The AI boom can give rooftop solar a new pitch

Rooftop solar has often been sold as a way of going off-grid. Facing a crisis, it needs a new pitch: Helping that same grid cope with the demands of the artificial intelligence boom.

Federal credits for rooftop solar are poised on a knife edge in the giant tax bill wending its way through Congress. Current Senate language looks set to chop them to zero in short order, although one Senator indicated this week that some unspecified relief may yet surface in future drafts. Absent a significant revision, that the solar-allergic House majority could live…