International
US Energy News
California ports expose the state as a national security risk to America
ENB Pub Note: This article was first published on America Outloud, and we highly recommend subscribing to them and Ronald Stein’s news feed. With no pipelines over the Sierra Mountains, California is an energy island separated from the crude oil supply and the infrastructure of oil refineries within the other 49 States. Collectively, California, the […]
Finance
Electrical Generation / Utilities
Chinese Grid Operators Resist Plans To Boost Renewables To Power AI
China’s aggressive push to power its rapidly expanding AI data centers with renewables is running into practical resistance from grid operators, who warn that the sector’s inflexible power demands could increase reliability risks and complicate grid planning. Industry analysts and officials told Reuters that Beijing’s strategic goal of having renewables supply the majority of electricity […]
Chevron and Microsoft Sign 20-Year Power Deal for Texas Data Center
Chevron Corporation and Microsoft have signed a landmark 20-year power purchase agreement to supply electricity to a major data center campus in West Texas. The deal centers on a large natural gas-fired power plant being developed in partnership with investment firm Engine No. 1, marking one of the largest collaborations to date between a U.S. […]
AI / Data Center
Chinese Grid Operators Resist Plans To Boost Renewables To Power AI
China’s aggressive push to power its rapidly expanding AI data centers with renewables is running into practical resistance from grid operators, who warn that the sector’s inflexible power demands could increase reliability risks and complicate grid planning. Industry analysts and officials told Reuters that Beijing’s strategic goal of having renewables supply the majority of electricity […]
Chevron and Microsoft Sign 20-Year Power Deal for Texas Data Center
Chevron Corporation and Microsoft have signed a landmark 20-year power purchase agreement to supply electricity to a major data center campus in West Texas. The deal centers on a large natural gas-fired power plant being developed in partnership with investment firm Engine No. 1, marking one of the largest collaborations to date between a U.S. […]
Tesla Quietly Revealed a Massive AI Infrastructure Play
Tesla has filed a trademark application for “MEGAPOD” — a move that signals far more than just brand protection. It points to a strategic pivot: transforming its vast Supercharger network and global vehicle fleet into one of the world’s largest distributed AI computing platforms. What the MEGAPOD Trademark Actually Means On June 18, 2026, […]
Ohio Business Lobby Pushes Eminent Domain Reforms That Critics Say Could Enable Faster Land Takings for Data Center Infrastructure on Farmland — Raising Serious Property Rights Concerns
Ohio farmers and property rights advocates are sounding the alarm over a recommendation from the powerful Ohio Business Roundtable (OBRT) to reform the state’s eminent domain laws. The proposal would allow faster “possession” and construction on private land for energy infrastructure projects once a court establishes public use and necessity — even while compensation disputes […]
Texas Gov. Abbott Directs PUC and ERCOT to Shield Texans from Data Center and Infrastructure Costs
AUSTIN, Texas — In a decisive move to protect residential electricity ratepayers amid Texas’s explosive data center boom, Governor Greg Abbott today directed the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUC) and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) to ensure that data centers fully fund their own electric infrastructure costs — preventing any of those […]











































