The May 2026 edition of our monthly newsletter features our latest research, Introducing the Social Cost of Blackouts. Federal and state regulators already attach a dollar value to carbon emissions through the Social Cost of Carbon and rely on it to justify burdensome regulations and subsidies. Nothing equivalent prices the outages those same rules produce. […]

Always On’s Director of Research and Co-Founder Mitch Rolling joined KURV’s The 956 Drive Home to explain why the Texas’ electric grid has not been prepared for new AI demand. With data centers pulling load forecasts upward at a pace utilities haven’t seen in a generation, Mitch laid out why data centers aren’t the culprit […]

Always On co-founder and Director of Research Mitch Rolling joined Fox 5 Live in Washington, D.C. to break down President Trump’s Ratepayer Protection Pledge, the March 4 agreement in which Google, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, xAI, OpenAI, and Amazon committed to building, bringing, or buying all energy needed for their data centers rather than passing those […]