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Maine said no to new data centers. Other states are racing to follow.
At least 12 more legislatures are weighing bills to halt grid-killing AI development.
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Maine said no to new data centers. Other states are racing to follow.
At least 12 more legislatures are weighing bills to halt grid-killing AI development.
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The Rare Japanese Ultraphone is Bonkers
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Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire Country
Amazon has bought a site in Texas where it plans to build a data center campus.
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Election Watch: The grid doesn’t need more gas to go clean; beer drinkers to pay more tax than gas
Politicians claim we need to dig up more gas to run a clean power grid. It ain’t true.
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Flow Batteries Part 2: Harvard Startup Cracks the Code for Grid-Scale Water Battery
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Power goes out on entire island of Cuba, leaving 10 million people without electricity
Cubans expressed alarm, with one resident saying it felt as if the country had reached the “bottom of the barrel.”
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It’s time for utility bill reform
Programs that serve broad public purposes should be financed through state general funds rather than hidden in your electric bill, writes Marc Brown at the Consumer Energy Alliance.
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Sunrun and Tesla deliver record 580MW to California grid amid heatwave
Residential battery energy storage systems (BESS) across California discharged more than 580MW of peak power to the state's grid on the evening of 9 September 2026 via a Tesla-Sunrun VPP.
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Google, Georgia Power Have Deal to Support Nuclear Power Plant Uprates
Electric utility Georgia Power and tech giant Google said the companies have an agreement under which Google will support power uprates at two of the utility's nuclear power plants. The post Google, G
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Texas PUC adopts softened rules on data center interconnection
The Public Utility Commission of Texas backed off the standards it proposed in March, eliminating a non-refundable interconnection fee, halving its financial security requirement and extending energiz
electrek.co
Tesla and Sunrun's virtual power plant dispatch record 580 MW to California grid
Sunrun and Tesla pulled a record 580 megawatts of power from home batteries onto California’s grid during a heat wave on September 9, the largest residential distributed power plant event ever recorde
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Finland proposes priority system for grid connections
Finland’s government is proposing a priority system for electricity network connections in areas of scarce grid capacity in a bid to incentivise large electricity consumers and standalone storage syst
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Power Availability Now Determines Where Data Centers Get Built
Power availability shapes data center site selection as operators prioritize firm capacity, timelines, and on-site generation for faster time to revenue
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