Everyone Wants in on Brazil’s Rare Earths
But is Brasília ready to meet the moment?
Non-Resident Fellow
A Texas Tribune analysis identified at least 248 planned data center projects. Opponents fear the projects will spike Texans’ electric bills and make the grid less reliable. But industry representatives say they promise huge economic gains.
Tiffany Wu on how ERCOT's batch zero process will decide which large loads get studied first, which transmission gets built, and who pays for it.
Eric Goff, founder of Goff Policy on batch zero, transmission planning, and how Texas can serve new load without shifting costs onto existing customers.
Tech giant Meta is paying to build a natural gas-fired plant to power its El Paso data center, but regulatory filings show the agreement is temporary, raising questions about how Texas ratepayers will be protected once the initial five-year period ends.
Clean energy brought income to ranchers and to counties buffeted by boom-and-bust oil cycles. Federal policy changes threaten that momentum.