Texas Edition

Rick Perry’s AI-Energy Startup Fermi Faces C-Suite Drama After 72% Selloff

Ex-governor is on board that ousted CEO — who now wants directors gone
Toby Neugebauer (center right) and Rick Perry (to his right) in happier times after Fermi’s IPO.Photographer: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg

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AI energy startup Fermi has a big-name co-founder in former Texas Governor Rick Perry and an ambitious goal to build the world’s largest private power grid for a data-center campus. The drama around the company these days is also Texas-sized.