Always On Energy Research co-founder and President Amy Cooke joined the Scott Sloan Show to dismantle the argument that data centers are driving up electricity prices. Load growth from AI, advanced manufacturing, and reshoring exposed a shortfall of reliable, dispatchable generation that 20 years of bad policy created. Cooke makes the case for new natural […]

Why are electricity prices rising across Virginia, Maryland, Washington, D.C., and other parts of the country? According to Amy Cooke, president and chairman of Always On Energy Research, the problem isn’t AI data centers or economic growth — it’s energy policy. In this interview on FOX 5’s On the Hill, Cooke explains why surging electricity […]

There is a massive pushback against data center growth in the United States. Our friend Robert Bryce’s data center rejection database now tracks over 300 bans worldwide as of this writing. Furthermore, these bans now transcend local and county bans to affect data center development across entire states, including New York and Texas. Personally, appreciate AI because it has enabled us […]

As if to welcome the nation’s utility regulators to Minneapolis for the National Association of Regulatory Commissioners (NARUC) summer meeting next week, MISO declared an Energy Emergency Alert Level 2 on Wednesday, July 15th, citing forced generation outages, above-normal temperatures, and higher-than-forecasted load. Interestingly, MISO did not mention that its wind resources, which constitute 33,687 megawatts (MW) of installed capacity and […]

Always On Vice President of Research Isaac Orr joined Good Morning Liberty to explain why grid reliability went from a 2030s worry to a near-term one. AI data centers and electric vehicle mandates are piling new demand onto a system that keeps retiring coal and nuclear capacity, and Orr points to NERC warning of high […]