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• Dec 10, 2025

  Key Cloud Trends That I&O Leaders Should Leverage in 2026

  Gartner has published a summary of seven cloud trends for Infrastructure & Operations (I&O) leaders and will present additional insights at its Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conferences.

  • Main announcement: Gartner outlines seven cloud trends I&O leaders must prepare for: AI Supercomputing, Geopatriation, Cross-Cloud Integration, Business-Driven Cloud Strategy, Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure (DHI), Cloud and GenAI, and Industry Cloud Platforms (ICPs). The guidance includes recommended actions such as assessing workload criticality for geopatriation, identifying distributed applications for cross-cloud use, evaluating DHI providers, and addressing GenAI nontechnical requirements (accuracy, IP, cost, sovereignty, sustainability, security, privacy).
  • Background and event details: Gartner analysts (including David Smith) will expand on these trends at an upcoming conference.
    • Date: December 9-11
    • Time: not specified in the article
    • Location: Las Vegas, United States
    • Agenda / subject: Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference — deeper insights on cloud strategies, infrastructure and operations trends for I&O leaders
• Dec 10, 2025

  Wind and solar power frozen out of Trump permitting push

  The Trump administration has frozen approvals for major onshore wind and solar projects, requiring Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to personally sign off on new renewable decisions and effectively stalling new permits since July.

  • Main action: The Interior Department’s policy mandates personal sign-off by Secretary Doug Burgum, resulting in only one solar project approved on federal lands since January and no permits since July; Wood Mackenzie identified 18 gigawatts of solar projects on federal lands that were canceled or inactive this year, and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) estimates more than 500 solar and storage projects are threatened.
  • Background and concrete details: The Bureau of Land Management canceled the environmental review for Esmeralda 7 (seven solar farms across 62,000 acres); Boulder City currently receives $21 million/year from leases and could gain $3 million/year from two projects now stalled; agencies including the Army Corps and US Fish and Wildlife Service have tightened reviews (Army Corps prioritizing projects by energy-per-acre, and Fish and Wildlife restricting access to a planning tool for solar and wind).
• Dec 10, 2025

  Top Environmental Victories of 2025

  The Sierra Club announces a roundup of its top environmental victories in 2025.

  • Major announced actions: The article catalogs specific legal, legislative, and advocacy wins including: stopping a proposed public-lands sell-off after Congressional withdrawal; passage of the Climate Change Superfund Act in New York (following Vermont in 2024) and introduced bills in California, New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Maine; legal victories blocking Commonwealth LNG (coastal use permit terminated) and two lawsuits creating guardrails on data centers in Kansas and Michigan; NEVI program restart unlocking $2.7 billion for EV charging; and a $744 million jury verdict against Chevron for coastal damages in Louisiana.
  • Background and additional details: The piece lists species and land protections (Northern Rockies wolves, Colorado bison, Rice’s whales), closure of Merrimack Station (final New England coal plant) and repeal of an Ohio coal-bailout that would have cost nearly half a billion dollars, passage of Utah’s balcony solar law allowing small plug-in systems without utility approval, a coalition delivering ~500,000 public comments to defend the Roadless Rule (including 40,000 from Sierra Club advocates), and a world-record origami action sending more than 86,000 paper fish to oppose Enbridge’s Line 5.
• Dec 2, 2025 · RMI

  The Five Types of Electro-Industrial States

  Rocky Mountain Institute presents a typology classifying US states into five electro-industrial archetypes.

  • Main announcement/action: RMI authors classify states into five archetypes — Momentum Hubs (Arizona, California), Fast‑Track Builders (Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Ohio, Idaho), Policy Champions (New York, Michigan, Virginia, Oregon, Washington, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania), Open‑Door Starters (Vermont, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Mississippi, Iowa), and Early‑Stage Starters (Missouri, New Hampshire, Kentucky, Maine, Alabama, Louisiana, Indiana, West Virginia, Montana, Arkansas). The typology is based on policy reliability, regulatory ease, economic capacity, physical infrastructure (power and interconnection), and market momentum.
  • Background and details: The analysis highlights that market momentum and policy reliability should operate in tandem; low regulatory burdens accelerate short-term investment but may strain local housing and infrastructure without accompanying policy ambition. The authors reference the report GREASE Lightning as a policy playbook for designing investment-led, state-driven electro-industrial strategies.
• Nov 7, 2025 · RMI

  Rewiring Utility Planning for the Age of Rapid Load Growth

  RMI offers ways to accelerate utility planning and procurement to keep pace with rapid large-load growth and avoid costly over- or under-building of grid capacity. Contact: Charles Cannon (ccannon@rmi.org); attend RMI staff at the upcoming National Association of Regulatory Commissioners Conference in Seattle.

  • Main announcement/action: RMI recommends faster, adaptive utility planning and procurement processes to address rapidly rising load forecasts (Engage & Act shows aggregate 2035 demand forecasts rose >20% from Dec 2020 to Jun 2025). Key specifics include Georgia Power’s 2030 demand rising by 7 GW between 2022 and 2025 IRPs, utilities receiving hundreds of megawatts of load requests quarterly, and the IRP update cadence averaging 2.83 years. RMI cites a Virginia utility example estimating ~$2 billion in one-time costs from early overbuilding and a similar ~$2 billion potential loss in Virginia GDP from underbuilding.
  • Background and other details: RMI documents concrete planning frictions and proposed fixes: 2 years typical lead time to build fastest utility-scale resources; examples of interim updates include Georgia Power (quarterly large-load updates) and NV Energy (5 IRP amendments in 3 years); proposed tools include stochastic planning, more frequent interim procurements, tariff-based large load options (e.g., Nevada’s Clean Transition Tariff), and alternative modeling approaches explored by Telos Energy and GridLab.
• Nov 6, 2025 · RMI

  How Virtual Power Plants Can Help the United States Win the AI Race

  RMI publishes an analytical brief recommending rapid deployment and novel commercial models for virtual power plants (VPPs) to speed interconnection and reliably supply growing AI/data-center loads in the United States.

  • Main announcement/action: RMI proposes three commercial models (Pass-Through Funding for Utility-Managed VPPs; VPP Capacity Transfer; VPP as Reliability Reinforcement) to enable large loads to sponsor VPP capacity in exchange for expedited interconnection. Key figures and timelines include VPPs could scale to meet over 20% of US peak demand by 2030, Brattle’s finding that 400 MW of VPP resource adequacy costs ~$2 million annually versus ~$43 million for equivalent new gas plants and grid upgrades, and examples of program scale such as California’s DSGS enrolling over 750 MW (including a 500 MW increase during Jan–Oct 2025). Utility and grid timing constraints cited include gas turbine backlogs through at least 2028, average interconnection timelines >5 years, and localized waits (e.g., Dominion warns up to 7 years in Northern Virginia; some DFW data center deliveries delayed to 2027 or later).

  • Background and implementation details: The brief documents operational examples (National Grid Connected Solutions; Green Mountain Power battery programs; Ontario 90 MW residential VPP that enrolled 100,000 homes in six months) and outlines policy and market prerequisites: changes to interconnection policy (e.g., Oregon, Nevada, CAISO, SPP experiments), stronger integrated planning and data access (capacity accreditation, Green Button Connect), and customer protection measures (transparent tariffs, up-front payments/long-term contracts, rate-design evaluations). It emphasizes measurement & verification, transferable capacity credits, and that models shift different financial and delivery risks among large loads, VPP aggregators, and utilities.

• Nov 6, 2025

  Tech Giants Pour Billions Into Solar Power as Data Centers Strain the Grid

  The article reports that America’s rapid data center expansion is colliding with shifting federal energy policy and mounting obstacles to renewable projects, illustrated by the Trump administration’s October cancellation of the Esmeralda 7 solar project’s environmental review.

  • Main announcement/action: The article documents the cancellation of the Esmeralda 7 Nevada solar project’s environmental review by the Bureau of Land Management in October, and describes how rapid data center growth is stressing grids (PJM warning in May) and increasing demand for fast, local clean energy solutions; Virginia’s Permit By Rule enables projects under 150 MW to move from application to operation within two years or less.
  • Background and key details:Virginia imported more than 50 million MWh in 2023 (EIA); a 2024 state report warns electricity consumption in Virginia could triple by 2040; corporate actions include Microsoft adding 860 MW in 2024, Meta developing >900 MW in Texas, Amazon having 13.6 GW in progress (including a 500-MW Webb County project), and Google’s $20 billion partnership with Intersect Power and operation of 312 MW of battery capacity.
• Oct 8, 2025

  WiredRE Development Corp Launches Occupier Partnership Program (OPP) to Accelerate Delivery of AI and Cloud Compute Capacity

  WiredRE Development Corp announced the launch of its Occupier Partnership Program (OPP) to directly engage AI, cloud, and enterprise firms seeking large-scale, power-ready data center capacity.

  • Main action: The OPP provides a co-developed site delivery framework for occupiers, promising predictable delivery of capacity and an intention of delivering first megawatts within 12 to 24 months, plus pre-qualified sites, shared project management, and options for wholesale multi-site portfolio transactions.
  • Background & details: WDC pairs OPP with its existing Power & Real Estate Partnership (PREP) Program to form a closed-loop development ecosystem; WDC is advancing due-diligence on over 8GW of powered land opportunities in North America and supports both programs via the WiredRE Platform (a 10,000-member global expert network).
• Oct 6, 2025 · Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

  Tip of the Iceberg: Understanding the Full Depth of Big Tech’s Contribution to US Innovation and Competitiveness

  The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) argues that U.S. “big tech” firms (Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft) provide critical R&D, infrastructure, and national-security spillovers that policymakers must account for when designing regulation or antitrust policy.

  • Main announcement / action: ITIF presents an analysis claiming the five largest U.S. tech firms invested $227 billion in R&D in 2024 and over $250 billion in capital expenditures in 2024, financing frontier projects (AI, quantum, semiconductors), strategic infrastructure (hyperscale data centers, subsea cables), and long-term energy deals (e.g., Alphabet–Kairos Power agreement to deliver six or seven SMRs between 2030–2035; Amazon anchored a $500 million investment round in X-energy; Amazon committed $150 billion to data center expansion over 15 years). These are presented as concrete, long-horizon commitments that create private demand signals for nuclear and other clean-energy technologies and underpin U.S. competitiveness vs. China.
  • Background and other details: The report documents open-research spillovers (AlphaFold, GraphCast, TensorFlow/PyTorch), startup and talent ecosystem links (acquisitions like YouTube/Android; AWS/Google/Microsoft startup programs and cloud credits), and defense ties (cloud contracts such as JWCC up to $9B to 2028, Microsoft IVAS $22B program). It cites third-party estimates and examples with timelines and dollar figures and urges regulators to include these quantified spillovers in cost-benefit analyses rather than only tallying harms.
• Jul 16, 2025

  GM to put new and used EV batteries in Redwood Energy storage systems

  General Motors has signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding with Redwood Materials to accelerate deployment of energy storage systems using both new and second-life GM batteries.

  • Redwood Materials launched Redwood Energy in June 2025 to deploy used EV packs and new modules into fast, low-cost energy-storage systems, targeting surging power demand from AI data centers and other applications.
  • GM second-life EV batteries are being used in a 12-MW/63-MWh installation in Sparks, Nevada, supporting AI infrastructure company Crusoe, which is expected to be the largest second-life battery development in the world.