Receipts Week On Boots. Democrats took both chambers, Kansas and Texas flipped, and the letter signers lost their seats. Abby and I graded last week’s predictions, then got into permitting moving after everyone called it dead, Texas promising a data center moratorium, and the tariff math nobody wants to discuss. Including…
Texas Just Turned Blue. The incoming governor pledged a moratorium on new data center approvals until the legislature acts. Union labor, water, NDAs, tax subsidies all on her list. Abby and I worked through what the fastest-growing solar market in America should be asking for now.
Forty-One Out Of Forty-Two. Data center referendums went down almost everywhere they appeared. I dug into the one that passed, in Harwood, North Dakota, and came out with a number that reframes every siting fight ahead: 96% of America sits outside any city jurisdiction.
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- Boots on the Ground: The Receipts Episode – A Blue Wave, Permitting Moves Anyway, and What’s Next For Texas
- The Guardian: Senate advances bill to speed up projects from gas pipelines to clean energy
- Utility Dive: Inside the ‘pressure cooker’ – Electric utility regulators gather in wake of electoral earthquake
- Bloomberg: Europe Power Prices Shoot Above €600 as Wind Collapses
- Axios: Congress faces an especially lame lame-duck session
- Reuters: AI power rush sends data centres hunting for used turbines and jet engines
- Enegy Storage News: Removing barriers to distributed energy resources could save US power system US$614 billion by 2050, report finds
- Heatmap News: The Last-Minute Changes to the Senate Permitting Deal, Explained
- Canary Media: Where’s the beef? Under the solar panels.
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