"Trump officials are heralding a potential new coal plant in Alaska, but the project faces mounting opposition and tricky data center politics."
"President Donald Trump is gunning to put coal back on the map with the nation’s first coal-fired power plant in more than a decade in Alaska.
Problem is, a planned mine needed to feed the proposed 1.25-gigawatt Terra Energy Center doesn’t yet exist. What’s more, the fate of the project hinges on an uncertain AI build-out and shifting political winds, and is facing mounting concerns about the effect of development in the state’s pristine Susitna Valley.
“For the U.S. coal industry, the win is this will be the first new coal plant in over a decade,” said Andy Blumenfeld, an analyst who tracks coal markets at the consulting company McCloskey by OPIS. “But it depends a lot on politics and that can be fleeting.”"
