The Colorado Legislature is considering 2 competing data center regulation bills. House Bill 1030 is a bill backed by data centers that would incentivize compliancee with state regulations in exchange for tax breaks. In contrast, Senate Bill 102 is backed by local community groups and contains no incentives, instead imposing regulations including complying with local water rules, […]
Monthly Archives: March 2026
Data center personal consumption expenditures inflation
Yesterday the Dallas Federal Reserve announced that “Even a modest data center boom could substantially raise retail electricity prices and hence annual inflation. For example, under plausible assumptions about the data center build-out and utilization, annual PCE inflation in 2030 would increase by between 0.04 and 0.13 percentage points. Slower-than-expected growth of renewable energy sources—wind […]
Bitcoin contagion
Bitcoin value has a lot in common with my pug puppy who has really big feelings that change every minute. A recent paper from the Dallas Federal Reserve tracks bitcoin sentiments. Specifically, the Dallas Fed used a social-sentiment contagion methodology to track “influences both individual trading decisions and overall market dynamics.” This novel measure of “contagion intensity […]