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GE Vernova’s gas turbine backlog hit 100 gigawatts in the first quarter of 2026. Standard large power transformers now average 128 weeks from order to delivery. Substation transformer lead times have s...

The network upgrade bill is usually what decides whether a generation project gets built. It is also, uncomfortably, not really a property of the project.

Same turbines, same point of interconnection, same base model. Put that project in a different cluster and the number changes. It depends on which other projects are studied alongside it, where they connect, what the...

Every multi-tenant application makes a promise: Tenant A will never see Tenant B’s data. And in every multi-tenant application, something is responsible for keeping that promise. My question is one I think every team should be able to answer quickly and out loud: what is that something? Point at it. Name the specific mechanism that stops the leak.

Originally published on Feb 2, 2023

The power grid is the largest, most complex, and most important machine ever constructed. It is the network that enables everything we have in modern society, and yet we are scarcely aware of it until it stops working. It is quite literally the platform that our lives are built on. The United States power grid alone is of a ...

If you boil down all of the reasons that I love what I do it all comes down to one thing. I like solving puzzles. This is the one profession that I have found that not only allows me to do that, but actually handcrafts bespoke puzzles for my enjoyment almost daily.

This puzzle started with a warning that a server’s file system was running out of disk space. This is usu...