Energy & Climate
Utilities scale back pollution goals, citing surging data center demand
The electricity needed to power America’s artificial intelligence boom is now colliding with state-level climate policy, and climate policy is losing. In North Carolina, lawmakers have stripped out a 2030 carbon reduction deadline that applied to Duke Energy, the state’s dominant utility. In Virginia, regulators have created an entirely new rate category for data center […]
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