Executive Director · NCEA

Mark P.
Mills

Distinguished senior fellow, author of The Cloud Revolution, and one of America’s leading voices on energy, technology, and infrastructure policy.

Mark P. Mills
200+
Publications
35
Years in Energy
12
Testimonies
4M+
Views
Biography

Mark P. Mills is executive director of the National Center for Energy Analytics (NCEA), a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and a faculty fellow at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering.

He is author of The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and a Roaring 2020s (Encounter Books, 2021). Previously he co-authored The Bottomless Well (Basic Books, 2005) with Peter Huber.

Mills served in the White House Science Office under President Reagan and has testified before Congress multiple times on energy and technology policy. He is a strategic partner in Cottonwood Venture Partners, an energy-tech venture fund.

“The world doesn’t have an energy supply problem — it has an energy permission problem.”

— Congressional Testimony, 2024

Affiliations
Northwestern University
Faculty Fellow, McCormick School of Engineering
Manhattan Institute
Senior Fellow
Forbes.com
Energy & Technology Contributor
White House Science Office
Reagan Administration
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PragerU
Do We Really Need More Oil and Gas?
Selected Work

Publications

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2025
Study
The AI Energy Surge: Quantifying Compute Demand Growth Through 2030
National Center for Energy Analytics
2024
Report
Grid Reliability and the Energy Transition: An Engineering Assessment
NCEA Research Series
2024
Flagship
U.S. Energy Security Index
NCEA — Wernick, Eule. Preface by Mills
2023
Testimony
The Physics of Energy: Why Hydrocarbons Remain Essential
U.S. Senate Committee on Energy
In the Press

Media Appearances

Interview
Why America Needs More Energy, Not Less
Podcast
The Cloud Revolution & Data Center Boom

Mark P. Mills discusses how converging technologies are reshaping global energy demand and infrastructure investment.

· Technology
Featured Book

The Cloud Revolution

How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and a Roaring 2020s. A provocative look at the technological forces reshaping the global economy.

Encounter Books, 2021336 pages

“The world is on the cusp of a boom that will rival anything in history.”

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