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The Rare Earth Shopping Spree

On aluminum smelting, Korean nuclear, and a geoengineering database

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White Out

On deep-sea mining, New York nuclear, and kestrel symbiosis

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Hot Stocks

On Trump’s clawed-back loans, California’s power surge, and ‘Coalie’

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Hot Rocks

On Trump’s Greenland thaw, Europe’s green steel win, and Tesla’s mission

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Lithium mining.

Of Mines and Men

On New Jersey’s rate freeze, ‘global water bankruptcy,’ and Japan’s nuclear restarts

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Solar panels.

Sunny Forecast

On Greenland jockeying, Brazilian rare earth, and atomic British sea power

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Empire Strikes Back

On a Trump’s PJM push, Ford-BYD tie-up, and the Mongolian atom

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Current conditions: New Orleans is expecting light rain with temperatures climbing near 90 degrees Fahrenheit as the city marks the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina • Torrential rains could dump anywhere from 8 to 12 inches on the Mississippi Valley and the Ozarks • Japan is sweltering in temperatures as high as 104 degrees.

THE TOP FIVE

1. Trump will force tech companies to pay for new power in PJM

President Donald Trump struck a deal with the governors of Northeast states such as Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania to direct the nation’s largest grid operator to hold an emergency power auction that will force technology giants to pay for the construction of new power plants, according to Bloomberg. The effort, set to be announced Friday, will urge PJM Interconnection to hold a reliability power auction giving tech companies and data center hyperscalers the chance to bid on 15-year contracts for new electricity generation, according to Bloomberg. If it works according to plan, Bloomberg notes, “it could be mammoth in scale, delivering contracts that would support the construction of some $15 billion worth of new power plants.”

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Cowboy Beepboop

On Heatmap's annual survey, Trump’s wind ‘spillover,’ and Microsoft’s soil deal

A data center.
<p>Heatmap Illustration/Crusoe</p>

Current conditions: A polar vortex is sweeping frigid air back into the Northeast and bringing up to 6 inches of snow to northern parts of New England • Temperatures in the Southeast are set to plunge 25 degrees Fahrenheit below last week’s averages, with highs below freezing in Atlanta • Temperatures in the Nigerian capital of Abuja, meanwhile, are nearing 100 degrees.

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1. Heatmap’s big annual survey is out

A chart from the latest survey. Heatmap Pro

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