Environment

• Europe at 'fork in the road' between AI competition and climate: fund managers - As power-hungry infrastructure scales and demand for electricity surges, friction between competition and climate goals becomes harder to ignore.
• Trump Tosses Lifelines to the Struggling Coal Industry - The Energy Department ordered two coal-burning power plants to remain open, and the Environmental Protection Agency gave utilities more time to tackle toxic coal ash.
• What a Russia-Ukraine peace deal could mean for Europe's gas supplies - While pipeline infrastructure could be salvageable, turning the tap back on is set to be politically controversial.
• Red hot Texas is getting so many data center requests that experts see a bubble - Cheap land and and cheap energy are helping to fuel a boom in proposals to build data centers in Texas.
• ‘Greetings, earthlings’: Nvidia-backed Starcloud trains first AI model in space as orbital data center race heats up - The company's Starcloud-1 satellite is running Gemma, an open model from Google, marking the first time in history that an LLM has been trained in outer space.
• Trump Returns to Gasoline as Fuel of Choice for Cars, Gutting Biden’s Climate Policy - The president said he would weaken Biden-era mileage standards, which were designed to increase electric-vehicle sales, calling them a “scam.”
• How families could get stuck with higher electric bills if the AI data center boom goes bust - Investors and energy analysts question whether the AI race has turned into a bubble, one that would be costly to unravel as major infrastructure gets built.
• Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War - Shifting politics, intensive lobbying and surging disinformation online have undermined international efforts to respond to the threat.