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Bessemer City Council members listen as residents express their concerns about a proposed hyperscale data center during a July meeting. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Despite Stiff Opposition, an Alabama City Changes Its Laws to Accommodate Data Centers

By Lanier Isom

Students walk through the University of Michigan campus on April 3 in Ann Arbor, Mich. Credit: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images

Los Alamos and University of Michigan Want to Build a National Security ‘Data Center’ in Ypsilanti. Residents and Local Officials See Few Benefits.

By Tom Perkins

Workers install solar panels at the Ningguoyun Lingwu 1 million kilowatt photovoltaic project in the desert of China’s northern Ningxia region on April 14. Credit: STR/AFP via Getty Images

Global Renewable Power Capacity Expected to More than Double by 2030

By Kiley Bense

Baysi Vasquez’s daughter, Ivanna, stands in front of their home where heat pumps were installed. “All farmworkers deserve the right to affordable air conditioning,” she said. Credit: Twilight Greenaway/Inside Climate News

Farmworkers in the Hottest Part of California Find State Funds to Cool Their Homes and Save on Energy

By Twilight Greenaway

ComEd has begun testing bidirectional chargers with three school districts in northern Illinois. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Illinois Utility Pilots Vehicle-to-Grid Program With Electric School Buses

By Sarah Mattalian

Duke Energy plans to apply for a license extension for its nuclear plants, including Shearon Harris in southern Wake County. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

In Its New Carbon Plan, Duke Energy Gambles on Coal as a Shorter-Term Fix for Powering Data Centers

By Lisa Sorg

The construction site of the COL5 data center is seen on July 24 in Lewis Center, Ohio. Credit: Eli Hiller/The Washington Post via Getty Images

EPA Moves to Prioritize Review of New Chemicals for Data Centers

By Tom Perkins

EV batteries connected to chargers are a potentially vast resource that could be utilized by the grid. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

Vehicle-to-Grid Power Is Becoming a Reality, But Why Isn’t Progress Faster?

By Dan Gearino

Gov. JB Pritzker speaks at the groundbreaking of the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park on Tuesday in Chicago. Credit: Keerti Gopal/Inside Climate News

As Chicago Quantum Campus Breaks Ground, Residents Call for Community Benefits

By Keerti Gopal

Demonstrators gather to protest against federal cuts to scientific research outside the headquarters of NOAA on March 3 in Silver Spring, Md. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Despite the Trump Administration’s Best Efforts to Suppress It, Climate Science Is Alive and Well Online

By Bob Berwyn

Transmission lines stand in front of Dominion Energy’s Chesterfield Power Station in Chesterfield, Va. Credit: Charles Paullin/Inside Climate News

Virginia Could Show How to Manage Data Center Growth. So Far, It’s a Case Study in Stalling Legislation

By Deep Vakil, Charles Paullin

A coal mine operates on leased public land in Colorado. Credit: BLM Colorado

Citing ‘AI Arms Race,’ Trump Administration Announces Efforts to Rekindle US Coal Industry

By Jake Bolster

A digitally rendered image of Terranova’s robot, called the Atlas 3. Credit: Courtesy of Terranova

Can an AI-Guided Robot Help a California City Resist Sea Level Rise and Sequester Carbon?

By Jennifer Ugwa

The site of the proposed Bessemer data center is currently a nearly 700-acre wooded plot. Construction would require the clearcutting of more than 100 acres. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Citing Climate Crisis, NAACP Expresses Opposition to Massive Alabama Data Center

By Lee Hedgepeth

Southern California Edison technicians attach power lines to a utility pole on July 13 in Culver City, Calif. Credit: Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty Images

Which States Are Getting Hit Hardest by Electricity Price Increases?

By Dan Gearino

A data center’s liquid cooling system. Credit: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/The Washington Post via Getty Images

How Much Water and Energy do Data Centers Consume? A New Jersey Bill Demands Answers.

By Rambo Talabong

An AI-generated humpback whale (left) is seen next to an actual photo of a humpback whale. This hyperrealistic duplicate shows how far generative AI has come, experts say. Credit: Duke MaRRS Lab

Could These ‘Deepfake’ Whales Aid Conservation Efforts?

By Kiley Price

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro speaks in front of the Keystone Trade Center during a press conference on Aug. 7 in Falls Township, Pa.

Citing the Need for ‘Significant Reform,’ Pennsylvania’s Governor Threatens to Pull the State Out of the Region’s Power Grid

By Kiley Bense, Aman Azhar, Charles Paullin, Dan Gearino, Rambo Talabong

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