Mississippi residents sued xAI and SpaceX over noise from a data center power plant qz.com/mississippi-...
This blew my mind.
Some of the largest data centers can require up to 5 million gallons of water per day, equivalent to the water use of 50,000 people.
Why are we selling out the survival of our planet to enrich a handful of Big Tech CEOs?
@rephuffman.bsky.social: Not even lighting a match to $700 M taxpayer dollars can save coal industry.
Trump causes "enormous" damage to U.S. global clean energy leadership and cost of living for struggling Americans. Jennifer McDermott @apnews.com : bit.ly/4gdSr6y
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Public comments on the BLM's draft Determination of NEPA Adequacy for Wayne National Forest close June 17.
Join us June 16 at noon ET for a NEPA 101 + Public Comment Drafting Workshop.
RSVP: bit.ly/wnf-zoom
Three plaintiffs filed the class action on behalf of an estimated 10,000 residents near a gas-fired power plant in Southaven
Sign up now for June 10 @saveohioparks.bsky.social webinar "Data Centers that Work for Ohioans."
Spoiler: They must run on renewable energy. It can and should be done. bit.ly/4okJhr9
#CincinnatiClimateWeek
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Supermajority Ohio GOP killed 5.3 GW of wind & solar over the last 12 years.
Utility watchdog: It sure would come in handy as energy prices soar. Curtis Deacon @yahoonews.com: yhoo.it/4ooEYuW
Why did they do that? Ignorance, or corruption?
Either means they are unfit to govern.
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Select Committee on Data Centers rushes to regulate them.
@nckevns.bsky.social @ohiocapitaljournal.com: bit.ly/3SvpKrQ
GOP concedes on NDAs and H2O pollution, but remains true to gas & oil donors by powering them with gas likely fracked from state parks & public lands.
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Business roundtable wants farmland taken by eminent domain for data center buildout. @morgantrau.bsky.social @wcpo9news.bsky.social: bit.ly/4vIg3F8
Sen. Brian Chavez hedges, though "forced unitization" laws already let frackers take mineral rights to drill for natural gas.
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Retrial indictment of two execs expands to include conspiracy to work in concert to "steal the power of government and bend it to the will of FirstEnergy." @cbsnews.com: cbsn.ws/4x8DU22
Ohio's biggest political scandal ever included $1.3 B tax bailout of two nuke plants and two aging coal plants.
Albania erupts in protest over Kushner/Trump development of pristine public land into luxury resort for the rich. Zana Cimili @apnews.com: bit.ly/3QaYldZ
They roll over Albanians like MAGA does Americans-- and Ohio GOP all Ohioans.
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Two fired FirstEnergy Corp. executives whose initial prosecutions ended in mistrial earlier this year have been reindicted.
Even as President Donald Trump boosts coal over clean energy, solar power is hitting new milestones in the U.S. and remains the leading source of new power.
"Boy, would that come in handy right now when electricity prices keep going up, up, up."
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Ohio lawmakers unveiled a sweeping data center bill Tuesday that reins in incentives and addresses several other public concerns. Drawing on testimony from the Select Committee on Data Centers, Ohio s...
A new proposal by a business trade group is causing Ohio farmers to fear that the state and utility companies could take private property to build data centers.
A massive coastal development project linked to Jared Kushner is facing resistance in Albania. The government claims the development on the Adriatic coast will transform the nation as it seeks high-end tourism and European Union membership.
