The United States is the world’s fourth-largest steel producer, and today, most of the country’s primary steel is made using coal in scorching-hot furnaces. For steelmakers to shift away from these polluting facilities, they’ll need to use huge amounts of clean energy and adopt cutting-edge technologies. A recent report by the Clean Energy Buyers Association … Continue reading “Move over, data centers. US steel mills need lots of clean power too.”
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Loudoun County and surrounding Northern Virginia are home to almost 300 data centers, the biggest concentration of such campuses in the world. It’s the crossroads for roughly 70% of global internet traffic. Prolific construction of the mega-buildings that make cloud computing possible — combined with the accompanying need for transmission lines for electricity and water … Continue reading “Virginia’s bold plan to turn old coal mines into clean data centers”
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Across the U.S. East Coast, nuclear power plant owners are proposing marriages to tech giants who are both desperate for electricity to fuel their massive data-center expansion plans and publicly committed to using clean energy. The proposals go like this: Build data centers that connect directly to our round-the-clock, carbon-free nuclear power, and secure long-term … Continue reading “Data centers want to tap existing nuclear power. Is that good or bad?”