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2.05.26
Wilson Sonsini Advises Lunar Energy on $232 Million in Financings
On February 4, 2026, Lunar Energy, the leader in integrated home battery systems and Virtual Power Plant software, announced it raised $102 million in an oversubscribed Series D round led by B Capital and Prelude Ventures. This round follows a previously unannounced Series C financing of $130 million led by Activate Capital, resulting in a total of $232 million in new funding. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati advised Lunar Energy on these financing transactions.
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10.30.25
Wilson Sonsini Lawyers Matt Christiansen and Nic Gladd Quoted by New Project Media on Department of Energy Grid Directive
Energy Secretary Chris Wright’s recent order instructs the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to assert federal jurisdiction over certain large-load interconnections to the power grid in an effort to expedite the interconnection of data centers.
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8.19.25
Wilson Sonsini Advises Aalo Atomics on $100 Million Series B
On August 19, 2025, Aalo Atomics, a nuclear engineering company created to make reactor deployment highly predictable and economical, announced a $100 million Series B. Led by Valor Equity Partners, the financing round also saw participation from 50Y, Alumni Ventures, Crescent Enterprises, Crosscut, Fine Structure Ventures, Gaingels, Harpoon Ventures, Hitachi Ventures, Kindred Ventures, MCJ, NRG Energy, Nucleation Capital, Perpetual VC, Tishman Speyer, and Vamos Ventures. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati advised Aalo Atomics on the transaction.
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8.06.25
Wilson Sonsini Advises Armada on $131 Million Strategic Funding Round
On July 24, 2025, edge computing company Armada announced a $131 million strategic funding round with new investors, including Pinegrove, Veriten, and Glade Brook, as well as participation from existing investors, including Founders Fund, Lux Capital, Shield Capital, 8090 Industries, M12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund), Overmatch, Silent Ventures, Felicis, and Marlinspike. The latest investment round coincides with Armada’s launch of Leviathan, a first-of-its-kind ruggedized modular data center solution designed for fast, flexible deployment, enabling megawatt-scale computing power in the world's most contested and communications-challenged areas. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati advised Armada on the transaction.
Alerts
7.25.25
White House Releases America’s AI Action Plan
On July 23, 2025, the White House announced its long-awaited comprehensive AI Action Plan titled “Winning the AI Race: America’s AI Action Plan” (the Plan). The Plan is aimed at positioning the U.S. as the global leader in AI and is a follow up to President Donald Trump’s January 23, 2025, Executive Order on “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence,” which revoked the Biden Administration’s prior AI Executive Order (Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence). The AI Action Plan contains more than 90 policy actions related to three key pillars: 1) Accelerating AI Innovation, 2) Building American AI Infrastructure, and 3) Leading in International AI Diplomacy and Security. This alert touches on all three pillars with a focus on the first, which outlines the Trump Administration’s strategic vision and policy recommendations to drive innovation in the American AI sector.
News Articles
7.22.25
Matt Christiansen and Nic Gladd Quoted in Law360 on Major Energy Decisions of 2025
Wilson Sonsini attorneys Matt Christiansen and Nic Gladd were quoted in a recent Law360 article highlighting key Supreme Court rulings that have the potential to reshape federal environmental reviews and the regulatory landscape for energy projects.
News Articles
7.03.25
Navigating the Future of Energy: Nic Gladd Talks AI Infrastructure and Policy with Latitude Magazine
Nic Gladd, a partner in Wilson Sonsini’s energy and climate solutions practice, recently joined Latitude Media editor Lisa Martine Jenkins for a conversation at Transition AI 2025. Their discussion focused on the widening gap between the surging demand for AI infrastructure and the pace of energy project development, which is slowed by regulatory bottlenecks.
News Articles
3.14.25
Nic Gladd Quoted in RTO Insider's "Data Centers’ Need for Speed Clashing with Plodding Pace of Regulation"
RTO Insider recently published an article summarizing key points from the Energy Bar Association's Northeast Chapter Winter Summit where former FERC Commissioner Allison Clements emphasized the urgent need for regulatory reforms in the power industry to support the rapid expansion of data centers and artificial intelligence. Ms. Clements pointed out that despite high demand forecasts, the slow regulatory process could impede investment decisions.
Bylined Articles
1.27.25
Todd Glass Authors Article in Utility Dive: "Achieving AI Dominance Through Competitive Power Markets"
Utility Dive recently published an opinion article by Wilson Sonsini energy and climate and solutions partner Todd Glass, titled "Achieving AI Dominance Through Competitive Power Markets." The article discusses how integrating AI in to the global economy is the next transformative technological revolution. For the U.S. to win this AI race, Todd says, we have to solve the structural bottleneck from utilities and regulators who operate out of sync with the dynamically emerging needs of AI innovators. Todd writes that the “solution lies in allowing data centers directly into the competitive markets—a lightly regulated market superstructure that gives the U.S. a strategic advantage over our international competitors. Harnessing the competitive forces of market-based regulation is the only way to regulate with the speed and flexibility required to cultivate an increasingly high-tech, data-driven economy."
Alerts
1.16.25
Treasury and IRS Release Final Regulations for Tech-Neutral Clean Electricity Production and Investment Tax Credits
On January 7, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Final Regulations (the Final Regulations) regarding clean electricity production tax credits and clean electricity investment tax credits under Sections 45Y (Tech-Neutral PTC) and 48E (Tech-Neutral ITC and, collectively, the Tech-Neutral Credits) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the Code). The Final Regulations provide rules for determining greenhouse gas emissions rates resulting from the production of electricity, petitioning for provisional emissions rates, and determining eligibility for the Tech-Neutral Credits in various circumstances. The Final Regulations update proposed regulations published on June 3, 2024 (the Proposed Regulations) discussed in our previous white paper here.
Client Highlights
12.05.24
Wilson Sonsini Advises Anthropic in Connection with Collaboration with Amazon
On November 22, 2024, Anthropic announced an expansion of their previously announced collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), deepening their partnership to develop and deploy advanced AI systems. This expanded partnership includes a new $4 billion investment from Amazon and establishes AWS as their primary cloud and training partner. This will bring Amazon's total investment in Anthropic to $8 billion, while maintaining their position as a minority investor. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati represented Anthropic in the commercial aspects of the transaction.
Together with AWS, Anthropic is laying the technological foundation—from silicon to software—that will power the next generation of AI research and development. By combining Anthropic’s expertise in frontier AI systems with AWS’s world-class infrastructure, the partnership is building a secure, enterprise-ready platform that gives organizations of all sizes access to the forefront of AI technology.
The Wilson Sonsini team was led by technology transactions attorneys Scott McKinney, Barath Chari, Shivang Patel, Stefan Geirhofer, and Brittany Von Rueden.
For more information, please see Anthropic’s press release.
Together with AWS, Anthropic is laying the technological foundation—from silicon to software—that will power the next generation of AI research and development. By combining Anthropic’s expertise in frontier AI systems with AWS’s world-class infrastructure, the partnership is building a secure, enterprise-ready platform that gives organizations of all sizes access to the forefront of AI technology.
The Wilson Sonsini team was led by technology transactions attorneys Scott McKinney, Barath Chari, Shivang Patel, Stefan Geirhofer, and Brittany Von Rueden.
For more information, please see Anthropic’s press release.
Client Highlights
10.16.24
Wilson Sonsini Advises Kairos Power on Agreement with Google for 500MW of Clean Energy
On October 14, 2024, Kairos Power and Google announced they have signed a Master Plant Development Agreement, creating a path to deploy a U.S. fleet of advanced nuclear power projects totaling 500 MW by 2035. Under the agreement, Kairos Power will develop, construct, and operate a series of advanced reactor plants and sell energy, ancillary services, and environmental attributes to Google under Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs). Plants will be sited in relevant service territories to supply clean electricity to Google data centers, with the first deployment by 2030 to support Google’s 24/7 carbon-free energy and net zero goals.