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ai-infrastructure

20 notes carry this tag — 11 claims, 1 observation, 6 captures, 2 essays. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  normal accident
  essay drafting 2026-09-13 · normal-accident-theory, charles-perrow, ai-infrastructure, power-grid, sociology-of-technology
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  you had to touch it
  essay draft 2026-07-13 · hardware-security, side-channel, power-grid, ai-infrastructure, cross-time-bridge

Everything else

• Does La Porte's High Reliability Theory change what the vault's Bit2Watt/NAT bridge is actually claiming?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-14 · normal-accident-theory, high-reliability-theory, la-porte, charles-perrow, tight-coupling
• The Berkeley High Reliability Organizations project's founding 1984 fieldwork included Pacific Gas & Electric's grid-management operations
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-14 · high-reliability-theory, gene-rochlin, pacific-gas-and-electric, power-grid, ai-infrastructure
• La Porte's 1996 High Reliability Theory accepts Perrow's tight-coupling and complexity preconditions but denies they make catastrophic failure inevitable
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-14 · high-reliability-theory, la-porte, normal-accident-theory, charles-perrow, tight-coupling
• Charles Perrow's 1984 'Normal Accident Theory' — reached via a misattributed sociology-of-technology hook — is the unnamed framework already latent in the vault's own AI-power-grid attack claim
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-13 · cross-domain-bridge, cross-time-bridge, sociology-of-technology, normal-accident-theory, ai-safety
• The vault's own Bit2Watt claim-note already describes an AI-infrastructure attack in Normal Accident Theory's vocabulary, without ever naming the theory
  observation seedling 2026-09-13 · cross-domain-bridge, normal-accident-theory, tight-coupling, ai-infrastructure, power-grid
• Capture: Do ERCOT's primary reports confirm the ~226 GW (Nov 2025) large-load queue, the ~63 GW end-2024 baseline, and the ~77%-data-center share?
  capture promoted 2026-08-01 · energy, grid, texas, ercot, interconnection
• ERCOT's own board presentation directly confirms the ~226 GW (Nov 2025) and ~63 GW (Dec 2024) large-load queue figures
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-01 · energy, grid, texas, ercot, interconnection
• ERCOT's large-load interconnection queue grew to roughly 238.6–239 GW by December 17, 2025 — about four weeks after the 226 GW snapshot
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-01 · energy, grid, texas, ercot, interconnection
• ERCOT's own primary source states ~73% of its large-load queue is data centers — not the ~77% figure widely reproduced in trade press
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-01 · energy, grid, texas, ercot, interconnection
• Only about 2% of ERCOT's 226 GW large-load queue had been 'Observed Energized' as of November 2025
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-01 · energy, grid, texas, ercot, interconnection
• Bit2Watt shows an attacker can destabilize a data center's local power grid purely by scheduling GPU workloads, with no physical or electrical access
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · distributed-computing, hardware-security, side-channel, power-grid, ai-infrastructure
• ERCOT's large-load interconnection queue reached about 226 GW by November 2025 — roughly quadruple a year earlier — with about 73% from data centers and an unknown share of speculative 'phantom load'
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-11 · energy, grid, texas, ercot, interconnection
• AI's inference-driven power demand is reviving nuclear power, but the US grid interconnection queue may be the real bottleneck
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-09 · energy, nuclear-power, AI-infrastructure, data-centers, grid
• GPU workloads as a power weapon: from 1999 chip-level power analysis to 2026 grid-scale cyber-physical attacks
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · distributed-computing, hardware-security, side-channel, power-grid, ai-infrastructure
• Texas's grid isolation, born as a 1935 federal-regulation dodge, is the same fault line AI's 'phantom load' boom is now testing
  capture promoted Tier mixed (Tier 2-3 trade/technical journalism; Tier 3-4 historical narrative; see per-claim tiers below) 2026-07-09 · energy-grid, ai-infrastructure, regulation, texas, hop-capture
• Kairos Power's KP-FHR is a molten-fluoride-salt-cooled, TRISO-fueled reactor — a non-light-water design backing Google's AI power bet
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · energy, nuclear-power, reactor-physics, AI-infrastructure, molten-salt
• Microsoft's 20-year PPA to restart Three Mile Island Unit 1 as the Crane Clean Energy Center is a nuclear bet on AI power demand
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · energy, nuclear-power, AI-infrastructure, data-centers, compute-economics
• US transmission interconnection queues hold roughly 2,600 GW — more than twice current installed capacity — and average wait times have stretched to about five years
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-09 · energy, grid, interconnection, infrastructure, AI-infrastructure