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Here is your morning brief for Friday, January 16th. I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal.

The Trump administration is set to propose that America's largest grid operator, PJM,

hold an emergency auction in which tech companies would bid on 15-year contracts for new power plants.

That would effectively formalize a bring-your-own power approach to data center

construction that's already taken hold across much of the U.S. and which the administration

has begun to embrace. In October, Energy Secretary Chris Wright instructed the Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission to draft rules giving it oversight of how giant data centers connect to the grid, a process

typically overseen by states.

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Karina Machado has presented President Trump with her Nobel

Peace Prize. The gesture came during a visit to the White House yesterday, but Machado emerged

with no public backing from Trump. Instead,

the Trump administration has said it would continue to work with Venezuela's acting president

Delci Rodriguez, who was Nicholas Maduro's deputy. Trump celebrated the prize on social media,

but the Nobel Committee has previously clarified that the award can't be transferred to another person.

And Norway's Equinor has been given the green light to resume work on its massive

empire win project off of Long Island. A federal judge ruled that harm to the company

stemming from a construction halt ordered by the Trump administration outweighed national

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