Just announced: OpenAI plans to lease a 9.2 gigawatt 100% fossil-fuelled data centre on Ohio.
Its emissions will be between 20 - 37 MTCO2-e - somewhere between the total grid emissions of France -> Netherlands
As much GHGs as 9.5 average coal plants. Will raise US total emissions by 0.5%
Ketan Joshi
for reference and comparison: conservatively, the United States spent two-thirds of that figure in the *first week* of the war on Iran. it's genuinely difficult to overstate how many world-historical own goals US politics has accumulated over the past few decades
A company that makes a no-tech, repairable tractor is having trouble keeping up with demand from farmers sick of John Deere's repair monopoly and simply want a tractor that turns on and works:
www.404media.co/demand-is-bo...
We need ~30 years of data from the AMOC to be able to finally determine if it's actually collapsing. We're at 20 years of data. Removing this now means we can't definitively determine a potential AMOC collapse that could result in substantial climate disruptions.
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
AI data centers consumed ~1 trillion liters/264 billion gallons of water in 2025. This is comparable to the annual water usage of 1.8 million Americans. AI data centers are currently consuming the same rate of water as the entirety of the world's bottled water industry. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
A new GAO report details “millions of dollars of waste” and several serious incidents at an ICE tent detention camp in El Paso, Texas: a detainee who died after an officer used force, a detainee suicide, and a detainee with tuberculosis housed with the general population
www.gao.gov/prerelease/d...
New data centers in Lake Tahoe and Virginia are creating headlines due to the impact on electricity supply.
@katenrg.bsky.social and @noahjgordon.bsky.social break down the data center debate and explore potential solutions: carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...
The Ocean Observatories Initiative has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the past decade
"There is consumer pressure to back away from technology that is unnecessary to perform everyday tasks."
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Americans across multiple states are being urged to conserve water as drought conditions intensify, reservoirs shrink, and utilities issue increasingly urgent warnings. At the same time, a different k...
ICE has increased its enforcement efforts and expanded detention capacity since January 2025. The Army and ICE opened ICE's largest facility—Camp East...
www.gao.gov
Dr. Prakash Kashwan
Examples from Virginia and Lake Tahoe reveal complex situations that governments could use to fund critical grid upgrades.
The forecast strength of this El Niño is astonishing! Plotted below are all the strongest El Nino’s on record vs the 2026 forecast (thick white line). Look at how deviant this event has the “potential” to be! Forget “Super”, if this verifies it deserves “Supercalifragilistic expialidocious!”… 1/
Carnegie Endowment
Mica Rosenberg
Jeff Berardelli
“if this materializes, it would be the strongest El Niño we have records for - going back 175 years”
NEW: The Climate Blind Spot in EU's New Migration Pact by
@carnegieeurope.bsky.social
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'The real surprise from the OECD’s subsidy numbers is that it cost China less than $18bn in sectoral support over 15 years to build an industry that can now provide more clean power than the world can readily absorb.'
@adamtooze.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/b6ca...
Clean power is within our reach — yet factories sit idle
carnegieendowment.org
www.ft.com
The EU’s new migration policy is not suited to today’s realities. With climate change increasingly becoming a driver of global refugee flows, Europe needs to rethink its deterrence-focused approach.
Eye opening El Niño forecast from the June European Model Ensemble! That red blob is deep into record territory for the peak in late 2026 with sea surface temperatures reaching 3-4°C / 5-7°F above normal in the main El Niño region. 1/
