Bill Kleyman, who will be moderating our Keynote Panel at the 2nd Annual Permian Power Connection Conference, shares a fantastic article.

President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he is set to reach agreements with major technology companies to prevent the rapid expansion of data centers from increasing utility bills in the United States.

Smith's comments come as data centers have faced opposition in towns where they want to build.

Dina Powell McCormick, wife of Sen. Dave McCormick and former Trump advisor, has been named president and vice chair of Meta, the social media titan behind platforms like Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.

The agreements, finalized through Meta’s nuclear request-for-proposals (RFP) process launched in December 2024, mark one of the largest corporate nuclear procurement efforts in U.S. history.

ProPWR, continues to rack up contracts a year into operation. A division of ProPetro, ProPWR has executed a contract to provide turnkey power for the development and installation of distributed microgrids throughout the New Mexico portion of the Permian Basin with a subsidiary of Coterra Energy Inc.

The legislation is intended to allow energy-intensive industries to build customized electricity systems without affecting existing power grids and to save consumers money.

Increasing demand from tech industry threatens to max out generation capacity in 13-state region; rate increases anger consumers

Texas’s SB6 legislation shifts grid costs and reliability duties to large-load users, setting a template that could spread beyond ERCOT.