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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#DataCenters’ Hunger for #Energy Could Raise All #Electric Bills
Individuals and small businesses may end up bearing some of the cost of grid upgrades needed for large #electricity users, a new report found. That’s because the cost of the #powerplants, transmission lines and other equipment that utilities need to serve data centers, factories and other large users of electricity is likely to be spread to everybody who uses electricity.
nytimes.com/2025/05/16/busines
archive.ph/SWza6

Data centers account for much of the increase in demand for electricity.
The New York Times · Data Centers’ Hunger for Energy Could Raise All Electric BillsBy Ivan Penn
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#Spain's #blackout report: #Powerplants meant to stabilize voltage didn’t
Report concludes several steps meant to address small instability made matters worse, eventually leading to a self-reinforcing cascade where high voltages caused power plants to drop off grid, thereby increasing voltage further. Critically, report suggests that Spanish grid operator had an unusually low number of plants on call to stabilize matters, and some of the ones it did have responded poorly. arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

Image of a dry, brown hillside with lots of small scrub, and white wind turbines in the background.
Ars Technica · Spanish blackout report: Power plants meant to stabilize voltage didn’tBy John Timmer
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Nonilex

“More people will die,” said Cory Zigler, a professor of biostatistics at Brown who has studied #air #pollution #deaths from #coal-fired #PowerPlants. “More of this type of pollution that we know kills people will be in the air.”

…Virtually all the benefits from the rules come from restricting the burning of coal, #oil & natural #gas. The #FossilFuel industry was a heavy contributor to #Trump’s campaign & #Republicans overall.

#EPA#PublicHealth#law
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

What #solar? What #wind? #Texas #datacenters build their own #gas #powerplants
On the old ranch across the street, developers want to build an complex of supercomputers for AI, plus a large, private power plant to run it.
The plant would be big enough to power a major city, with 1,200MW of planned generation capacity fueled by West Texas shale gas. It will only supply the new #datacenter, and possibly other large data centers recently proposed, down the road.
arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

Ars Technica · What solar? What wind? Texas data centers build their own gas power plantsBy Inside Climate News
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Documents Show #EPA Wants to Erase #GreenhouseGas Limits on #PowerPlants
Agency argues #carbon #emissions from power plants do not contribute “significantly” to #climatechange. Eliminating those emissions would have no meaningful effect on public health and welfare, agency said.
Scientists overwhelmingly concluded that #carbondioxide, #methane and other greenhouse gases from the burning of #oil, #gas and #coal are dangerously heating the planet.
nytimes.com/2025/05/24/climate
archive.ph/nMxLC

The New York Times · Documents Show E.P.A. Wants to Erase Greenhouse Gas Limits on Power PlantsBy Lisa Friedman
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Nonilex

…After this article was published [14 mins ago], however, #NPS spox Rachel Pawlitz said in an email that the stop-work orders would be reversed & that “contractors will be notified immediately.”🤔

…The program collects data on levels of harmful #air #pollutants, including #ozone & particulates, at the 63 #NationalParks in the US. Federal ofcls consult this data when deciding whether to grant permits to nearby industrial facilities, such as #PowerPlants or #oil refineries.

#Trump#AirQuality
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#Air #pollution still plagues nearly half of #Americans. That does a number on our #health
Report comes as Trump admin is rolling back some key air quality regulations. Air quality across country has improved dramatically since regulations like #CleanAirAct in 1970s to govern sources of pollution like #coal-fired #powerplants and #emissions from #diesel trucks. In 2023, nearly half of #US -- 156 million -- lived in places heavy in smog or soot pollution that harms health.
npr.org/2025/04/23/nx-s1-53681

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#EPA administrator #LeeZeldin says Trump deregulatory actions won't have adverse effects on people and the environment
As part of President's pledge to unleash American energy, Zeldin announced EPA would reconsider rules across a number of sectors, including regulations on #powerplants, on #mercury and toxix airthat target #coal and on #wastewater for development of #oil and #gas. Trump admin touted the 31 deregulatory actions as the "most momentous day" in EPA history.
cbsnews.com/news/lee-zeldin-ep

CBS News · EPA administrator Lee Zeldin says he can "absolutely" guarantee Trump deregulatory actions won't have adverse health effectsBy Kaia Hubbard
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Trump’s #EPA Plans to Stop Collecting #GreenhouseGas #Emissions Data From Most #Polluters
#Climate experts expressed shock and dismay. “It would be a bit like unplugging the equipment that monitors the vital signs of a patient that is critically ill,” one said.
The move would affect thousands of industrial facilities across the country, including #oil refineries, #powerplants and #coal #mines as well as those that make #petrochemicals, cement, glass, iron and steel.
propublica.org/article/trump-e

ProPublicaTrump’s EPA Plans to Stop Collecting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data From Most Polluters
More from ProPublica
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Nonilex

#LeeZeldin’s move effectively ends 3 decades of work at the #EPA to try to ease the #pollution that burdens #poor & #minority communities, which are frequently located near #highways, #PowerPlants, #industrial plants & other polluting facilities. Studies have shown that people who live in those #communities have higher rates of #asthma, #HeartDisease & other #health problems, compared w/the national average.

#law#EnvironmentalJustice#PublicHealth
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Trump Said, ‘We Have More Coal Than Anybody.’ See Where We Burn It.
There are 206 #coal-burning #powerplants left in the #UnitedStates, which supply about 16% of the country’s energy. Experts say burning more doesn’t make financial sense.
After declaring a national energy emergency on his first day in office, President Trump said Thursday that "good, clean coal” could be a fuel source for new #electric generating plants.
nytimes.com/2025/01/24/climate
archive.ph/Qu0cZ #climatechange #climate

The New York Times · Trump Said, ‘We Have More Coal Than Anybody.’ See Where We Burn It.By Austyn Gaffney
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Has Trump changed retirement plans for the country’s largest #coal #powerplants?
A growth in #electricity demand is leading to talk of delayed closures.
A few extra years of a coal plant is more stopgap than a long-term solution. When it comes to building new plants developers are talking about #naturalgas, #solar, #nuclear, but have yet to see a substantial discussion of building new coal.
arstechnica.com/science/2025/0 #climate #cliamtechange #climatecrisis

We need to get off #FossilFuels! FullStop

Ars Technica · Has Trump changed the retirement plans for the country’s largest coal plants?By Inside Climate News
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Startup is getting closer to bringing next-generation #nuclear to grid
#KairosPower signed a big deal with a tech giant and got approval to build its next test facility.
While construction on test reactors is rolling, Kairos is forging ahead with commercial deals—in Oct, it announced agreement with #Google to build up to 500MW’ worth of #powerplants by 2035. Under this agreement, Kairos will develop, construct, and operate plants and sell #electricity to the tech giant.
technologyreview.com/2024/11/2

MIT Technology Review · This startup is getting closer to bringing next-generation nuclear to the gridBy Casey Crownhart
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Eric Maugendre

Who benefits from portfolios of #housing and #infrastructure like toll roads, hospitals, gas pipelines, data centres, water and sanitation services, telecom towers, electricity generation facilities?
Why such discretion? 🧵
canadiandimension.com/articles

canadiandimension.comBrett Christophers on our growing ‘asset-manager society’As geographer Brett Christophers shows, many people now live in homes and rely on infrastructure like toll roads, hospitals, gas pipelines, data centres, water and sanitation services, telecom towers, and electricity generation facilities that are ultimately owned by pension funds, insurance companies, and banks through highly complex asset management schemes.
#funds#pensionFunds#Toronto
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