Michael Thomas ✓

@curious_founder · Colorado · joined 12 Mar 2012

Founder of @CleanviewEnergy and Distilled. I make and post a lot of charts to try to better understand the world around me. Subscribe to my newsletter below:

48 067Followers

780Following

8 444Posts total

89.8KViews on collected posts

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Michael Thomas ✓@curious_founder9 Sep

Oracle just announced that it's seeking 2 GW of renewable energy to support its Stargate Project Jupiter data center. Here's some important context on this announcement: Oracle and OpenAI were initially planning to build 2.2 GW of natural gas generating capacity—likely using h

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Michael Thomas ✓@curious_founder8 Sep

@curious_founder The sequencing is the story. They locked seven turbines, pipeline and EPC before having a tenant, which used to be unthinkable. When turbine slots are the scarce item you buy first and find the offtaker later. A retired coal interconnection is what makes that bet 366 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Michael Thomas ✓@curious_founder8 Sep

@curious_founder That’s a big project ⚡️ 506 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Michael Thomas ✓@curious_founder8 Sep

Another big Amazon data center update: AWS has filed plans for a 39 building campus in Pennsylvania that will be powered by the 4.5 GW Homer City natural gas power plant. A group of developers proposed the Homer City natural gas power plant more than a year ago. In a series of

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Michael Thomas ✓@curious_founder27 Aug

@curious_founder With respect, readers should understand that @amazon won't be using the electrons generated by these solar and storage facilities. It's simply the companies' effort to try to get some credit for being green... even as it builds the nation's largest gas-fired powe 67 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Michael Thomas ✓@curious_founder27 Aug

@curious_founder I wonder why they went with solar compared to other energy sources. 146 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Michael Thomas ✓@curious_founder27 Aug

@curious_founder Gas turbines for now which are easily replaced by batteries and solar at a later date. No concrete required for solar and batteries. They stand on piles driven or screwed into the ground. Access roads can be gravel laid on a geotextile membrane. Gigawatts of capa 179 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Michael Thomas ✓@curious_founder26 Aug

Amazon recently began construction on one of the largest solar and storage projects in America—a 1.2 GW / 7.2 GWh project in Eastern Oregon. So why is the company turning to renewables instead of gas in the Pacific Northwest? Over the last few weeks, Cleanview’s team reviewed

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Michael Thomas ✓@curious_founder23 Aug

It’s hard to find any major type of infrastructure that has face bipartisan backlash like data centers currently face. Fracking faced opposition, mainly from Democrats and environmentalists. But shale oil and gas production has risen dramatically in the last 10+ years. Solar 5.5K views · 72 likes · 5 reposts · 23 replies Open on X →

Michael Thomas ✓@curious_founder21 Aug

The AI vibes are just terrible. Just 11% of Americans now feel more excited than concerned about AI, according to a new Pew poll. https://t.co/c8jL2iVkuY

3.2K views · 47 likes · 6 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

10 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.

Median views1 874this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %3.90%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.12%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 874	924	2.03×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.90%	3.62%	1.08×
Engagement rate	1.12%	1.52%	0.74×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

3.2K21 Aug

5.5K23 Aug

29.4K26 Aug

17927 Aug

146

29.1K8 Sep

506

366

21.3K9 Sep

Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.79%21 Aug

1.83%23 Aug

1.04%26 Aug

2.23%27 Aug

0.68%

4.48%

0.81%8 Sep

0.59%

0.55%

1.21%9 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes60.0%762 in total

Reposts9.9%126 in total

Replies6.5%82 in total

Bookmarks23.7%301 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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