Monday, September 15, 2025

Electricity Demand To Increase Six-Fold Over The Next Twenty Years -- September 15, 2025

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Electricity demand. It sounds like a talking head on CNBC misspoke. The talking head definitely said that energy (electricity) demand would increase six-fold over the new six years. Fact check:

So, either I misheard -- mostly likely -- or the talking head misspoke -- let's re-wind the tape.

Over 20 years. Either way, that's still quite a jump in electricity demand. In the big scheme of things electricity demand has remained pretty stable and rising slowly and predictably until recently. 

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External Disk Drives Increasing in Price

Western Digital announced that today. Shares rose significantly in price.

Seagate: no announcement but Seagate shares rose significantly, also.