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Re:Requiem for a Solar Plant on Saturday June 21, 2025 @10:03PM (#44342634)
Many people even working in power/energy don't realize how much interconnection costs are a hinderance. Example: see study group DISIS-2021-001 in SPP (a grid region similar to ERCOT/Texas), a good 25 % of the planned capacity was hit with an interconnection cost approx > $300k/MW (which is similar to the cost of the OP).

Predictably, all of those projects dropped out of the interconnection queue / process

https://www.interconnection.fyi/clusters/spp/disis-2021-001

Re:eBay is laying off 9 percent of its workforce on Thursday January 25, 2024 @01:08AM (#39126694)
For folks who are not in tech, check out WARNtracker.com which tracks US layoffs from all companies through mandatory government reporting from the WARN act of 1988, which requires layoffs above a certain size to be reported to state governments.

A good complement for Layoffs.fyi (Sometimes the source of a layoffs.fyi entry will be an article written by a journalist who saw the WARN notice on WARNTracker)

Re:eBay is laying off 9 percent of its workforce on Thursday January 25, 2024 @01:05AM (#39126675)
Checkout WARNtracker.com which tracks US layoffs from all companies through mandatory government reporting (for layoffs above a certain size)!
Re:Tell HN: WARN Act may provide prior notice of layoffs on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @07:54AM (#39116683)
Great summary- we have a more in-depth guide to WARN act and state-level mini-WARN acts here: https://www.warntracker.com/blog/warn-act-guide
Re: on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @11:31PM (#39113644)
A look at the data behind 300,000 government-reported layoffs in 2023.
Isn’t that one Leetcode Hard? (Just looked)
One nit- "Facing many business challenges, large technology companies have laid off more than 386,000 workers nationwide since early 2022, according to layoffs.fyi," -> this nationwide clause is incorrect. Layoffs.fyi aggregates layoff data from tech companies in general, which includes layoffs happening in the US and internationally.

Most of these press releases from companies conducting layoffs aggregated, and the exact US count cannot be determined (example 10,000 laid off from Meta worldwide https://about.fb.com/news/2023/03/mark-zuckerberg-meta-year-... )

The closest thing you can get to US-only layoff count is to look at WARN data (government mandated data). (I run https://www.warntracker.com/, a aggregator website for this government layoff dataset)

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Re:Where have all the laid-off tech workers gone? on Friday March 31, 2023 @12:59PM (#35389927)
If you want a more comprehensive list, here's a list of all the employees anonymized by title that were laid off in California (the only state with google warn filings that publicizes titles in their warn records): https://www.warntracker.com/?company=Google
Re:Where have all the laid-off tech workers gone? on Friday March 31, 2023 @12:58PM (#35389926)
If you want a more comprehensive list, here's a list of all the titles that were laid off in california (the only state with google warn filings that publicizes titles in their warn records): https://www.warntracker.com/?company=Google
Re:Where have all the laid-off tech workers gone? on Friday March 31, 2023 @12:57PM (#35389911)
Re: WARN act filings, here's a list of all the titles that were laid off in california (the only state with google warn filings that publicizes titles in their warn records): https://www.warntracker.com/?company=Google
Re: on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @05:50PM (#35348451)
The Forbes Cloud 100 is a ranking of the top private saas companies (Stripe is #1 for example)

While 48% of the Forbes Cloud 100 have had layoffs since 2022, only 1 of the 5 (20%) remote companies on the list have had layoffs.

The 5 remote companies on the list: Vercel - no layoffs (#95 on the Cloud 100) Zapier - no layoffs (#13 on the Cloud 100) Grafana Labs - no layoffs (#37 on the Cloud 100) dbt Labs - no layoffs (#79 on the Cloud 100) Attentive - 15% layoff in Jan 2023 (#10 on the Cloud 100)

Why might this be? Is it possible that remote companies are more robust to the current layoff wave? Is this just the result of a small, non-stat-sig sample size?

Re: on Saturday March 11, 2023 @01:21PM (#35111013)
interesting! just sent you an email - curious to ask a few qs
Thank you! I don't have that data, but it's easily requestable thru the CA EDD website (see my linkedin post https://bit.ly/google-warn-data ). The hard part is cleaning and extracting the levels from the titles which varies considerably by company
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Thank you! Renamed it US-PLV (Los Angeles / Playa Vista) as suspect few outside of Socal would know where PV is
Ah good call. Changed. Should US-MFA be grouped under US-MTV or are they separate campuses?
I'm Steven, the OP of this Airtable.cool link. Just a FYI this was originally posted on my Linkedin here: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:70265782... - check it out if you want to see some charts I created from this data and other discussions. Long-time lurker of HN so pleasantly surprised someone posted the Airtable.cool link here!
I'm Steven, the OP of this Airtable share link (on Linkedin). there's some discussion about this on my linkedin thread, https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:70265782...

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:70265782...

The gist is that yes, more ICs were laid off, but there are also more ICs overall.

Glad to hear it!

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