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Data center debacles

By Kathryn Krawczyk

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This roundup of U.S. energy news headlines is part of our Canary Media Daily newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox each morning.

GRID

  • Tech companies including Meta and Microsoft are increasingly abandoning their renewable power goals to build gas plants that will power expanding data centers. (Washington Post)

FOSSIL FUELS

  • BP will reportedly drop its renewable power goals and redouble efforts to produce fossil fuels. (Reuters)

  • A think tank finds fossil fuel companies are using similar lobbying tactics in the U.S., EU, and Australia to block building electrification policies. (Grist)

TRANSPORTATION

  • The General Services Administration, which manages federal buildings, says it will shut down the 8,000 electric vehicle chargers it operates across the country. (The Verge)

  • The Trump administration has begun the process of attempting to revoke California’s authority to set its own vehicle emissions standards, which Massachusetts and several other Northeast states have also adopted. (CommonWealth Beacon)

POLITICS

  • Some school districts say they regained access to electric bus grants late last week after the Trump administration’s freeze on federal clean energy funding. (New York Times)

  • House Republicans launch an effort to rescind Biden-era water efficiency standards and an EPA rule fining oil and gas operators for methane emissions. (E&E News)

CLIMATE

  • The Trump administration directs U.S. scientists to stop working on the IPCC climate report ahead of a global meeting this week. (CNN)

CLEAN ENERGY:

  • National Grid finalizes a deal to sell its U.S. onshore renewables business to Brookfield Asset Management. (Reuters)

  • The U.S. saw a record-high $272 billion invested in clean energy and transportation in 2024 but growth slowed down in the final quarter of the year. (Clean Investment Monitor)

OVERSIGHT

  • FERC Chair Mark Christie says a Trump administration executive order targeting the agency essentially reiterates policies it’s been following for years. (Utility Dive)

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