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Cold Eye Earth

Gregor Macdonald
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tracking the progress of energy transition

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Big Blue Wave?

Monday 21 September 2026

As one of the earliest locales to host data centers, the U.S. state of Oregon may give us a preview of how the next round of data-center discourse will proceed. Starting in 2006, companies like Google and Facebook...

4 days ago
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Crossings

Hanford Ferry, Columbia River, 1935

The offices of Cold Eye Earth are on the move this week, as we “up sticks” from from Portland and cross over the Columbia River to Vancouver, Washington. We will return with a fresh issue of the newslett...

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Hot Summer

Monday 24 August 2026

The U.S. continues to build an expanding dependency on natural gas, and that trend looks ready to extend further on the back of the data center buildout. Mostly due to the ongoing coal crash that began more than a dec...

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Mid-Year Chartbook II

Monday 10 August 2026

If the world finds it too challenging to overbuild wind and solar, perhaps we could overbuild storage instead. One way to more aggressively dislocate incumbent fossil fuel generation would be to overbuild clean genera...

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Mid-Year Chartbook I

Global consumption of fossil fuels has been climbing at a steady rate since the pandemic, at roughly 1.25% per year. That’s exactly the kind of rate that makes it difficult to rein in their growth. From roughly 490 exajoules (EJ) in 2021 to...

2 months ago
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