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Behind the Meter (BTM): Why Oil & Gas Companies Are Also Becoming Power Companies
Energy News Beat Channel — September 11, 2026 Hector Acevedo put the industry’s new map on the table this week: AI did not just raise electricity demand. It collapsed the old division of labor. Utilities no longer have a monopoly on electrons. Oil and gas companies no longer stop at molecules. Hyperscalers no longer wait […]
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Electrical Generation / Utilities
Behind the Meter (BTM): Why Oil & Gas Companies Are Also Becoming Power Companies
Energy News Beat Channel — September 11, 2026 Hector Acevedo put the industry’s new map on the table this week: AI did not just raise electricity demand. It collapsed the old division of labor. Utilities no longer have a monopoly on electrons. Oil and gas companies no longer stop at molecules. Hyperscalers no longer wait […]
Why California Is Reconsidering Its Decision to Shun Nuclear Power
The state is considering extending the life of its last nuclear power plant, Diablo Canyon, and allowing construction of new reactors to help meet its clean energy goals. California spent decades treating nuclear power as a political pariah. It shuttered every plant except Diablo Canyon, enacted a 1976-era moratorium on new reactors until a federal […]
AI / Data Center
Behind the Meter (BTM): Why Oil & Gas Companies Are Also Becoming Power Companies
Energy News Beat Channel — September 11, 2026 Hector Acevedo put the industry’s new map on the table this week: AI did not just raise electricity demand. It collapsed the old division of labor. Utilities no longer have a monopoly on electrons. Oil and gas companies no longer stop at molecules. Hyperscalers no longer wait […]
Edgeworks Revolution: Bringing AI Compute to Where Power Lives
Following our article yesterday, here is a discussion on “Data Center Solutions Done Right,” as we say in Texas. In this episode of the Energy News Beat Podcast, host Stu Turley sits down with Jon Brewton, CEO and Founder of Data2, and Kyle Koss, President of ATCO Ventures, to explore a critical challenge facing the […]
The backlash is real, bipartisan, and already killing projects
Data Centers Done Right are a good thing – Done Wrong and we get problems. This is not a fringe NIMBY story. Polling flipped with unusual speed. A March 2026 Gallup survey found 71 percent of Americans opposed a data center in their area, including 48 percent who were strongly opposed — higher than opposition […]
“Profound Game-Changer”: Musk Launching New Turbine Blade Factory To Solve Shortage Threatening AI Boom
Elon Musk confirmed on August 29 that SpaceX is bringing the hardest part of the gas-turbine supply chain in-house: casting hot-section blades and vanes at a new foundry in Bastrop, Texas. He called the move “a profound game-changer” because those parts—not the rest of the machine—are what now set the pace of new natural-gas generation […]
US gas is winning the AI sprint. China is still winning the power marathon.
The United States has pulled ahead of China in building natural gas plants to feed AI data centers. That is a real, measurable shift. It is also not the whole race. Global Energy Monitor’s mid-2026 update, reported by the Washington Examiner, shows U.S. gas projects under construction at 52 GW after a 76% jump in […]
