Accelerating Better Decision Making

In December 2024, the State Corporation Commission of Virginia held a conference on how the state might manage years (or decades) of data center expansion. Virginia already hosts more than 300 data centers, which together consume about as much electricity as Massachusetts, or Iowa, or Colorado.

End-of-year wraps often recap what happened over the last 365 days and make predictions about what will happen over the next 365. In our world at the intersection of energy and AI, we’ve seen enough to know that even the most well-informed predictions can fall short — and, much like a bad email, the world doesn’t need another “what we learned” post. Instead, for our concluding edition of Machine Readable, we’re going to anchor on the state of play in energy right now.