"Data centre operators & their customers are underwriting new, RE projects [...] This adds an additional 1.5TWH of renewable energy to the grid and offsets 70% of data centre energy use" Mate, you're the guy that comes to party with 7 beers and drinks 10. Who care's if you bought an "additional" 7

.. call me crazy, but this does not exactly sound like an "increase efficiency" win www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

if i was going to give a college commencement speech i would make sure to start with something the students could rally behind. something like "we will mechanically suck the youth from your bones to feed a mechanical eschaton, which my generation will use to climb heaven and become new gods"

A world without gas infrastructure? If we aggressively electrify the economy, green methanol could cover most of the remaining non-electric demand - without needing large-scale hydrogen or methane networks. New paper in Joule: "A Minimal Methanol Backstop for High Electrification Scenarios"

A small but significant victory in a massive battle to defend human rights and international law. Francesca has been vindicated even in the courts of the superpower that sanctioned her for doing her duty www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

as a data journalist I am obliged to argue for a synthesis. a third way. We can create a world where both stories and spreadsheets support each other to thrive. A world where we don't judge a spreadsheet by its file extension but by the content of its cells

Victoria has launched a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Dashboard, allowing interactive exploration of Victorian data from the Australian National Greenhouse Accounts via a PowerBI report. A link to the Dashboard is at www.climatechange.vic.gov.au/greenhouse-g... #springst #climatechange

.. who could possible say? 🤷‍♂️

"Wind power growth drives winter risk and supply-dominated variability in Australia’s energy system" Really enjoyed working with @dresearchdson.bsky.social on this - was a pleasure, and always extremely insightful collaborating across disciplines 🔌💡 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

AEMO's new QED shows that 50% of demand growth in the National Electricity Market (NEM) was thanks specifically to data centres. That is the same proportion of power demand growth as the United States. So much for "stop saying Aus has any similarities to the US" www.aemo.com.au/energy-syste...

🎶 "... In the circle, the circle of life" 🎶 www.9news.com.au/world/hunter...

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

Australia's cyber security co-ordinator just dropped what I think will be a very useful reaction meme

Larissa Waters asks former Treasury chief Ken Henry if it’s too simplistic to say wartime gas profits from the war on Iran can either go to Australians, or to overseas investors & shareholders. Henry “That’s not simplistic, that’s how it is!” “It is as simple as that.” 💥 #auspol

huh.. turns out they design them to *not* catch fire

"The oil can be sent to the Geelong refinery to produce diesel, aviation fuel and/or petrol" ... but can it?

Not now, out-of-control-blaze ...

Hello, World! Hello, Bluesky! PyPSA is now officially on Bluesky - it took a couple of years and a major version release, but we're finally here!

Python for Power System Analysis (PyPSA) now has an official social media channel - follow for feature deep-dives, releases and other updates!

Australia's largest industrial climate pollution scheme is also its most poorly understood. Today the federal government is releasing a new round of data today: details of the second year of the reformed scheme ahead of a review this year. Here's what we know so far...

I just hit go on my first major piece of work from Naru Research: a guide to Australia's Safeguard Mechanism for change advocates and curious folks who love to learn. You can download it from here: www.naruresearch.com.au/sgm-guide

And here I was thinking this idea had died at least a decade ago ..

It's kind of funny to me that ~$20 billion is considered too expensive a cost for expanding Au's liquid energy storage capacity. Wait until they hear about Snowy 2.0 ... 2-3 *orders of magnitude* more expensive.

In 2025, the Clean Energy Finance Corporation found that data centre growth in Australia induces higher electricity prices ***whether the companies build new renewable energy generation or not*** www.cefc.com.au/media/hs5ner...

In case folks interested in seeing how the forward netback gas prices have moved over the last couple of weeks.. Mid $20's per GJ for next 12 months .. haven't been that high since early 2023, following the first energy shock. Domestic prices haven't seemed to move up..... yet

So I made a bit of a thing. I hope you like it. www.naruresearch.com.au

Who's gonna tell him?

"Worst case really is we won't have enough, or we won't have any...It is more difficult if we have no diesel at all than if we have a supply that is expensive" Philippines may not have any fuel supply beyond April; no official reserves & govt is in talks to buy at premium prices.

NV Energy will also not be able to meet its climate goals thanks to skyrocketing power demand from data centre developments. This whole region is under so much stress from this industry that it's hard to describe thenevadaindependent.com/article/data...

In case you're interested in what's happening to the futures prices for next FY in the NEM...

I have a joke about carbon offsets but someone else is going to have to tell it to you and a third person is going to have to verify if it is funny while a fourth person argues that the second person was already going to tell the joke anyway

Stockpiling valuable liquid un-Australian? The Rum Corps would like a word...

idk I’ve seen a bajillion kids movies where the kids parents die & let me tell you, having a convo with my kid about how anyone can die at any time & it doesn’t matter if they’re someone’s mom or dad is way harder than having a convo about how sometimes someone has two dads or whatever. And yet

They've gone and shrinkflationed a dozen ..

incredible, he did the joke

People switching from ChatGPT to Anthropic are telling on themselves. Will they now cancel their Claude subscriptions because it was used to help plan the attack on Iran? They won’t and we all know it.

When you gain the admiration of actual fascist supremacists, it may be time for for some self reflection. #auspol #ALP

Seems the Vic Premier's Literary Awards aren't bowing to pressure or self censorship in choosing the winners this year. I read Fierceland a couple of weeks ago and thought it was excellent. Also thought Discipline was very much worth a read. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

🚨 New paper: Coupling integrated assessment and energy system models 🚨 Planning future energy systems requires bridging two fundamentally different scales: long-term transformation pathways spanning decades, and short-term power system operations unfolding hour by hour. #EnergySky #PyPSA 🧵

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

The really insane thing about arts funding cuts like the ones currently devastating Victoria is how small the savings are. Jacinta Allen is presiding over generational damage to the arts scene, for a saving of around 1 day of transport infrastructure spending

OKAY BIG ONE FOR YA NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone.... Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!! ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b... + 📼+🧵>

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

I am not sure you could come up with a worse put down of the Liberal front bench than James Paterson saying "Angus is the smartest policy brain in the shadow cabinet” live.thepoint.com.au

Absolutely huge crowd in Melbourne right now. People from all backgrounds, ages and professions - united in opposition to genocide and war. This is what social cohesion looks like.

Only six months late but I really enjoyed this preso from @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social touching on one of my favourite niche energy topics: diesel! Pipeline gas has real challenges meeting seasonal peaking needs - big tanks of liquid fuel are a great complement www.ceem.unsw.edu.au/sites/defaul...

I am absolutely not kidding

He’s not wrong.