Mark Mills

Mark P. Mills is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a faculty fellow at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. He is also a strategic partner with Montrose Lane (an energy-tech venture fund). Previously, Mills cofounded Digital Power Capital, a boutique venture fund, and was chairman and CTO of ICx Technologies, helping take it public in 2007. Mills is author of the book The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and a Roaring 2020s (Encounter Books, 2021), and host of the new podcast The Last Optimist.

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Mar 20, 2025

The Green Energy Transition Isn't 'Inevitable,' It's Impossible

Despite a tenacious narrative, history shows the Green New Deal vision is not inevitable—it’s impossible.
Jan 31, 2025

DeepSeek's Energy Advance Signals More Energy Usage, Not Less

More efficient AI means we need more power, not less.
Jan 25, 2025

The Only “Energy Emergency” Is the One Joe Biden Created

Trump’s executive order stresses the urgency of undoing his predecessor’s disastrous “whole of government” climate policy.