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 Are Data Centers a Threat to the Great Lakes?

Circle of Blue

Data Centers Map has been tracking data centers offering colocation, cloud services, and select crypto miners and hyperscale operators (like Amazon and Microsoft), since 2007. Once the system and pipes are filled, the water will remain in the closed loop system to be reused for cooling. Courtesy of Data Center Map.

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100 Days of Trump 2.0: Considerations for Cities and Community Partners

Law Columbia

Pursuant to the Clean Air Act and the 2007 Supreme Court decision in Massachusetts v. Of particular note is EPAs plan to review the Endangerment Finding. The Endangerment Finding was EPAs 2009 determination that greenhouse gases endanger public health and endanger public welfare.

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Soaring US Clean Energy Momentum Now At Risk

Union of Concerned Scientists

Source: EIA Here’s some of what I see in that virtuous spiral of clean energy progress: The early days represented in the data had very little generation from wind, and very very little from solar; combined, wind and solar generation reached 1% on a monthly basis for the first time only in 2007. Job creation and local economic development.

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PJM Electric Auction Impacts: 1 In 5 PA Households Report Problems Now Paying Energy Bills; Electric Utility Shutoffs Up 38.1% So Far This Year

PA Environment Daily

That big spike in 2006, 2007 really as a result of a couple of functions, one of which is the economy at the time and the recession that occurred. “Households at or below 150% of the federal poverty level had "experienced termination rates at exceptionally high levels that have been growing exponentially since 2001.

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PUC Hearing On Data Center Growth Impacts Finds 30-40% Of Utility Demand Could Be From Data Centers; Concerns About Stranded Costs; Major Commitments To Net-Zero Carbon Emissions Energy Use

PA Environment Daily

In 2007, Google committed to carbon neutrality in its operations. Moreover, data centers routinely require a large water supply for cooling purposes, which could impact system pressures and water source dependability, especially given the recent history of droughts and usage restrictions in Pennsylvania.

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Another dot on the graph

Real Climate

and the never-ending insistence of some solar enthusiasts that a dramatic cooling is right around the corner, these are not serious issues. The size of this cooling varies in the records, most of all in the satellite-derived AIRS v7 data, where the cooling is quite pronounced, and not at all in the ERA5 reanalysis.

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What is happening in the Atlantic Ocean to the AMOC?

Real Climate

A recent study by Qasmi 2023 has combined observations and models to isolate the drivers and concludes for the ‘cold blob’ region: “Consistent with the observations, an anthropogenic cooling is diagnosed by the method over the last decades (1951–2021) compared to the preindustrial period.”