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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

There will be a movement on social media towards serif fonts as more and more people named Al get annoyed with their name looking like the acronym AI

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

On Monday I’ll be starting at Google DeepMind as a Visiting Researcher for my sabbatical (Jan-Dec 2025). Looking forward to contributing to solving challenging problems in the AI+Optimization for power systems space!

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

That almost answers it. If most of the vars are accounted for locally, then it’s justified to have them rated in Watts

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I think so, but it’s still not 1.0 pf, right?

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Definitely, but how much? Just a ton of cap banks to cancel out hundreds of VAR from the motors?

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

As a ballpark, if you have a 1 GW data center (with the rating actually in Watts), where 40% of that is the cooling system, and 80% of the cooling system's energy consumption is AC motor loads, assuming an 80% power factor, that's 100's of MVar unaccounted for, making the effective rating ~1.3 GVA

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

2) Is it just that there's a lot of reactive power compensation so these motors do not pull VAR from the grid and their effective grid impact can just be expressed in watts? 3) If they are pulling VAr, what's the impact on harmonics with this level of reactive power loads? @xiaowang1984.bsky.social

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

1) Are the load growth numbers we see for data centers *actually* in MW or is this really MVA? If it's actually MW, the consumption is much higher than we thought (/wire sizing/transformer sizing / etc is much higher)

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Data center power ratings in MW vs MVA is a good point made by @agelston.bsky.social . If ~40% of a data center's energy consumption goes to the cooling system, and a large chunk of the cooling system's consumption is from AC motors, this is a large amount of reactive power. Which raises questions:

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Once I did just start explaining OPF because I heard it’s good to keep talking to them and I ran out of things to say 😂

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

One of her swings has some classical music which is probably good because otherwise she’s just listening to pop and metal from me

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Well also the compressor motors. Cooling systems have a lot of motors

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

How do you cool the hot things???

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

This is the only educational baby song I know so if anyone has other recommendations let me hear them

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Brian Bartholomew @bpbartholomew.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Boom! PJM now forecasts more than 30GW of summer peak load growth by the end of the decade. Summer peak demand: + 6.7GW by 2026 + 17.7GW by 2028 + 31.7GW by 2030

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Do AC motors require reactive power? Do data centers have any motors? 😊 Yes

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Need to get some for our cats too…

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Kyri Georgia and Bridget’s first Christmas together ❤️ Decided to arrange the stockings in order of age with the exception of Bridget and Georgia which we switched

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Andrew Gelston @agelston.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

My middle name is danger. First name amperage last name voltage, sr. name fire

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Claire Wayner @cwayner.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

#EnergySky Duke Energy is demolishing a coal plant and putting batteries in its place - a great example of faster interconnection of new energy resources by utilizing existing grid assets! 💡🔌 (yes, they are also building a new gas plant nearby, but baby steps...) www.canarymedia.com/articles/bat...

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Duke Energy to knock down coal plant and build its biggest battery yet

Large grid batteries are finally coming to North Carolina, the nation’s fourth largest solar power producer.

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

One of the best purchases I’ve ever made though

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I love all the guesses but the correct answer is that this is an image of cat litter on a basement floor illuminated by the Dyson V15 Detect, the best vacuum I’ve ever owned

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Brownie points for whoever correctly identifies what this image is

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Ugh, this is true, and I still haven’t gotten over my love for free food as a tenured professor 😂

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Aricie | 아리시 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @parisien.cc · 23/11/2024

Hydro-Quebec sometimes uses helicopter to smash power lines with wooden poles to remove ice and/or snow

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Ice on power lines can be melted by temporarily overloading the line. High currents = high heat!

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

If one Amazon AI datacenter consumes around 1 GW, and 1 horsepower is 746 Watts, this means that the datacenter is rated at over a million horsepower That’s a lot of horses And an interesting mental visual

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 19/11/2024

Folks: this is the energy starter pack you were looking for! You don't need any others. Only this one. Thank you @jameshewett.bsky.social for this public service go.bsky.app/6J1B7RK

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

When does seeing your baby smile and laugh stop feeling like drugs? Makes me cry 😭❤️

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

But then I would have been confused by this question!

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I mean, that one makes sense :)

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

To be obnoxious I’m now only describing the power ratings of common household appliances in terms of horsepower rather than Watts (1 HP = 746 Watts) My frozen burrito requires 2 minutes when used with a 1.48 HP microwave

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

How much did buying each light cost?

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Is it more common for an IOU to own street lighting, or for a municipality to?

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Going to invent heat pump hair dryers for those of us who want to multi-task working on our arm strength while styling our hair

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

recall part of the daylight savings time origin story

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

What do you do if your baby is only calmed by the gentle hum of transmission lines

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

The net sum of energy savings from energy efficiency upgrades across the years will certainly be offset from increased computing IMHO. But efficiency upgrades have key benefits at the distribution level - it’s not just about the net sum of demand, it’s about the location (and timing).

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Yay year of the dragon babies! Let me know if yours has any good insights 😍

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Going to make a more active effort to be on energy sky (wait, what did we decide to call it again?) Have just been a bit preoccupied with this little bean (she loves hikes and hates baths. Unclear her opinion about various energy technologies yet)

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Catalyst Cooperative @catalyst.coop · 29/01/2024

If you're a student doing research in energy systems, we're working on a grant that would let us support you in developing open data wrangling & software development skills. This short (<10min) survey will help us better understand your needs (ends Fri, Feb 2nd) 🔌💡 forms.gle/3pa9i3Fk5W8W...

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Technical training to improve open-source energy data access

Since 2016, the Public Utility Data Liberation (PUDL) project has been taking energy data that’s already publicly available, and making it publicly usable, by cleaning, standardizing, and cross-link...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/01/2024

One day I hope to meet some Bluesky mutuals, but for now, I’m still meeting people I know from Twitter like @kyrib.bsky.social.

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