Data Centers Are Creating a New Kind of Battery Monster
Just a handful of tech companies plan to spend nearly $700 billion combined this year investing in artificial intelligence — and much of that money will go to data centers and the energy used to keep ...
25 Feb 57min
What the Supreme Court’s Tariff Ruling Means for the Energy Transition
The Supreme Court just struck down President Trump’s most ambitious tariff plan. What does that ruling mean for clean energy? For the data center boom? For America’s industrial policy?On this emergenc...
21 Feb 29min
The Outdated Economics Driving Trump’s Car Standards Rollback
President Donald Trump has essentially killed all fuel economy rules on cars and trucks in the United States. By the end of the year, automakers will face virtually no limits on how many huge gas guzz...
20 Feb 39min
Trump’s Assault on the Clean Air Act and What Happens Next
Rob is joined by Jody Freeman, the director of the Environmental and Energy Law Program at Harvard Law School, to discuss the Trump administration’s war on the endangerment finding. They chat about ho...
16 Feb 42min
The Power Grid Just Passed Its Biggest Test in Years
On this week’s episode of Shift Key, Rob and Jesse announce some news about the show — and also debrief on how the Northeastern U.S. power grid performed during the past few weeks of unusually intense...
13 Feb 46min
What Senator Martin Heinrich Needs to See in a Permitting Deal
Rob talks to Senator Martin Heinrich about whether Republicans and Democrats will reach a permitting reform deal this year. They chat about what Democrats would need to see in such a deal, how it coul...
9 Feb 32min
Trump’s Most Self-Defeating Move on Rare Minerals
President Trump announced on Monday that the U.S. would create a domestic stockpile of critical minerals for civilian use — essentially a Strategic Petroleum Reserve, but for lithium, copper, rare ear...
4 Feb 49min
What the China-Canada EV Trade Deal Really Means
It’s been a huge few weeks for the electric vehicle industry — at least in North America.After a major trade deal, Canada is set to import tens of thousands of new electric vehicles from China every y...
28 Jan 46min
