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    Sep 25
    Introducing Cosign. cosign.co
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    Erik Torenberg
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    Sep 25
    Excited to introduce @cosign: the curated professional network for the startup community: cosign.co Our goal is to create the following: - A comprehensive startup directory of investors, companies, and operators, including what they worked on and who they worked
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    a16z's Alex Immerman, David George, and Sarah Wang on why a data center can lower your electricity bill: "It may seem counterintuitive, but a data center can help lower your electricity rate. A recent US study showed that for every 10% increase in data center capacity,
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    Why Texas Is Making Data Centers Wait
    At the end of 2024, Texas’ grid operator had 63 GW of large new customers in its queue. By this June, that figure reached 474 GW, more than five times record peak demand, about 90% of it data centers....
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    The US grid plans to add 86 gigawatts this year. Here's where it's coming from: - Solar: 43.4 GW - Batteries: 24.3 GW - Wind: 11.8 GW - Gas: 6.3 GW - New nuclear: 0 GW The AI labs are planning for hundreds of gigawatts. Solar is the one source already produced at that scale,
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    Why Texas Is Making Data Centers Wait
    At the end of 2024, Texas’ grid operator had 63 GW of large new customers in its queue. By this June, that figure reached 474 GW, more than five times record peak demand, about 90% of it data centers....
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    .@basepowerco has raised $2.5B to bring affordable, reliable energy to people's homes across America. They're building a new nationwide power company by rebuilding every layer from scratch. Three years in: - Built a home battery factory in 8 months - Installing 100 batteries a
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    Base Power & the Future of Electricity
    By @espricewright & @mikemcg0 In 2018, Zach Dell was a summer analyst at Blackstone studying the utility-scale battery opportunity. “One thing became really clear to me,” he recalls. “The marginal...
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    We're excited to invest in Preference Model. Building RL environments that actually work is harder than it looks. Models are relentless at reward hacking, finding shortcuts, and exploiting vulnerabilities. @preferencemodel has focused on the domain that matters most to labs
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    Today we are open-sourcing 🥕Karotte, our framework for building RL environments. We've used it for the past year to build MLE RL environments for frontier labs, and it's been hardened through 1M+ evaluation runs and red-teaming.
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