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Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 26, 2025
The bill ( LD 1868 ), passed by the Maine Legislature on June 13, will reduce the state’s reliance on imported fossil fuels by requiring all of Maine’s power to come from renewable energy and other carbon-free electricity sources by 2040. She signed the bill into law on June 20, 2025.
Circle of Blue
JUNE 23, 2025
The diminished state of the lake and the potential severe drop in electricity supply illustrate the consequences of a warming climate for the region. If there is a reason not to be especially alarmed it’s this: Hoover is just a small piece of the region’s electric power infrastructure. Today its capacity is 1,304 MW.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 10, 2025
The staggering amount of electricity required to fuel artificial intelligence, and the data centers behind them, has driven these companies to such extreme measures that they are attempting to bring retired nuclear power plants back to life. There’s no question that data centers use a lot of electricity.
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
The local utilitys website predicted that the power would be back on for the area by 4:30 that afternoon. This experience, not far from Seattle and with ties to the information tech industry, highlights some of the issues surrounding the electric power needs of data centers. He assured me he hadnt: it doesnt require electricity!
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 17, 2025
In the rush to integrate artificial intelligence into the economy, fast-moving information technology companies are running into a problem: slow-moving electric utilities. In more ways than one, the electricity supply so vital to running a data center simply doesnt respond the way Silicon Valley and big investors want.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 12, 2025
Why did the power go out for nearly 100,000 Louisianans over Memorial Day weekend? An Entergy-operated nuclear power plant unexpectedly went offline, meaning it was not providing power to the grid. Sunday’s outage was a demonstration of what can go wrong when there is not enough transmission to handle that “traffic.”
PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 24, 2025
Rising electricity demand from U.S. People across the country are trying to square the benefits that technology can bring with the real and growing impacts on the environment and consumers, said Ellie Kerns , Climate and Clean Energy Advocate with the PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center. of the states energy use.
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