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Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 25, 2025
They require far more powerful processors called GPUs (Graphics Processing Units), consume dramatically more electricity, and need significantly more water for cooling. A single AI-focused data center can use as much electricity as a small city and as much water as a large neighborhood. to 12% (300+ TWh to 500+ TWh).
Enviromental Defense
JULY 2, 2025
2 Energy The electricity required to power and cool date centres represents another significant environmental concern. per cent of the world’s electricity consumption in 2024, while this is set to more than double by the end of the decade. The post Beyond the Cloud: What’s AI’s True Environmental Cost?
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Law Columbia
JANUARY 22, 2025
Environmental Protection Agencys (EPA) 2024 greenhouse gas emissions standards for heavy-duty vehicles (the HDV Rule) that went into effect on June 21, 2024. Yesterday, January 21, 2025, the Sabin Center filed an amicus brief on behalf of the National League of Cities (NLC) and the U.S. Our involvement in this case, Nebraska v.
Circle of Blue
JULY 9, 2025
From that year forward, the agency predicted, the use of the dirtiest fuel to generate electricity would steadily decline, carrying with it planet-healing reductions in climate-changing air emissions and water-polluting discharges. electricity markets. At the time, the IEA forecast appeared sound. Coal production dropped. Much cleaner.
Circle of Blue
JULY 10, 2025
Due to Environmental Protection Agency regulations set by the Obama administration in 2015, and by the Biden administration in 2024, the coal ash disposal site at the Cayuga station was closed, and the ash removed. Its coal-fired component is scheduled to close by 2028 as part of the city’s transition to natural gas.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 23, 2025
Not for the betterment of the US public, as these actions would freeze, repeal, or actively undermine critical public health and environmental protections. New pipelines, and new LNG terminals, are actively under constructionthe latter of which are already projected to nearly double LNG capacity by 2028.
Legal Planet
JULY 29, 2025
Michael Wara at Stanford has some good advice for PPIC pollsters, because we already know people are willing to pay more for their electricity if it is clean. He promised the US would build as much new electricity capacity as China this year, E&E reports. Despite the Trump administration’s knee-jerk cancellation of a $4.9
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