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Energy Efficiency

A collection of 17 issues

Goldman Sachs' Intriguingly Ambiguous Assessment of the GenAI Market

“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book— what everyone else does not say in a book.” – Friedrich Nietzsche Nietzsche said some batshit-crazy stuff, particularly after he was stricken by syphilis – or was it brain cancer? Regardless of what afflicted Nietzsche, the

Google’s genAI Networking Capabilities: Useful, Valuable, but not New

An Unconventional Approach to Investing Amid Mega-Cap Market Dominance

Presenting a Tapas Menu of Recent Tech News

Each week, we’re swamped by events and information. It’s hard to keep up. We do our best to remain apprised of what matters to us, but relevant developments can evade the notice of even the most diligent observer. What follows are news items that caught my attention but

AI’s Runaway Capex Raises Questions, Signifies Big Changes Ahead

Alphabet (Google), Microsoft, and Meta were among the companies posting quarterly financial results this week. (Amazon will report next week.) The market responded enthusiastically to results from Google and Microsoft, but Meta’s results aroused ambivalence followed by deep concern. Beyond the respective revenues and earnings of the technology behemoths

The Datacenter Energy Crunch: More Opportunity Than Threat

Lately, I’ve spent some of my now-copious free time pondering the future of datacenters, suddenly pressured by AI to quicken their evolutionary pace. As you may have heard, AI is notorious for its voracious appetite for energy and its unquenchable thirst for water. Today’s post is relatively brief,

Energy: Tech Constraint or Accelerant?

The technology industry is insular and self-absorbed. Its denizens and principal players often see themselves as singularly important, the ever-shining sun around which all other businesses and industries revolve. One could argue that there’s some justification for the tech industry’s bumptiousness. The Magnificent Seven have dominated stock-market gains