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Artificial Intelligence & Data Centers

Bessemer residents attend a City Council meeting on July 15 to express opposition to a proposed data center. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Fact-Checking Claims About a Proposed Hyperscale Data Center

By Lee Hedgepeth, Lanier Isom

President Donald Trump displays a signed executive order during the “Winning the AI Race” summit at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium on Wednesday in Washington, D.C. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Trump’s AI Action Plan Waives Federal Environmental Rules in the Development of Data Centers

By Arcelia Martin

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin speaks at the 2025 Iowa GOP Lincoln Dinner on July 17 in Des Moines, Iowa. Credit: KC McGinnis/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Nine Governors Write to Regional Grid Operator PJM, Expressing Frustration Over Governance and Interconnection Delays

By Charles Paullin

Utility workers repair a power line on Feb. 10, 2022, in Ridgefield N.J. Credit: EMAZ/VIEWpress via Getty Images

Are You a Customer of PJM? Its Capacity Auction Will Affect Your Electricity Prices in 2026

By Rambo Talabong

A look inside Google’s New Albany data center in Central Ohio. Credit: Google

Consumers (and a Utility) Get a Win in Ohio, While Data Centers Take the Loss

By Dan Gearino

An aerial view of the xAI data center, called Colossus, in Memphis, Tenn. Credit: Steve Jones, Flight by Southwings for SELC

In South Memphis, Elon Musk’s Colossus Operated Gas Turbines Without Appropriate Permits, Residents and Activists Claim

By Jennifer Ugwa

Bitcoin mining machines are seen at a facility in Houston on Nov. 14, 2022. Credit: Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Bipartisan Cryptocurrency Legislation Will Fuel Further Environmental Destruction, Environmental Advocates Say 

By Phil McKenna

Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin takes questions after announcing regulation cuts last week. Credit: Charles Paullin/Inside Climate News

Virginia Governor Boosts Artificial Intelligence to Fill Jobs, Cut Regulations

By Charles Paullin

The Mount Storm coal-fired power station owned by Dominion Energy is seen in West Virginia on June 30. Credit: Ulysse Bellier/AFP via Getty Images

US Department of Energy Grid Reliability Report Is Unreliable, Virginia Renewable Advocates Say

By Charles Paullin

Diesel fuel contaminates the Inner Harbor on June 5 after Johns Hopkins Hospital reported a contained spill at its East Baltimore facility. Credit: Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu via Getty Images

Off the Books: Maryland’s Clean Energy Push Ignores Backup Generator Pollution

By Aman Azhar

President Donald Trump arrives to speak to guests and investors at the inaugural Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit at Carnegie Mellon University on Tuesday in Pittsburgh. Credit: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

Trump Hails $90 Billion in Corporate Investment to Make Pennsylvania an AI Hub, Fueled by Natural Gas

By Marianne Lavelle, Kiley Bense

The watercress darter, an endangered fish found only in central Alabama, could be put at risk by a proposed data center. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Bessemer, Alabama, Could Face Legal Action Over Environmental Impacts From a ‘Hyperscale’ Data Center

By Lee Hedgepeth

The Rock Mountain Lakes community (foreground) is located adjacent to the proposed data center site (background) in Jefferson County, Ala. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Water Utility Says It Can’t Meet Demand for Alabama Data Center Without ‘Significant Upgrades’

By Lee Hedgepeth

The Blue Jay solar and storage plant in Iola, Texas. Credit: Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images.

What Risks Texas’ Grid Faces

By Arcelia Martin

Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials visit Georgia’s Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant construction site in 2021. Credit: NRC

It Just Got Easier to Build Nuclear Power Plants in Wisconsin

By Carrie Klein

Firefighters battle against a burning apartment complex in Paradise as a late-season wildfire in northern California burns 20,000 acres on Nov. 9, 2018. Credit: Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images

AI Can Help Limit the Spread of Misinformation During Natural Disaster, Study Finds

By Ryan Krugman

Soluna’s Project Dorothy data center in Texas. Credit: Soluna

How a Data Center Company Uses Stranded Renewable Energy

By Arcelia Martin

Brad Kaaber, a representative of the proposed data center developer, speaks to zoning commissioners during a Tuesday meeting in a room of residents opposed to the project. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

An Alabama City Recommends Changing Its Laws to Accommodate One of the Country’s Largest Proposed Data Centers

By Lee Hedgepeth

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