Taiga Cogger, Author at Got Nuclear

Energy and Industry

Taiga Cogger March 14, 2026 No Comments

If you travel through Japan’s industrial regions, one thing becomes clear very quickly. The country’s economy is built on systems that run continuously. Steel plants, chemical complexes, semiconductor fabrication lines,…

After March 11: What Comes Next

Taiga Cogger March 14, 2026 No Comments

This week marks the fifteenth anniversary of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Every year on March 11, Japan pauses at 2:46 p.m., the moment the earthquake struck in 2011. In…

Fragile Energy Systems

Taiga Cogger March 5, 2026 No Comments

When tensions rise in the Middle East, the first signs rarely appear where the conflict is happening; they appear in energy markets. Oil prices begin to move, tanker insurance costs…

Structural Energy Independence

Taiga Cogger March 5, 2026 No Comments

With open military confrontation now unfolding in the Middle East, I’ve been struck by how quickly distant events reach into everyday life. The Strait of Hormuz is thousands of kilometers…

Hyperscale Energy, Speed, and Stability

Taiga Cogger February 27, 2026 No Comments

In discussions about artificial intelligence, the word hyperscale appears constantly. At first it sounds like it simply means very large. In reality it describes something deeper. Hyperscale refers to infrastructure…

Reluctant Acceptance

Taiga Cogger February 19, 2026 No Comments

For a long time, I noticed something strange about conversations on climate and nuclear energy. Even people who are deeply worried about global warming often hesitate when nuclear comes up.…

Moving East

Taiga Cogger February 19, 2026 No Comments

Nuclear energy has quietly returned to the climate conversation. Not as a slogan, and not as a universal comeback story, but as a practical question: if the world needs to…

The Buildings That Never Sleep

Taiga Cogger February 11, 2026 No Comments

A friend once told me, half jokingly, that the internet feels free only because someone else is paying for it. At the time, I laughed and moved on. But the…

When AI Turns on the LightsThe Ghost in the Bill

Taiga Cogger February 11, 2026 No Comments

I didn’t start thinking about data centers because I was curious about servers or artificial intelligence. I started thinking about them because my electricity bill didn’t make sense. Nothing in…

Living with Vulnerability

Taiga Cogger February 5, 2026 No Comments

For a long time, I thought energy debates were about choosing sides. Renewable versus nuclear. Safety versus risk. Progress versus the past. The arguments were loud, but they never quite…

Author: Taiga Cogger