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Utah’s fragile desert could feel like the Sahara if America’s biggest data center gets built
The Great Salt Lake is drying up. What happens when a data center as large as a city sits next to it?
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Chevron wants a school district tax break for a data center power plant
The move could save the oil company hundreds of millions in Texas, even as state lawmakers start looking at reining in incentives for data centers.
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Energy bills keep rising. These candidates in Georgia say they can help.
With the state’s energy future hanging in the balance, 10 people are vying for two seats on the powerful utility commission.
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Wall Street is betting big on clean energy tech
Fervo Energy's IPO could raise $1.8 billion in one of the largest renewable energy public offerings ever, signaling growing investor confidence in clean energy.
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In coal country, black lung surges as federal protections stall
While the Trump administration is directing hundreds of millions of dollars to coal projects, miners in Appalachia are suffering from a resurgence of black lung disease. But industry pushback is delaying federal rules that would reduce miners’ exposure to deadly silica dust.
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‘Keystone Light’: These Wyoming oil tycoons are reviving the controversial pipeline
The Trump administration is rushing to approve a 650-mile pipeline to bring oil from Canada’s tar sands into the U.S.
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Democrats used to back energy-saving plans. Now they’re wavering.
Why are politicians from both parties targeting measures that have saved Americans trillions of dollars?
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American homes need heat pumps, not space heaters
The ultraefficient appliances don't just have to supplant gas furnaces, but space heaters as well.
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California will soon have more than 300 data centers. Where will they get their water?
A proposed data center in the Imperial Valley would need 750,000 gallons of water a day. Satisfying the thirst of 24 more facilities expected to open in the state will be challenging, experts and officials say.
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Two months in, the Iran war has changed the global energy system forever
The conflict may be the beginning of the end of fossil fuel dominance. Here’s which energy sources stand to win and lose.
