Elastic Energy

free elastic shirts for anyone that wants to meet near sfo tomorrow morning

@Skoog fwiw elastic is like hackney for power bills elasticenergy.com/start

@BenjaminHilborn @Skoog so true

this is genuinely insane

@ZachBDell siiick

2 down, 48 to go Here we come IL

@sundarpichai huge commitment, will be interesting to see how this holds up esp. as demand for your compute goes up

Google is now the first cloud provider to integrate 1 GW of flexible demand into long-term utility contracts. Our ability to shift or reduce our energy demand when it’s needed can help utility companies balance supply/ demand and plan for future capacity needs. This is a big milestone for responsible data center growth and helps keep costs lower for local communities. blog.google/innovation-and…

@walls_jason1 hell yeah brother

Someone just posted "10 jobs safe from AI" and Electrician was #10. I'm an Electrician. And I used AI to build an entire company. The trades aren't safe FROM AI. We're the ones who are going to use it better than anyone. Because we actually know the problems. Silicon Valley builds tools for Silicon Valley. I built a tool for the guy in a truck who just wants to know if his customer actually needs a $4,000 panel upgrade. Most don't. The math proves it. NEC 220.82. I just made the math accessible for $12.99 instead of $4,000. That's what happens when a tradesman gets his hands on @AnthropicAI.

everyone say hi to the new guy he passed his trial (including destructive testing) so obviously we’re giving him control of the X account

@clawrence @ERCOT_ISO we love to see it

@ERCOT_ISO appears to be curtailing both solar and wind, wholesale prices are negative and batteries are getting paid to charge. It's cool, sunny and windy. What a trip.

@CarolineBGolin @DukeEnergy @Google so what ever happened with this?

Today, we are excited to announce our collaboration with @DukeEnergy and our peers to create a Clean Transition Tariff (CTT) - a new model that allows @Google and other large energy users to accelerate the deployment of clean capacity solutions. news.duke-energy.com/releases/respo…

@noah_gordon_ @TheNatlInterest so many missing pieces smh

US power grids are missing key pieces: transformers. Permitting reform and tax credits aren't enough without key electrical components. My piece for @TheNatlInterest w/ Sia Were

@mattparlmer excellent

The energy crisis that is gaining steam rn will force a ton of industry to go electric on accelerated timetables, power electronics will be a very good business over the next five years or so

@JessePeltan soon

Guys. Battery storage is <$60/kWh in China and dropping. Not cells. Full storage systems.

@KiteVC the rise of the neoutility is real

it's about time... just hope it's not too late to start the process of catching up. We need something like the Telecom Deregulation Act of 1996 to incentivize the private sector to take on the challenge of remaking our grid; that will speed things up considerably!

@TheChiefNerd metering intelligence = grid-scale rent extraction with extra steps. we’ve see this movie. meter-readers & toll-booth operators don’t win the sequel.

🚨 SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”

@JessePeltan we did this once Edison vs Westinghouse got us decades of artificial scarcity & delayed abundance

Somebody should start a nonprofit that does this, otherwise we might see a future where intelligence is a utility and people have to buy it on a meter.

What about a future where intelligence is open source? Like an AI but open. An Open AI.

@joeljean9 can we be friends?

I just bought a gigawatt-scale solar factory. AMA.

@utilizegrid “get more from what we've already built” 🫡

Today, the Utilize Coalition officially launches. America's electric grid operates at just 53% of capacity on average. Nearly half of the generation, transmission, and distribution infrastructure Americans have already paid for sits idle for much of the year — while electricity bills keep rising and demand is about to surge like nothing the grid has seen in a generation. Soon-to-be-released independent research from @TheBrattleGroup, commissioned by Utilize and @GridLabEnergy, finds that improving grid utilization could save U.S. consumers more than $100 billion on electricity bills over the next decade. The opportunity is real. The technologies to capture it already exist. What's been missing is a coordinated effort to put grid utilization at the center of how we plan, invest, and build. That's what Utilize is here to do. We're proud to launch with seven founding members who are already putting this to work — @teslaenergy, @carrier, @Google, Renew Home, Sparkfund, SPAN, and Verrus — representing batteries, smart home systems, flexible data center load, intelligent HVAC, residential virtual power plants, and grid-interactive data centers. Different technologies. One shared principle: get more from what we've already built. Learn more and join us: utilizecoalition.org

@Electron_Cowboy @CrusoeAI LET’S GOOO

Today we announce the launch of @CrusoeAI’s newest factory - 350,000 sqft, 200 employees, 5 production lines and a $200m investment this year into the mass production of Crusoe Spark modular datacenters in CO. Here’s the space before we started demo (now under construction).

energy systems should optimize for resilience first, economics second

@utilizegrid huge! only thing missing is the 40-80 gw of flexible capacity that's already installed but inaccessible. the hardware exists, but it can't interoperate. we put a number on what that costs annually. it's not small.

It's official! We've launched Utilize -- a new campaign to save Americans billions of dollars in electricity costs and get more out of the grid we have. Axios exclusive here: axios.com/2026/03/10/goo…