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Billionaires want data centers in space. Green groups want a federal review first.
1+ hour, 51+ min ago (150+ words) Full access to essential energy & environment news for professionals. By Corbin Hiar | 07/09/2026 01: 07 PM EDT Earth's orbit is becoming the next environmental battleground. Space X, Blue Origin and other startups have sought approval to launch hundreds of thousands of space-based satellite…...
AI's no-win choice: Using huge amounts of water or energy
8+ hour, 36+ min ago (1748+ words) By Ariel Wittenberg, Arianna Skibell | 07/09/2026 06: 11 AM EDT Tech companies face a fundamental choice with no winning answer for keeping data centers cool. The site of a proposed data center near arid Snowville, Utah. The facilities use either a lot of…...
Meta to invest $10 B in Alberta data center
9+ hour, 51+ min ago (160+ words) By Mickey Djuric | 07/09/2026 06: 29 AM EDT The facility will be the tech company's first in Canada. The Meta data center in Eagle Mountain, Utah, on July 18, 2024 " a complex of five large buildings, each more than four football fields long. Meta just…...
EPA joins DOJ's legal defense of Musk's x AI
23+ hour, 21+ min ago (159+ words) By Hassan Ali Kanu, Ariel Wittenberg | 07/08/2026 04: 27 PM EDT Adding the agency to the litigation corrects an apparent mistake in DOJ's unusual bid to dismiss a citizen Clean Air Act lawsuit. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is now involved in a legal…...
RFK Jr. condemns data center "threats" to farms
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (203+ words) By Ellie Borst | 07/08/2026 01: 38 PM EDT The Health secretary and his coalition of Make America Healthy Again followers have joined the data center resistance. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and President Donald Trump at an event in the…...
The "time-consuming" permits dozens of data centers are skipping
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (200+ words) By Miranda Willson | 07/08/2026 10: 59 AM EDT A court ruling shrinking the scope of the Clean Water Act has allowed new data centers to speed through the federal permitting process. Communities are feeling the effects. The Stargate artificial intelligence data center complex…...
Bitcoin miner bets on AI with $19 B deal in Kentucky
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (206+ words) By Arianna Skibell | 07/07/2026 06: 18 AM EDT Tera Wulf announced a 20-year lease agreement with Anthropic for a data center site that has drawn pushback. Servers are pictured inside a data center. On Monday, Tera Wulf announced a new data center agreement…...
All about the grid: E&E News reporters talk data centers, permitting and rising power demand
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (135+ words) By Manuel Qui'ones | 07/06/2026 01: 27 PM EDT Federal regulators are acting to address surging demand for electricity. Lawmakers in Congress are also working on their own solutions. Soaring power demand and rising electricity prices have prompted federal regulators to mobilize. At the…...
The data center boom " and its tax promises " run into rural resistance in North Carolina
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (1719+ words) By Arianna Skibell | 07/06/2026 06: 22 AM EDT Pushback in a ruby-red county with a rich archaeological history stalls a planned project. Farmland along the 1, 845 acres where the Project Delta data center would be built in Stokes County, North Carolina. Arianna Skibell/POLITICO…...
Push to regulate Texas data centers crimped by calendar
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (1693+ words) By Shelby Webb | 07/06/2026 06: 38 AM EDT A wave of new data centers could be given approval to come online before the Texas Legislature passes guardrail rules in 2027. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a Nasdaq closing bell ceremony at the Alamo…...