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Beyond the Cloud: What’s AI’s True Environmental Cost? Part 2

Enviromental Defense

Goldman Sachs analysis predicts that by 2028, AI will represent about 19 per cent of all data centre power demand. AI applications specifically are driving much of this growth.

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World’s Biggest Court Opinion on Climate

Legal Planet

More than 80% of us favor building more solar power stations in California. The rates are too damned high and Democrats will need a strategic plan to stabilize or cut electricity costs heading into 2028, Robinson Meyer writes at Heatmap news. Despite the Trump administration’s knee-jerk cancellation of a $4.9 Alexander C.

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Top 10 Stories: Harrisburg/PA Politics Reported By Local News Media Last Week

PA Environment Daily

Ohio- $2.80 PA- $3.27 -- Reuters: US Gasoline Prices Set To Climb As Presidents New Tariffs Kick In -- Bloomberg: Oil Posts 7th Weekly Loss On Easing War Risk, Tariff Chaos -- American Gas Association: Presidents Tariffs On Canadian Natural Gas Will Cost US Consumers At Least $1.1

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African Solar Installations Headed for Banner Year

Yale E360

Close / ← → Search Search Yale Environment 360 Published at the Yale School of the Environment Explore Search About E360 E360 Digest March 14, 2025 African Solar Installations Headed for Banner Year Namibian solar installers in training. Zambia doubled its solar capacity last year, the report said.

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Who Really Pays for Data Centers Powered By Fossil Fuels? 

Union of Concerned Scientists

Nobody is 100% sure, but some experts estimate it could nearly triple in just 5 years, with data centers representing up to 12% of total US electricity consumption in 2028, up from 4.4% So, how much energy will data centers need in the future?

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Boosting Michigan’s Energy Future with Regional Transmission Upgrades

Union of Concerned Scientists

This much-needed set of 18 projects will improve electricity reliability, address overloaded wires , and help unlock more lower-cost wind and solar power to replace costly, polluting fossil fuel plants in Michigan and many other states in the Midwest (including Illinois and Minnesota ). Source: MISO. What’s in it for Michigan?

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How Will DTE’s Long-Term Plan Impact Michigan’s Clean Energy Future?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Earlier this year, the MPSC approved a settlement agreement on Consumers Energy’s integrated resource plan that commits the company to retire all its remaining coal-fired power plants by 2025, construct no new fossil gas infrastructure, and build large amounts of new solar power between now and 2040.