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Inside Google’s data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Credit: Google

Google’s Response to an Iowa County’s New Data Center Requirements? Annex the Land.

By Anika Jane Beamer

President Donald Trump holds an image showing the size of a proposed Meta data center during a cabinet meeting at the White House on Aug. 26, 2025. Credit: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Few Details on Trump’s Plan for Self-Powered Data Centers

By Charles Paullin

Construction of an Amazon Web Services data center in Salem Township, Pa., on Oct. 10, 2025. Credit: Jason Ardan/Citizens’ Voice via Getty Images

Grassroots Resistance to Data Centers Rises in Pennsylvania

By Jon Hurdle

Morgan Harper, a community organizer and former U.S. Senate candidate, speaks at a protest in January outside the offices of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio in Columbus, urging officials to reject a rate increase from the local utility. Credit: George Shillcock/WOSU

Why Electricity Bills Are So High—and How the Blowback Could Hit Trump

By Dan Gearino, Marianne Lavelle

A rendering of the QTS data center currently under construction in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Credit: QTS

Facing Its Third Data Center, an Iowa County Rolls Out Extensive Zoning Rules

By Anika Jane Beamer

Farmers use a self-driving tractor to sow wheat on a farm in Zhangye, China. Credit: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images

The Farming Industry Has Embraced ‘Precision Agriculture’ and AI, but Critics Question Its Environmental Benefits

By Georgina Gustin

CoreWeave was awarded a $250 million tax break for its 392,600-square-foot data center under construction in Kenilworth, N.J. Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

Amid Affordability Crisis, New Jersey Hands $250 Million Tax Break to Data Center

By Rambo Talabong

Substations and transformers are seen at a Digital Realty data center in Ashburn, Va., on Nov. 12, 2025. Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

Virginia Senate Proposes to End Data Center Tax Exemption in January

By Charles Paullin

An electric school bus is parked at Coral Reef High School in Richmond Heights, Fla. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

EPA’s Clean School Bus ‘Revamp’ Means Less Support for EVs

By Marianne Lavelle

Contractors install solar panels on the roof of a department store in Hamilton Township, N.J. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

New Jersey Unions Create a Coalition Focused on Decreasing Energy Costs and Creating Solar Jobs

By Raeanne Raccagno

The coal-fired Gavin Power Plant in Cheshire, Ohio. Credit: Stephanie Keith/Getty Images

A Perplexing Ohio Bill Would Ban Wind, Solar … and Coal?

By Dan Gearino

Jen Walling, chief executive officer of the Illinois Environmental Council, spoke in support of the POWER Act at a press conference in Chicago on Feb. 11. Credit: Keerti Gopal/Inside Climate News

Could a New Illinois Bill Be a Blueprint for Curbing Data Centers’ Climate Impacts?

By Keerti Gopal

An aerial view of data centers in Ashburn, Va. Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

Virginia House Passes Data Center Tax Exemption, With Conditions

By Charles Paullin

Plug-in solar panels hang from a balcony in Stralsund, Germany. Credit: Stefan Sauer/picture alliance via Getty Images

New England Lawmakers Weigh Plug-in Solar as Europe’s Model Spreads

By Ryan Krugman

B2U Storage Solutions repurposes electric vehicles batteries which have reached the end of their automative lives to provide power to the grid. Credit: Arcelia Martin/Inside Climate News

Retired EV Batteries Scored a New Gig: Bolstering Texas’ Grid

By Arcelia Martin

An aerial view of the Sabey Data Center in Round Rock, Texas. Credit: Aaron E. Martinez/The Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images

Texas to Study ‘Batch Zero’ of Data Centers by Late Summer

By Arcelia Martin

Employees work on photovoltaic cell modules used in solar panels at a factory in Lianyungang, China. Credit: AFP via Getty Images

China Is Leaving America in the Dust on Clean Energy

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

An aerial view of a 33-megawatt data center in Vernon, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

‘The Sky Isn’t Falling’: Providing Perspective on the Data Center Boom

By Dan Gearino

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