The AI Power Surge is Here and Coal is Essential to Meeting It

Big tech’s scramble to deploy ever-larger data centers to serve AI has become the electricity elephant in the room. Across the country, power demand is soaring, and data centers with the energy needs of entire cities – and even states – are driving the surge. Meeting this new demand will require new generation but also […]

On July 24, 2025
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), ICF International, Jesse Jenkins, Manu Asthana, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, National Mining Association (NMA), Rich Nolan, Trump administration

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Recognizing the Full Breadth of the Variability Challenge

As the world begins to use more and more variable renewable energy, we’re learning in real-time just how much more complex and challenging navigating the energy transition will be. A new paper from the International Energy Agency’s International Centre for Sustainable Carbon finds that a potential over-reliance on variable power in trying to maintain a […]

On February 7, 2024
grid reliability, International Centre for Sustainable Carbon, International Energy Agency (IEA), Jesse Jenkins, Princeton, renewable energy, The New York Times