064 - The Grid, Data Centers, and the New Energy Landman with Jigar Shah
The energy business you trained for keeps changing under your feet. Oil and gas, renewables, and now data centers used to be separate worlds. Today they're colliding into one grid, and the land professional sits right in the middle of it.
Jigar Shah, former head of the DOE Loan Programs Office, joins Brent and Natalie for a state-of-the-union on where energy actually stands in 2026. Solar and batteries are carrying the load, data centers are learning to play nice, and right-of-way fights are getting solved in ways nobody expected.
If you're working land where power, water, and infrastructure…
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