Microsoft just added 260 MW of solar capacity across Texas and North Carolina as the company continues expanding the infrastructure behind its growing AI ambitions. The new utility-scale projects, delivered by MN8 Energy, highlight how rapidly rising datacenter power demand is reshaping the energy industry.
People in southeast New Mexico are concerned about a data center that will add 10 million tons of carbon emissions to the air.
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INDIANAPOLIS — NIPSCO GenCo recently signed a 12-year contract with Halldor Energy Company to power new Google (Michigan City) and Amazon data centers with its Merom coal-fired power plant. The Michigan City data center would be Google’s first in the country to contract for a coal plant’s capacity, to Sierra Club knowledge– ... [continued]
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Opposition to AI and the enormous data centers it will need in the future is growing in the US, as people begin to see the risks.
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I have been seeing LinkedIn posts about Panthalassa’s wave-powered AI data-center concept recently, and the reaction they’ve been getting is familiar. Big funding round. AI power bottleneck. Ocean energy. No grid connection. No land constraint. Autonomous machines. A new category. It had all the ingredients of a story built to ... [continued]
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Commercial electricity sales in Virginia increased by nearly 30.0 million megawatthours (MWh) between 2019 and 2025, much faster growth than in any other state except Texas, a much larger state, according to our Annual Electric Power Industry Report. The growth in sales of electricity in Virginia is largely driven by a concentration ... [continued]
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Project is expected to double Utah’s power demand, guzzle scarce water resources. Salt Lake City — Box Elder County Commissioners voted on Monday to approve the Stratos Data Center, a massive project set to become one of the largest in the country. The facility will be built in the Great ... [continued]
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Inside the First Data Center–Grid Simulator Built To Test the Promising New Technology As demand for data centers continues to rise, many center operators, utilities, and American communities are asking: Can the U.S. power grid handle these energy elephants? The answer depends on just how many elephants the country adopts. ... [continued]
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If you were waiting for Apple’s M5 Mac Studio and its OLED MacBook Pro to be released this summer, you might have to wait a little longer. Per AppleInsider and Bloomberg, while Apple has so far weathered the global RAM and SSD shortages pretty well, it has raised some prices and ceased selling certain Mac […]
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MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin — New analyses have found that Wisconsinites across the state and across political affiliations strongly dislike data data centers, citing concerns around affordability, energy and water. Sierra Club Wisconsin, the WEBB, Moms Clear Air Force, and Healthy Climate Wisconsin examined comments from two Public Service Commission (PSC) cases: WEC’s large ... [continued]
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The debate over who should pay to power data centers is taking center stage all across America, from Virginia to Montana.
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A Câmara dos Deputados aprovou o Projeto de Lei 278/26, que institui o Regime Especial de Tributação para Serviços de Datacenter (Redata), com o objetivo de estimular a instalação de centros de processamento e armazenamento de dados no Brasil. A proposta segue agora para o Senado, mas enfrenta um impasse político e jurídico após a […]
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