For more than a decade, building a new coal-fired power plant in the United States looked politically, financially, and environmentally impossible. Coal was treated as a fuel of the past: too dirty, too controversial, and too exposed to regulation. But the explosive growth of artificial intelligence and data centers may be changing that calculation. The… Read more: AI’s Power Hunger May Reopen the Door to Coal

Google’s Meitner Energy Center in the Texas Panhandle is being presented as a major clean-energy data center project, but its most important feature may be the inclusion of on-site gas-fired generation. The co-located data center and power-generation complex will rely mainly on more than 1 GW of wind, solar, and battery storage. However, Google and… Read more: Google’s Texas Data Center Project Highlights Continued Reliance on Gas-Fired Power.

The United States is no longer simply one of the world’s major oil producers. It is the world’s dominant producer. According to public data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the United States produced 21.91 million barrels per day of total oil in 2023. That was more than Saudi Arabia at 11.13 million barrels per… Read more: America’s Oil Dominance Is Reshaping the Energy Debate