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Transcript: Starting a Giant Online Data Platform Is the Easy Part

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This transcript has been automatically generated. Subscribe to “Shift Key” and find this episode on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Amazon , YouTube , or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also add the show’s RSS feed to your podcast app to follow us directly. Robinson Meyer: Hello, it’s Wednesday, September 16, and for a long time, the U.S. Energy Information Administration, or EIA, has had the absolute best data on U.S. energy use and I’d say the broader U.S. industrial economy. I mean, it is just absurdly high quality stuff. If you live in the U.S. And you want to understand, say, the amount of rooftop solar in your state or how many megawatts of battery storage there are in your state or the size of a state’s natural gas production or which state produces the most electricity per person, it’s Wyoming, or whether electricity prices have gone up as demand from AI data centers increases, the answer is all on their website. Robinson Meyer: This is not something that I think exists nece