Isabelle Bousquet

Welcome to Tech News Briefing.

It's Tuesday, January 13th.

I'm Isabelle Bousquet for The Wall Street Journal.

The Trump administration has slashed subsidies for solar and renewable energy.

But in many segments of the market, solar deals are persisting.

We're shedding light on why.

Then, AI is everywhere these days, including recycling plants.

It turns out some new tech is pretty good at sorting through streams of garbage.

We'll dive into how it works and the valuable treasures it's plucking out of the trash.

But first, solar projects have been under fire recently.

The Trump administration has slashed incentives for renewable power and called the sun and wind-powered energy the scam of the century.

But despite that, the sun is still shining on some solar deals.

Some companies are still betting on solar energy, which can sometimes be faster and cheaper to get up and running than natural gas sites.

What does it mean for where the renewables industry is headed?

WSJ sustainability reporter Clara Hudson joins us now to break it down.

So what kinds of companies and industries are investing in renewable energy and making these deals?

So what kinds of companies and industries are investing in renewable energy and making these deals?

So you talk about the tech industry, and I'm curious, how big a role is the AI boom and the need to secure energy for data centers playing and driving some of these business to solar companies?

That is really interesting.

So it seems like there's a lot of business that is happening here.