Will the AI boom be powered by big, slow energy projects?

Published on July 18, 2025

This analysis and news roundup comes from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. On Tuesday, the president summoned leaders from tech, energy, and finance to Pittsburgh — that Silicon Valley of western Pennsylvania, a veritable Menlo Park on the Monongahela — where executives gushed…

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Virginia regulators sent mixed signals on the state’s clean energy transition this week — accepting utility Dominion Energy’s plan for new fossil-fueled plants on one hand but ordering the company’s future blueprints to better account for the state’s carbon-free electricity law on the other. Dominion’s forecast…