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Published: April 26, 2026 05:49

RT by @douglewinenergy: At least 70 percent of the energy produced by burning gasoline is wasted by cars in the form of heat. Across the entire fossil fuel system, about two thirds of the energy produced is simply wasted.

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Published: April 25, 2026 12:23

At least 70 percent of the energy produced by burning gasoline is wasted by cars in the form of heat. Across the entire fossil fuel system, about two thirds of the energy produced is simply wasted. Jesse Peltan (@JessePeltan) Electric vehicles are an…

RT by @douglewinenergy: Amin Vahdat live at Transition-AI 2026 with @CatalystPod. Google's Chief Technologist for AI Infrastructure - the man in charge of Google's $175–185B 2026 CapEx and the one who's said compute capacity needs to 2x every 6 months! Key takeaways: Training → Inference cascade: -Frontier GW training clusters have a ~1–2 year useful life; then capacity cycles to serving -Inference doesn't need GW scale — <100 MW can do useful work on large models -"Entering the age of inference" is now real as agents explode DC footprint -Speed-of-light latency starts to matter as models get faster — geography becomes UX + reliability -"a medium number of medium-sized data centers, augmented with a small number of large ones" (few large training clusters, inference can be mix of 10s to 100s of MW) Reliability reframe -4-nines isn't intrinsic: "we should be thinking about lower reliability power delivery overall" -Do you make the this trade: 4-nines at half capacity, or 2-nines (3.65 days downtime/yr) at 2x capacity? Customers "very often" pick 2x Behind the meter -Google actually prefers grid-connected capacity = BTM is a bridge, not a destination -BTM is about a different latency: time-to-delivery of capacity -Bridge sources: turbines, gas, mobile generation. Permanent: solar, wind, nuclear -Stranded BTM? "I'd love to have that problem." Energy is the limiter Co-design = capability -Google co-designs across Gemini ↔ software ↔ TPU ↔ rack ↔ DC ↔ power ↔ building -A few percent at each interface compounds into real advantage Bottlenecks -Won't force-rank chips/power/labor/EPC: "10am it's labor, noon it's power, 2pm it's chips — every day" -YoY efficiency is real: this year's capacity would've cost ~1.2x last year Building fungibility is dead, purpose-build is back -25-yr buildings vs. 5–6 chip generations. Disk rack vs. GPU rack = ~100x watts/sq ft and widening -Old world: build for fungibility (compute wasn't dominant cost). New world: "this is a GPU building, that's a TPU building" -Density wasn't maxed before because flexibility was worth more. That's flipped One of the most important pods of the year from an AI leader at one of the most important companies at the center of it all! Great job @shaylekann

https://nitter.poast.org/ShanuMathew93/status/2047409997739377034#m

Published: April 23, 2026 20:19

Amin Vahdat live at Transition-AI 2026 with @CatalystPod. Google's Chief Technologist for AI Infrastructure - the man in charge of Google's $175–185B 2026 CapEx and the one who's said compute capacity needs to 2x every 6 months! Key takeaways: Training…

RT by @douglewinenergy: In more than a decade we have not broken ground on a new commercial nuclear project and now we have two under way. https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/americas-first-commercial-nuclear-power-projects-in-a-decade-just-broke-ground-25ae8c9c?st=VpuptH&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

https://nitter.poast.org/Dr_A_Stein/status/2047381080869601332#m

Published: April 23, 2026 18:24

In more than a decade we have not broken ground on a new commercial nuclear project and now we have two under way. wsj.com/business/energy-oil/…

Texas 53% carbon free for the first 3 months of 2026! #txenergy

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Published: April 23, 2026 02:08

Texas 53% carbon free for the first 3 months of 2026! #txenergy Joshua D. Rhodes (@joshdr83) It is just through Q1 2026 and very likely to change, but still wind and solar at almost 45% for electricity in ERCOT so far! ⚡️🌬️☀️🔋 —…

RT by @douglewinenergy: Today at Cloud Next '26, we are showcasing a significant expansion of our Google Earth AI geospatial models and datasets into planetary intelligence tools. More in 🧵

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Published: April 22, 2026 23:46

Today at Cloud Next '26, we are showcasing a significant expansion of our Google Earth AI geospatial models and datasets into planetary intelligence tools. More in 🧵

RT by @douglewinenergy: TPU 8t, optimized for training and TPU 8i, optimized for inference. Looking good!

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Published: April 22, 2026 15:57

TPU 8t, optimized for training and TPU 8i, optimized for inference. Looking good!

RT by @douglewinenergy: You wouldn't know it if you live in the USA or consume US media and politics, but the fight between EVs and ICEs is basically over. Internal combustion is on it's way out. First it'll look slow, then fast. Fleet turnover will lag sales. But ALL the growth globally is in EVs. If your company isn't competitive in building EVs and can only build internal combustion, you're going to be stuck serving an ever-smaller share of a shrinking global market over the next decade...

https://nitter.poast.org/JesseJenkins/status/2046953680662823058#m

Published: April 22, 2026 14:06

You wouldn't know it if you live in the USA or consume US media and politics, but the fight between EVs and ICEs is basically over. Internal combustion is on it's way out. First it'll look slow, then fast. Fleet turnover will lag sales. But ALL the growth…

RT by @douglewinenergy: For the first time in history clean energy (solar wind, nuclear) met the entire growth (~850TWh) in global electricity (2025). Fossil generation was flat last year.

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Published: April 22, 2026 00:36

For the first time in history clean energy (solar wind, nuclear) met the entire growth (~850TWh) in global electricity (2025). Fossil generation was flat last year. Ember (@ember_energy) #1 A RECORD surge in solar halted the rise of global fossil…

RT by @douglewinenergy: New IEA data: EV sales in emerging markets surge 80% in 2025 >India: EVs up 75% to record 2.3m EV units sold >Indonesia: 125% increase >Viet Nam: EVs hit staggering 40% share of new car sales >Thailand: EV share of new sales hit 21% >Latin America: Region saw 70% annual growth >Mexico: Sales tripled >Brazil: Sales up 40% >Ecuador and Uruguay: Experienced massive jumps of 240% and 140% The "EVs are only for rich countries and China" bullshit is officially over

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Published: April 21, 2026 06:09

New IEA data: EV sales in emerging markets surge 80% in 2025 >India: EVs up 75% to record 2.3m EV units sold >Indonesia: 125% increase >Viet Nam: EVs hit staggering 40% share of new car sales >Thailand: EV share of new sales hit 21% >Latin America: Region…