AI Impact · TheCatch.AI

ENERGY

The physical bill of the build-out, and who pays it

A model writing a poem about rain draws real power to do it, and the water and the megawatts it draws belong to somebody. Energy covers the physical cost of the AI build-out from the utility filings and the permit dockets.

First up: Who subsidizes the megawatts — tracked through the public rate cases.

The Power Bill

The Record-Price Line Item

The largest electricity-cost increase in the mid-Atlantic grid’s history didn’t come from a cold snap. It came from an auction — and a market rule that lets 65 million people pay for demand they didn’t create.

Human Market design · PJM / FERC
The Grid-Drain Trade-off

A Fleet of Gas Plants for One Customer

Louisiana is about to build a fleet of gas plants for a single data center. If Meta walks away in fifteen years, the people left holding the bill won’t be in Menlo Park.

Human Regulatory decision · LPSC / Meta
The Power Bill

The Pledge and the Ledger

Microsoft promised to be carbon-negative by 2030. In one year, its emissions rose significantly — and the company quietly stopped buying some of the clean-energy credits that made the pledge look reachable.

Human Sustainability report · Microsoft / Google
Honest Positive

The Algorithm That Paid Its Own Power Bill

Not every AI energy story is a warning. One of them is a control system that cut the cooling bill of the world’s largest data-center fleet.

Human (positive) Measured result · Google / DeepMind
AI Impact · Human & Machine
Human & Machine

We test logic, bias, and machine dissonance. The flagship strand — last, deliberate.