Kevin Sunday

"He believes that those who make their bed in Hell are not lost, or those who dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, or the lame man at Bethesda Pool, or Lazarus in the grave, or those who pray, Eli Eli lama sabachthani. Have mercy." Jayber Crow

"His belief is a kind of knowledge beyond any way of knowing. He believes that the child in the womb is not lost, nor is the man whose work has come to nothing, nor is the old woman forsaken in a nursing home in California.

"Listen. There is a light that includes our darkness, a day that shines down even on the clouds. A man of faith believe that the Man in the Well is not lost. He does not believe this easily or without pain, but he believes it.

“We have very efficiently pared the claws of the Lion of Judah, certified him ‘meek and mild,’ and recommended him as a fitting household pet for pale curates and pious old ladies.” —Dorothy L. Sayers plough.com/en/topics/cult…

Nicolai Ge's "Christ and the Robber" (L) and "Conscience: Judas" (R)

Pennsylvania became an energy leader because competition works. Great piece by @PAManufacturers' David Taylor in @RealClearPA: competitive markets save PJM consumers ~$5B/year and send clear signals to build new generation as demand from AI, manufacturing, and electrification grows. "I’m alarmed by the growing chorus of voices in Harrisburg and beyond who seem eager to walk away from the competitive power market that has served this Commonwealth extraordinarily well." ⚡️Read more: tinyurl.com/6ek887sd #EnergyPolicy #PJM

Just now finding out about @weatherchannel’s retro option, music and everything, and I am weeping openly. Feels so good to be back baby weather.com/retro/

Now that Artemis II has launched we have 10 days to get everyone on Earth a Planet of the Apes costume so we can do something hilarious when the astronauts return 😁

@BryceJohanneck @SPPorg The graphic says 13,000 miles of transmission

13 Transmission miles! Biggest power market expansion in US history and we gained 13 Transmission miles? Of 7M T&D line miles in North America? @SPPorg please clarify

In light of reporting that Constellation says it will have to wait until 2031 on a grid buildout to bring back Three Mile Island, worth re-upping my work with Chairman Blank on how there are better ways to determine the priority of such interconnection!

The image itself is electric. And then you realize that Bill Murray is hiding within this picture randomly - like Waldo - and it gets even better.

totally unforced error to tell everyone that AI will ruin their lives

This from @matthewschmitz, on the unreligious religiosity of Christian identity politics, is absolutely outstanding. I’ve long been convinced that Christian nationalism and other adjacent movements are a symptom of religious decline, not revival. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…

Here’s another view. Unapologetically. Cannot get enough.

The purpose of MAID is not to let people die with dignity. The purpose of MAID is to save the government money. They will keep pushing death on everyone they can push it on, in order to save the government money.

If you want to understand how utilities are going to handle AI, you need to start with rate design. That’s where a lot of the real decisions are getting made. We just dug deep into 25 new data center tariffs across 19 states. A few years ago, this category didn’t really exist. With a ton of speculative development, there’s a lot of uncertainty around how data center demand shows up and whether it sticks around. Utilities don’t want to build out a bunch of infrastructure and then get stranded. So we're seeing similar design choices that require longer-term commitments, fairly high minimum demand charges, and significant financial guarantees. Interestingly, flexibility is not showing up yet. Grid stress is often concentrated in a relatively small number of hours each year. And outside of those windows, there’s often quite a bit of capacity available. So in theory, large loads like data centers could be incentivized to reduce demand to create more headroom on the system. There's lots of debate over how data centers could deploy this flexibility (batteries, on-site gas, turning down compute), but it's 100% possible. But when you look at these tariffs, that idea just isn’t really built in. Utilities are doing a lot to lock in reliable demand and protect against downside. But so far there isn't much thought about how to actually coordinate that load with the needs of the grid. We pulled all of this together in a free report at Latitude Media.

Every time you load a page, your data travels through physical infrastructure - cables under oceans, satellites overhead, fiber under cities. Most people never think about. That's why I decided to map it. This is Project Backbone. It's free, interactive, and live.

We asked voters to rank 17 proposals to lower energy costs. "Banning new data centers" came in at 15th.

First it was aero engines repurposed for data centers. WSJ now reporting that domestic battery capacity for EVs, including of Ford/GM, is also being repurposed for data centers with slowing EV sales. - LG producing battery cells for Tesla instead of EV batteries for GM - Ford investing $2B to repurpose EV manufacturing in Kentucky; Ford CEO - energy storage has a “short payback period” and that it can be used to “de-risk the core automotive business” - Samsung $1B deal with undisclosed company to use its Stellantis JV factory in Indiana - AESC retooling a factory in TN that made batteries for the Nissan Leaf - Repurposing requires change in chemistry from NMC for EVs to LFP for grid applications; change of shape more tricky - Volta Foundation annual report last month also called out 190 GWh of mfg capacity reallocated to LFP - Qualifying for tax credits not so straightforward given supply chain for materials is all from China As @TheStalwart said: "That which *can* be repurposed to serve the AI supply chain *will* be repurposed to serve the AI supply chain."