Maeve Allsup
Maeve Allsup is Latitude Media’s founding reporter. She was previously a tech reporter at Morning Brew, where she covered tech policy and regulation, as well as the EV industry. Earlier in her career she spent several years as a legal reporter, covering California’s courts for Bloomberg Industries, where she broke news about Activision Blizzard, Google, Uber, and others.
Before moving to California, Maeve lived in Santiago, Chile for several years where she created content for an international education company and worked as a freelance journalist.
Maeve studied International Relations at American University in Washington, D.C., where she specialized in environmental policy and conflict resolution. She is based in San Francisco.
Get in touch with Maeve at maeve@latitudemedia.com, or on Signal at @mallsup.1494.
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Planted is pitching solar for the data center era
The thesis is simple: The solar sector must get faster and more efficient to play a meaningful role in speed to power.
Maeve AllsupJun 5, 2026 -
Trump is using taxpayer money for coal to power AI
Combining funds from the Defense Production Act and 2021's infrastructure law, the $700 million pot will fund new coal plants and an export terminal.
Maeve AllsupJun 4, 2026 -
Waymo joins the second-life EV battery fray
Battery recycler B2U will repurpose the autonomous EV company’s battery packs for grid storage.
Maeve AllsupJun 4, 2026 -
How the ratepayer protection pledge became a transmission hurdle in PJM
Transmission projects approved for rate-basing before the AI boom are getting caught up in the debate over cost allocation for data centers.
Maeve AllsupJun 2, 2026 -
Google is Voltus’s first ‘bring-your-own-capacity’ customer
The VPP provider will procure up to 100 MW of distributed flexible capacity for data centers in PJM.
Maeve AllsupJun 2, 2026 -
Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon back new data center tech accelerator
The Data Center Innovation Initiative is a membership-based effort to deploy and share emerging tech learnings across hyperscalers.
Maeve AllsupMay 27, 2026 -
The Texas Energy Fund’s first projects are coming online
But the program’s path forward amid the AI boom is still uncertain.
Maeve AllsupMay 26, 2026 -
Northvolt’s failed Swedish battery factory will now host a data center
Lyten's unique approach to acquiring battery assets is relying on an influx of cash from the AI boom.
Maeve AllsupMay 22, 2026 -
Electric Era is turning its EV-charging tech into a data center power play
The company will own and operate behind-the-meter batteries to provide more power during peak workloads at edge data centers.
Maeve AllsupMay 21, 2026 -
Can California leverage Virginia’s grid utilization playbook?
Pushing the state’s utilities to change their default approach of building new infrastructure is an uphill battle.
Maeve AllsupMay 19, 2026
