This Week in Cleantech

Molly Taft

This episode of This Week in Cleantech, guest-hosted by Jeremiah Karpowicz alongside Mike Casey, covers OpenAI's 20-year, 10-gigawatt Ohio data center lease backed by Nvidia; a New York Times look at the aging transformers leaving the U.S. grid vulnerable to a lasting blackout; a Bloomberg report on battery storage projects stuck for years in interconnection queues; Paul Gerke's piece on the DOE scrapping its last three transmission corridor reviews; and WIRED's Molly Taft on the growing, cross-partisan backlash against AI data centers. This week's Cleantecher of the Week is Heron Power's Drew Baglino.

Mike Casey fills in for Paul Gerke and breaks down the week’s biggest cleantech stories, including Tim Pawlenty taking over SEIA, CMBlu’s $58 million flow battery raise, Fervo Energy’s massive geothermal IPO, and EDP’s bullish outlook on U.S. renewables despite political headwinds. WIRED reporter Molly Taft joins to discuss how AI data centers are driving a surge in gas turbine deployments and whether renewables can realistically keep pace with exploding power demand.