The Green New Deal era of politics is over. Could it come back at some point? Sure. But right now, it's dead as a doorknob, and there's no coming back for the near future. If you're a Democrat, it's the end of decades of scaremongering over the future. The problem is simple, though: the future is here, and it demands more energy. 

The clues that this was the case have been legion for years. But the most prominent example came just this week from one of America's most iconic car brands: Ford. The company that created the Model-T and helped advance modern America had tried to advance the electric vehicle market with EV Mustangs and F-150s. 

None of those ideas worked. Americans didn't want them, didn't buy them, and the low demand for those products collapsed. Ford is calling it a day on an EV future, once advanced by Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Just a few years ago, with Biden, there were bold declarations of whole EV fleets by the end of the decade. 

Those dreams are dead.

Ford said it would record a $19.5 billion special charge to its business, including a massive $8.5 billion write-down of electric vehicle assets alone. The company is pivoting back to gas and hybrid engines. Put another way, they're selling what customers are buying, while ignoring the mandates from Washington, D.C.

Speaking of mandates, it's not just the United States that has them. Europe has long crowed about its green energy policies and how advanced it is in green tech. This is despite being utterly beholden to Russian energy while pumping out bizarre stories to Americans of people dying in droves every year due to heat and cold, because Europe is a continent without HVAC systems. 

The European Union announced this week that it was dropping its effective ban on combustion engine cars starting in 2035. The so-called economic union portion of the group came under heavy pressure from automakers, who pointed out the obvious: no one wants EVs, even the moral-preening Europeans. 

The story here is clear: all the mandates and orders issued by Biden, starting in 2020, are being reversed. And it's not just a quick turn of the pen from Trump that's triggering this: we're witnessing a complete economic reversal. 

And that's because of another reason: a much more important technology is taking center stage, and it needs one thing: energy - and a lot of it.

Artificial Intelligence is exploding in development and use across the United States, as it is locked in a competition with China over the technology. Europe can neither compete in the technology race nor in the use of AI. A continent that can't run simple HVAC systems can't be expected to run the full data centers necessary to power the AI revolution. 

That's where we are. Senate Democrats, led by Elizabeth Warren, are pressuring tech giants on data center energy use, focusing on electricity bills. In brief, to power these data centers, which are the primary engine underlying these massive Large Language Models, they require a lot of energy to run.

After being flat for most of the decade from 2010-2022, electricity costs are starting to spike. The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis has tracked the data over time and found a sharp upward tick beginning in 2022, when OpenAI's ChatGPT really took off. 

The AI revolution is real, and it is driving up electricity costs nationwide. For electric vehicle manufacturers, charging your car at home or at quick charging stations was seen as a cheaper alternative to gas stations. But that reality is quickly reversing itself as electricity costs soar and people demand relief. 

Even data centers themselves are becoming more controversial, with towns in Virginia and New Jersey fighting back. Whatever the decision ends up being, the reality is this: America is rapidly advancing the AI revolution, and what it needs more than anything, besides computer chips, is cheap electricity. 

That's why you see so many stories of nuclear plants roaring back to life. And it's why China is rapidly building so many coal plants, expanding its lead as the most pollution-heavy country on the planet by a massive mile. 

The Green New Deal met the future and lost that fight hard. And we know that because energy usage is exploding upward, not diminishing. Environmentalists have been talking for the last 30 years about how we needed to scale back society to "save the planet." 

Most of these jeremiads were nothing more than Luddites with a different cover for their arguments. Technological advancement is here, and it's not slowing down. That's why Bill Gates is no longer backing the movement, and why Democrats are focusing more on your utilities than your carbon footprint.

What's astounding is how fast the movement died. ChatGPT exploded on the scene in 2022. We're exiting 2025, and there's been a wholesale shift away from everything the movement represented. 

If you were to time-travel and go back to the peak woke moments of 2020, and tell everyone: this is going to end quickly, and one technology will change it all, no one would have believed you.

Yet, here we are—another set of failed predictions from Democratic Socialists.