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Jeremy Fisher @jeremyfisher.bsky.social · 8d

Its like the great countdown. This year is 2.0? Looks like 2030 will be 0.0.

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

Jeremy Fisher @jeremyfisher.bsky.social · 27d

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.
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Jeremy Fisher on X: "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. https://t.co/AP3GWLyX17" / X

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. https://t.co/AP3GWLyX17

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Jeremy Fisher @jeremyfisher.bsky.social · Aug 29

Hey Nevada PUC web techs... y'all ok?

Jeremy Fisher @jeremyfisher.bsky.social · Aug 18

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.

Jeremy Fisher @jeremyfisher.bsky.social · Jul 31

🔌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!
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Data Centers: Power Plays - But Who Pays?

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Jeremy Fisher @jeremyfisher.bsky.social · Jul 31

🔌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...

Data Centers: Power Plays - But Who Pays?

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Jeremy Fisher @jeremyfisher.bsky.social · Aug 14

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!
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Data Centers: Power Plays - But Who Pays?

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Jeremy Fisher @jeremyfisher.bsky.social · Aug 11

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...

Fools Gold: When 700 Gigawatts of Data Centers Come Knocking

Sir Martin Frobisher is the explorer that most of us outside of Canada never get to learn about. In 1577, after sailing past Greenland and getting stuck in the icebound northern reaches of what would ...

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Jeremy Fisher @jeremyfisher.bsky.social · Aug 6

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?

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jul 30

Motherfucking wind farms…

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Jeremy Fisher @jeremyfisher.bsky.social · Jul 31

🔌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...

Data Centers: Power Plays - But Who Pays?

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Jeremy Fisher @jeremyfisher.bsky.social · Jul 2

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.
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Data Centers: Power Plays - But Who Pays?

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Sierra Club @sierraclub.org · Jul 1

We're calling on Big Tech to clean up their act.

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Jeremy Fisher @jeremyfisher.bsky.social · Jun 30

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...

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

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Jeremy Fisher @jeremyfisher.bsky.social · Jun 10

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.

a baby is sitting on the floor playing with a toy and holding a cell phone .

ALT: a baby is sitting on the floor playing with a toy and holding a cell phone .

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Jeremy Fisher @jeremyfisher.bsky.social · Jun 10

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...

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Jeremy Fisher @jeremyfisher.bsky.social · Jun 10

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...

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Jeremy Fisher @jeremyfisher.bsky.social · Jun 10

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...
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In PJM, Renewable Energy Projects Are Getting Stuck

A two-year pause in formally accepting new requests will come with improvements in PJM’s interconnection process. They won't solve all the problems, but they are a good start, and they can’t come soon...

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Jeremy Fisher @jeremyfisher.bsky.social · Jun 10

Coal prices followed suit, taking advantage of utilities that didn't have a lot of buffer. Together, both impacts cranked up energy costs across the US. But there was more to come.
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Jeremy Fisher @jeremyfisher.bsky.social · Jun 10

Between 2021 & 2022, gas prices shot through the roof thanks to a perfect storm of post-covid rebound (demand increasing while supply lagged), massive exports, and a fully globalized commodity exposed to wartime uncertainty. And those higher costs were passed right through to ratepayers.

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Jeremy Fisher @jeremyfisher.bsky.social · Jun 10

Yeah, it's true - the rates are just too damn high. Fuel cost spikes, wildfire costs, and slow interconnection are driving up electricity costs faster than inflation.
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Jeremy Fisher @jeremyfisher.bsky.social · Jun 9

Here's the crazy part. While coal prices went up almost everywhere, coal prices in the eastern US - both Appalachia and Illinois basin - nearly doubled from 2021 to 2024, and Utah and Arizona coal plants both took huge step increases.

Jeremy Fisher @jeremyfisher.bsky.social · Jun 9

Great article from EI! Here's a companion dashboard showing that coal costs have gone up pretty much everywhere - and are staying up.
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Jeremy Fisher @jeremyfisher.bsky.social · May 29

So what does a post at DOE LPO get Greg Beard? In theory oversight on a bunch of programs meant to accelerate innovative clean energy, and help manufactures shift over to more efficient generation.

Or maybe just run LPO into the ground, like he did Stronghold. (5/5)
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Jeremy Fisher @jeremyfisher.bsky.social · May 29

And as pointed out in that lawsuit from Earthjustice, Scrubgrass's coal ash pile rocketed out of control once they started mining bitcoin there. (4/5)

Scrubgrass coal ash pile, July 2022 (Google Earth)

Scrubgrass coal ash pile, March 2025 (Google Earth)

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Jeremy Fisher @jeremyfisher.bsky.social · May 29

There's probably not a clearer image of how dirty crypto proof of work (like bitcoin) gets than Stronghold.
When we talk about these plants being dirty, it's quite literal. Scrubgrass has one of the highest SO2 emissions rates in the country, and its coal ash piles are ridiculous. (3/5)

Stronghold's Panther Coal Plant. Image via Google Earth

Stronghold's Scrubgrass Power Plant. Image via Google Earth

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