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What About the EPA’s Endangerment Finding?
The EPA’s C02 Endangerment Finding of 2009 is under the gun by President Trump’s current (2025) initiative, “Unleashing American Energy.” Here is a quick timeline of important executive orders issued over the past 15 years to help lay out the landscape for legal battles to come.
SMRs and Other Unicorns
So what does any of this have to do with small modular nuclear reactors? Well there are lots of data centers pending. Microsoft recently announced three new ones. There’s not enough spare electricity capacity to power them. But at this time, SMR’s are just theories. Imaginary unicorns. Apparently there are none in the U.S. None, ready for prime time. None, ready to license their technologies.
Under the Bus
You might think the Governor and the Legislature threw Entergy Mississippi’s 461,000 customers under the bus as a sacrifice to the Economic Development Gods when they exempted the Amazon project from PSC oversight.
Two Data Centers for Mississippi
There are over 10,000 data centers in the United States. But no big ones in Mississippi. That’s about to change – thanks to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and a package of goodies from the Governor and the MS Legislature. AWS will build two hyperscale data centers here. The first one will be in Madison County. AWS will invest $10 billion.
A Tale of Two Years and Two Worlds
Charles Dickens put it well 165 years ago, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity…” This is an apt metaphor for the stock market and the world in 2023 and perhaps for 2024 as well. Last year saw seven magnificent technology stocks promising glorious productivity gains from Artificial Intelligence (AI) lead the S&P 500 to dramatic double-digit returns
And Another One Bites the Dust
Enviva has been in the news lately. Mongabay News reported a company whistleblower (they’re everywhere) says the company’s green claims are fraudulent. The claims also defy common sense. But so do solar plants that supply electricity 25% of the time when it’s needed 24-7-365. Hey, you’re not supposed to ask if green energy makes common sense or economic sense. Just pretend it does.