Data centers have become a boxy, hulking flashpoint heading into the midterms — and the backlash is spreading fast across red and blue states. Why it matters: With no federal action, states are fielding constituent anger over power grids, water supplies and strained local infrastructure. But investment keeps accelerating; Wall Street isn’t slowing down, and neither is...
Instability is the defining mood at the world’s most influential energy gathering this week — playing out in a split screen of oil markets jolted by the Iran war and an AI-supercharged power sector. Why it matters: The vibe at the CERAWeek conference underscores how quickly the energy landscape has turned unpredictable, leaving billions in...
“Experts are debating to what degree there is enough gas to satisfy both surging exports and rising power demand from data centers in the coming couple of years.” Read more in Axios here.
Axios reporter Amy Harder writes on how the AI boom is reshaping the energy mix. Read more in Axios here.
Global efforts to address climate change are — still — going far better today than they were a decade ago, even with recent politics pushing the problem to the back burner. Why it matters: We humans usually operate on daily, monthly and yearly time frames. So it can be easy to miss the energy transition...
The Interior Department on Friday halted construction on Ørsted’s Revolution Wind project off Rhode Island’s coast. Why it matters: It’s another sign of the Trump administration’s hostility to offshore wind and comes after it issued — then lifted — a stop-work order on a major wind project under construction off New York’s coast. Driving the news: Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management issued...
A massive report studying nearly 14.5 million students in 61 countries found that long-term heat exposure is interfering with students’ abilities to learn —and prolonged heat streaks are only getting worse. Why it matters: Increasingly high temperatures are worsening disparate educational outcomes, with the potential for long-term impacts on graduation rates and cognitive ability to grow as the globe continues to...
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