For years, energy investors flocked to anything labeled “green” or “clean”, with governments making it clear that there is only one energy policy path forward, and that is the green, clean one. That ended in 2025 with the rise of AI, which caused a surge in energy demand—for the first time in decades. Energy demand in the organization for Economic Cooperation and Development had been growing at a modest 1% for the three decades between 1990 and 2020, Global Corporate Venturing author Fernando Moncada Rivera noted this…