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Guest Essay: Geothermal Might Have The Answer For Pennsylvania's Clean Energy Needs

PA Environment Daily

In fact, pursuing more climate-forward energy policies can be an opportunity to do right by our neighbors working in Pennsylvanias oil and gas fields. There is a path in Pennsylvania where clean energy advocates and the traditional oil and gas industry can meet: geothermal energy.

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What are the environmental impacts of artificial intelligence? 

Union of Concerned Scientists

They require far more powerful processors called GPUs (Graphics Processing Units), consume dramatically more electricity, and need significantly more water for cooling. That’s where part of the water consumption comes in, to keep those servers cool. To cool the servers and data center facilities, there are multiple methods.

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How Can We Protect the Environment and Thrive in 2025? We’ve Got a Plan!

Enviromental Defense

Attacks on nature, clean energy, and livable communities filled the headlines. The way we get around, where and what kind of places we live in, and how we heat and cool our homes are going to be key to our quality of life and the health of our environment this year. 2024 had some bumps in the road for environmental protection.

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Analysis: China’s power system needs climate proofing

A Greener Life

From Texas to Tamil Nadu, power grids have been buckling under unprecedented demand for cooling, exposing a paradox of the energy transition. China, home to the worlds biggest clean-power system, epitomises this challenge. An estimated 31% of the increase stemmed from higher cooling needs. c in August and 23.1

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Learnings from the National Working Waterfronts Networks Conference

Ocean Conservancy

It takes bold industry players like Crowley to lead the way toward port decarbonizationand, lets be honest, eWolf is just a cool name. I left the National Working Waterfronts Network Conference with a deeper appreciation for the professionals working to ensure our waterfronts remain vibrant, resilient and sustainable.

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Power Hungry: Why Data Centers Are Developing Their Own Energy Sources to Fuel AI

Union of Concerned Scientists

Most data center energy use is consumed by data processing computer chips, but this work also produces a lot of heat; the processors can run as hot as 175°F , and the cooling equipment needed to keep them from overheating accounts for roughly 20% of the total electric energy consumed by the facility.

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Recap: CRES Forum hosts C6WC—Connecting Communicators on Capitol Hill with Resources about Franked Mail!

Cresforum

In July, CRES Forum hosted a Cool Conservative Communicators Collaborating on Climate Change with CRES Forum, or “C6WC,” event in the U.S. Capitol building, an event to bring communications staff together to meet, connect and learn more about how to effectively message using “franked” mail to highlight energy issues.