Trump-branded AI data center megaproject stalls, CEO departs Fermi America is emerging as a high-profile test of ambitious AI data center projects.

Via @axios.com @amyaharder.bsky.social: www.axios.com/2026/04/19/a...

AI's power demands give carbon capture a new push Tech companies are taking a fresh look.

Interesting look via @axios.com's @amyaharder.bsky.social at whether the AI boom can finally create escape velocity for carbon capture in the power sector. Big tech has lots of money but the economics are still tough. #climate #energy #AI

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And here's a link to the filing: www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...

📣News: EPA's repeal of the endangerment finding is *already* surfacing in separate #climate litigation. Intervenors defending Vermont's "climate superfund" law today filed a motion saying repeal undercuts the EPA/DOJ position against the Vermont law. #energy

Oops meant to type "wrote in our newsletter" but you get the point.

Also @robbieorvis.bsky.social we corrected our item. We always strive for accuracy, even in lighter items, and I missed the mark here.

No @jessedjenkins.com is innocent! It's my bad. I wrongly wrote our in newsletter that he coined the term BYONCE (Bring Your Own New Clean Energy). Jesse never claimed he coined it. I read too much into his post lauding it. I hope this helps Beyoncé's career take off. She has potential.

It's also quite the time capsule. The Damon line used in the promotion — "It's running out, and 90% of what's left is in the Middle East" — is a relic of the "peak oil" era when that referred to supply. (2/2)

Oh man I loved this movie. Everyone is fantastic — Wright, Cooper, Clooney, Siddig, everyone. So well written too. Time was I could reenact the entire Tim Blake Nelson "corruption" speech. (1/2)

How energy powers your AI work and fun: a step-by-step guide www.axios.com/2025/12/28/e... via @axios.com

End product test case: My giant cat next to Seattle’s Space Needle.

Gallego launches cost-focused energy plan amid 2028 chatter His plan arrives as energy costs are atop the political radar.

🗳️Potential 2028 vibes? Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego dropped a new #energy plan. He's a potential White House hopeful. The plan is very much of this political moment: very heavy on affordability, #climate is there but far from the A message. www.axios.com/2025/12/03/g...

Here's recent @axios.com coverage of Gates' climate posture via @amyaharder.bsky.social (2/2)
www.axios.com/2025/11/04/c...
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👀Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D) went apesh*t on Bill Gates this morning in a press briefing from #COP30. Here's part of what he said via the @axios.com Future of Energy newsletter (1/2) #energy #climate

Is it "widely agreed" that more LNG exports = higher domestic gas prices? (I realize I'm connecting concepts 1 and 3 of your sentence.) I see analysts on various sides of this question. Seems quite possible, but also quite hard to game out, with tons of variables, the future being what it is.

Axios Future of Energy

📣Newsy tidbits in this morning's @axios.com
Future of Energy newsletter. EV maker Lucid Motors will soon unveil a vehicle-to-home (V2H) offering. And NY state officials are taking the next steps on plans for at least 1GW of new #NuclearPower upstate. #energy #climate www.axios.com/newsletters/...

Axios Future of Energy

🚨Exclusive via @axios.com: policy vets of Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy have decamped to launch a new nonprofit group called the Clean Economy Project. Ten staff to start, multi-million budget, philanthropic and VC investor backing, focus on power. www.axios.com/newsletters/...

VC heavyweight raises $1.36B for latest growth-stage fund It's a testament to capital backing solutions to rising power demand despite a tough funding environment.

🚨News: Energy Impact Partners raised $1.36 billion for its latest growth-stage fund. I chatted with EIP founder Hans Kobler about their theory of the case, via @axios.com #energy #climate #climatesky #AI www.axios.com/2025/10/07/v...

Axios Future of Energy Must-read energy and climate news and analysis that spans policy, science, tech deals, and more. By Ben Geman and Amy Harder.

Here's the sign up page for the Future of Energy newsletter from @amyaharder.bsky.social and me. (2/2) www.axios.com/signup/axios...

Investor-owned utilities tell EPA they could face legal quicksand if the endangerment finding goes away. Via the @axios.com
Future of Energy newsletter. #Energy #climate #Trump #electricity (1/2)

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Full comments from the EPA docket. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... (2/2)

🚨Tesla presses #Trump's EPA not to repeal the formal "endangerment finding" that provides the legal foundation for tailpipe CO2 regs. New comments defend regs too but say they could be streamlined. #climate #energy #electricvehicles (1/2)

My next beginning: Energy, AI & more at Axios My new gig as national energy correspondent!

Some news from me —

I’m (re)joining @axios.com as national energy correspondent! Excited to cover the future of energy, with a focus on AI + innovation — and to reunite with former colleagues. This feels like a homecoming and a new beginning. 🚀 More here: bit.ly/4ncRL1A

Here's Interior's order on Revolution Wind. www.boem.gov/sites/defaul...

The shaky CW when Empire Wind was halted was that offshore #wind projects much further along were safer. The #Trump admin's new stop-work order on Revolution Wind shows that's not the case. #energy

EPA looks to overturn the scientific reason for climate regulations The move is guaranteed to spark litigation.

🚨🚨 Breaking: EPA head Lee Zeldin announced a proposal to overturn the endangerment finding — a key legal underpinning for emissions regs — in an appearance broadcast Tuesday on the Ruthless podcast. www.axios.com/2025/07/29/e...

🚨🚨Breaking: DOE terminates conditional $4.9 billion loan guarantee for Invenergy's proposed Grain Belt Express transmission line that was issued in the Biden-era's waning weeks. #energy #climate #climatesky #greensky

Here's the report language: docs.house.gov/meetings/AP/...

🚨House GOP appropriators, in report language on fiscal '26, look to end U.S. funding for the International Energy Agency. Most direct effort I've seen on this front. Language below. #energy #OOTT #climate #climatesky #energysky

Congrats! Good get for Heatmap.

Bonus: There's an extremely GenX-friendly bespoke Giphy in today's kicker item.