-level legislation over data centers, including water use, raising bipartisan objections across the US

An AI-related provision in the “Big Beautiful Bill” could restrict state-level legislation of energy-hungry data centers—and is raising bipartisan objections across the US.

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2025-05-07
this is one of the more depressing things i have read this year thus far, which is really saying something given this year
2025-05-07 View on X
New York Magazine

How ChatGPT and other AI tools enable systemic cheating in college, unravelling the entire academic project; one student says “the ceiling has been blown off”

ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.  —  Chungin “Roy” Lee stepped onto Columbia University's campus …

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2024-12-28
no further sign of tech executive brain rot re: AI than meta making this announcement like it's something exciting that people actually want. everyone i have talked to this holiday season hates how much slop is on social media. i have barely been on instagram recently bc of it
2024-12-28 View on X
Financial Times

Meta expects AI-generated characters to “generate and share content” and “over time, exist on our platforms”, similarly to regular accounts

Financial Times :

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