Stephen Lacey
Stephen Lacey

Stephen Lacey

Stephen Lacey is the co-founder and executive editor of Latitude Media. He helps shape editorial coverage, live events, and creative partnerships. He’s a veteran journalist, editor, and producer who’s been running news teams and making audio programming about the clean energy transition for nearly two decades.

Stephen Lacey is a contributing writer to Latitude Media.
Maximo, the solar construction robotic companion to AES construction crews
Interview
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DATA + CLOUD
Corporates
AES exec on data center load: 'It's like nothing we’ve ever seen'

Chris Shelton on the “very exciting” expansion of hyperscale data centers — and the ways AES is integrating AI across operations.

Interview
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Corporates
Google’s head of data center energy on the urgency of expanding the grid

Amanda Peterson Corio reflects on how chronic underinvestment in the power sector is making data center decarbonization harder.

Commentary
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Policy
America’s energy transition is about to get weird

It’s going to look like Elon Musk driving a Tesla, wearing a MAGA hat.

Analysis
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Policy
U.S. market
With a Trump win, what happens next for clean energy?

Unpacking three of the major questions on the minds of experts in the wake of Trump’s victory

News
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Policy
U.S. market
America unleashes Trump, complicating the US energy transition

Elon Musk, once a clean energy hero, played a central role in getting Trump back into the White House.

A semiconductor megafactory under construction in Arizona
Commentary
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Policy
Gov funding
An optimistic view of clean energy post-election

There are plenty of acute threats for the industry. But the IRA has changed the federal policy environment.

News
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AI
Grid edge
An overlooked efficiency solution in the AI race: general-purpose computing

Efficient Computer believes hyper-specialization of GPUs has missed a critical opportunity for distributed intelligence – until now.

Interview
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AI
DATA + CLOUD
Why a Google data center architect thinks AI energy fears are overblown

Urs Hölzle thinks the worst-case scenarios are not based in reality.

Analysis
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AI
Grid edge
Tapestry and AES map how ‘autonomous AI agents’ will shape a digital grid

How would it work? AES’ own virtualization and automation efforts offer some clues.

Form's factory in West Virginia
News
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STORAGE
VC
Form Energy brings in more cash as it prepares for mass battery deployment

The long-duration energy storage company just closed a $405 million Series F.

Interview
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AI
Are we thinking about the data center energy problem in the right ways?

Peter Freed, the former director of energy strategy at Meta, on how he views the decarbonization challenge for data centers in the AI era.

Podcast
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Grid edge
The top stories of 2024 so far: AI, grid constraints, geothermal, and more

On our last episode of The Carbon Copy, we bring back old friends to discuss some leading storylines in clean energy deployment.

Podcast
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Grid edge
U.S. market
Avoiding mistakes from the first generation of smart meters

As utilities prepare to replace their smart meters, are they investing in the right technology?

Podcast
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geothermal
VC
Investor Andrew Beebe talks AI-fueled geothermal and ‘the edge of the possible’

Beebe thinks AI will unlock more clean, firm power — while also sparking a new era of generative science.

A macro view on the state of climate tech

We have the solutions to slash 90% of emissions. Which tech is ready to scale, and which tech is behind schedule?