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🟡 Semafor Energy: Ukraine’s Davos anxiety
Beleaguered Ukrainian energy officials in Davos are running short of money and fear being overlooked.
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EIA reveals illegal logging operation in Brazil
The operation covered 5,000 hectares of pristine forest in Indigenous Territory in Brazil’s Pará state, the capital of COP30 host Belém.
Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters
US data center load set to double by 2028, report finds
By 2028, Texas alone is projected to exceed 40GW of capacity, nearly 30% of the US total, according to Bloom Energy.
Audrey Richardson/File Photo/Reuters
Data center developers pull back from real estate
David Steinbach, chief investment officer of one of the top global real estate investment firms, spoke to Semafor.
Amazon data center. Noah Berger for AWS/Reuters.
Ukraine’s Davos anxiety
US President Donald Trump’s text-message threat to Norway’s prime minister set an ominous tone for the fate of multilateralism.
Denis Balibouse/Reuters
Greenland is pushing Ukraine off the agenda
Beleaguered Ukrainian energy officials in Davos are running short of money and fear being overlooked.
Pavlo Palamarchuk/Reuters
Venezuela eases oil investment laws under US pressure
Interim President Delcy Rodríguez said she would reform the country’s hydrocarbon laws to ease foreign investment.
The Nave Photon carrying crude oil from Venezuela. Antranik Tavitian/Reuters.
Energy dominance goes to Davos
Donald Trump’s energy dominance agenda is already tilting the balance of power in the market.
UK secures support for offshore wind in record auction
British authorities granted contracts expected to produce 8.4 GW of energy, enough to power roughly 12 million homes.
US clean energy investors see bull case for renewables
CleanCapital said this week it had secured a $300 million financing package that will help it increase its capacity 50% in the next 12 months.
US emissions rise in 2025 after two-year decline
The main drivers of the emissions increases were commercial buildings and the power sector, according to estimates by the Rhodium Group, a research firm.
Orsted wins ruling to resume wind project halted by Trump
The project was 90% complete before the Interior Department ordered a pause on several offshore wind projects last month.
Electric grid transformer delays show no sign of easing
The CEO of the top global manufacturer of the equipment spoke to Semafor.
Winners and losers emerge in Venezuela
ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods called Venezuela “uninvestable,” a comment which Trump later said left him “inclined to keep Exxon out”
Japan begins trial to explore mining deep-sea rare earths
The trial comes as Japan and the West move to diversify the supply and refining of rare earths away from China.
US says it will ease sanctions on Venezuelan oil
The US Treasury Secretary’s remarks come as the US presses major oil companies to ramp up investments in the country.
Mining giants Glencore, Rio Tinto revive merger talks
The proposed merger would create the world’s largest mining company as global demand surges for metals and minerals.
Trump media company announces plans for first fusion power plant
The US president’s social media company said that construction of the country’s first fusion power plant will begin in 2026.
Global climate tech investment grows in 2025
Total investment hit $40.5 billion, according to a new analysis from Sightline Climate.