The Rundown Tech: Microsoft locks in 20 years of gas power. Comment: Wake up Ireland!

Microsoft locks in 20 years of gas power
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The Rundown: Chevron and Microsoft just signed a 20-year deal to build a 2.67-gigawatt gas-powered data center in the Permian Basin in West Texas, which the Wall Street Journal says could become one of the largest data centers in the U.S.
The details:
Chevron’s subsidiary Energy Forge One signed a 20-year PPA with Microsoft for Project Kilby, a co-located gas power and data center complex in Texas.The 2K-acre Reeves County site will reportedly run on GE Vernova and Caterpillar turbines fed by Chevron’s Permian Basin gas.Chevron is partnering with Joulent on development, targeting FID by the end of 2026, first power in 2028, and $10B+ in tax revenue.The co-located design delivers power directly to Microsoft, limiting grid impact while giving Chevron cash flows decoupled from oil and gas price swings.
Why it matters: AI workloads are pushing tech giants to lock in decade-long energy supply deals, creating a new market for fossil fuel companies to plug directly into the data center buildout. Project Kilby marks Big Oil’s clearest bet yet that AI’s power hunger — not the energy transition — is the next growth frontier.
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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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