File - The roof of a data center is pictured in Frankfurt, Germany, Friday, Aug. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Probst) This story is part of the WHYY News Climate Desk, bringing you news and solutions ...

California is a major hub for data centers — the facilities that store and transmit much of the internet. But just how much these power-hungry operations affect the state’s energy use, climate and ...

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Drive in almost any direction from almost any American city, and soon enough you’ll arrive at a data center—a giant white box rising from graded earth, flanked by generators and fenced like a prison ...

Energy Secretary Chris Wright is directing the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to initiate a rulemaking process to accelerate the connection of large loads, such as data centers, to the grid.

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Oracle and OpenAI's Stargate data center in Shackelford County, Texas, will be powered by an on-site natural gas plant. Voltagrid, partner of site developer Vantage Data Centers, is building the ...

Guest columnist Molly Bryden is Policy Matters Ohio’s climate and sustainability researcher. Across Ohio, technology companies are racing to build data centers -- massive facilities necessary for ...

On a quiet road in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, not far from the field where George Washington’s starving soldiers waited out the winter in 1778, sits the headquarters for PJM Interconnection, the ...