Wanting Hsu · Taipei

Exploring the Next Form of Human Settlement

Urban planner by training, working on the energy and data systems that cities now depend on.

Cities and energy, read from open data.

Current BoardWho powers AI, and who pays for it.

Current Board is a weekly radar of the electricity behind AI: who supplies the power for data centers, who pays for it, and what changed this week.

02 · Live · Sep 2026

Where New York uses its energy, and where it comes from.

Every large building's 2024 energy use on one canvas with the city's power plants and substations. Manhattan takes 48% of the demand; Queens holds 60% of the in-city generating capacity.

03 · In progress · Oct 2026

Where is Taiwan's AI data centre capacity actually going?

Announced AI data centre and science-park projects, mapped by county and read against the grid that must feed them.

Under construction · still wiring it up

Featured inCommonWealth Magazine — May 2025

The AI race is also an electricity race

Taiwan's "AI island" moment and the coming era of virtual power plants — an online interview feature and a podcast episode with CommonWealth Magazine, one of Taiwan's key business publications.