Trump wants tech companies to foot the bill for new power plants because of AI
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/16/trump-wants-tech-companies-to-foot-the-bill-for-new-power-plants-because-of-ai.html The Trump administration and several states are urging PJM Interconnection to make tech companies pay for the power needed for their data centers. They are also calling for PJM to hold an emergency auction to secure more generation. Electricity prices have exploded on PJM due in part to data centers. PJM serves more than […]
Meta signs nuclear energy deals to power Prometheus AI supercluster
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/09/meta-signs-nuclear-energy-deals-to-power-prometheus-ai-supercluster.html Meta said it has secured agreements with energy companies Vistra, TerraPower and Oklo, which are working on nuclear power technologies. They’re planning to work together to eventually power Meta’s Prometheus supercluster computing system that’s being built at a data center in New Albany, Ohio. Tech giants like Meta are investing heavily in nuclear power […]
Analysis: Don’t blame AI’s data centers for rising rates: ‘Electricity prices are rising fastest in states pursuing green energy policies, including California, Massachusetts, & New York’
Steve Goreham: Excerpt: But environmentalists are wrong in their assertion that data centers are the cause of rising electricity prices. From 2019 to 2024, power prices in the two states with the most data centers, Virginia (over 600) and Texas (over 400), rose far less than the rate of inflation. Virginia power prices were up only 13.2% and Texas prices up only 14.2%, well below the cumulative rate of inflation of 22.7% over the five-year period. Instead, Department of Energy data show that electricity prices are rising fastest in states pursuing green energy policies, including California, Massachusetts, and New York.
Environmental groups decry data center power consumption but ignore the power use of green energy programs. Electric cars, home electric appliances, and green hydrogen also use huge amounts of electricity compared to traditional fuels, but these initiatives are promoted by environmental groups in the name of fighting human-caused climate change.
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Data centers also can use large amounts of water to cool AI servers, particularly if evaporative cooling is used. But new centers increasingly use closed-loop cooling systems to reduce water consumption. In addition, some projects are building new water facilities near data centers. Google financed the building of a water treatment plant for the Douglas County Water and Sewer Authority to support a new data center near Atlanta, Georgia.
‘We have to reject that with every fiber of our being’: DeSantis emerges as a chief AI skeptic – Warns AI could displace & rails against ‘the mindless slop’ AI creates
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/27/we-have-to-reject-that-with-every-fiber-of-our-being-desantis-emerges-as-a-chief-ai-skeptic-00704333 He notably has taken aim at data centers sprouting up across the country by attempting to slow their growth in Florida, siding with local communities opposing the massive developments. And DeSantis frequently raises fears of how AI could ultimately upend the economy by displacing countless workers. By ANDREW ATTERBURY Excerpt: TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Gov. […]
Meteorologist Joe Bastardi: ‘We were sold an apocalypse that hasn’t arrived’ – ‘After 30+ years & more than $10–12 trillion spent globally on the climate emergency’
https://www.cfact.org/2025/12/09/a-different-incovenient-truth-this-one-is-true/ A different inconvenient truth (this one is true) By Joe Bastardi I am using AI in my work now, as you know. AI arrives at an answer given the information it has, and does so much more quickly. What is vital is asking the right questions of it. And so, I want to share […]
Alex Epstein: ‘We need to stop normalizing electricity scarcity. We have known for a long time how to generate cheap, plentiful, reliable electricity. We’ve just agreed to policies that prevent us from doing it’
We need to stop normalizing electricity scarcity. We have known for a long time how to generate cheap, plentiful, reliable electricity. We've just agreed to policies that prevent us from doing it. AI has revealed just how insane and destructive this has been. Energy freedom! pic.twitter.com/5IoGGdwnMW — Alex Epstein (@AlexEpstein) December 4, 2025
If the BBC Never Questions Net Zero it Might as Well be Replaced With Cheaper AI: What’s the point of employing so many journalists just to regurgitate the official line?
“The BBC’s bias on climate change has been baked in for decades. A secret meeting decided the science was ‘settled’ back in 2006. In 2018, it banned all sceptical discussion from the airwaves. It’s traduced the scientific process.”@CMorrisonEsq on the Sceptic. Full episode pic.twitter.com/Ls0B0Q0Ati — Toby Young (@toadmeister) November 26, 2025 https://www.climateskeptic.org/p/if-the-bbc-never-questions-net-zero By CHRIS MORRISON […]
A huge Grok beatdown of climate hysteria: The area of the globe where 99.8% of people live has experienced a warming of about 0.1°C from 1991-2020.
https://www.cfact.org/2025/11/02/a-huge-grok-beatdown-of-climate-hysteria/ By Joe Bastardi I tasked Grok with this: Using this map with its temperature gradients in relation to the average,compute the temperature between 60 north and 60 south, excluding temperatures north of 60 north and south of 60 south. This is for October. Grok: The provided map visualizes global temperature anomalies (deviations from the […]
Google to bring shuttered nuclear power plant back from the dead
https://www.newsbreak.com/share/4320896842200-google-to-bring-shuttered-nuclear-power-plant-back-from-the-dead By Tim De Chant, Google announced this week it is working with NextEra Energy to revive a nuclear power plant in Iowa that had closed in 2020. NextEra has been looking for a partner to reopen the reactor for the past year, and it found one in Google, which has been steadily adding zero-carbon energy sources […]
Morano: Gates’ about-face on climate could be linked to his AI business concerns
Marc Morano said the so-called change of heart from Gates is a combination of several factors…@ClimateDepot @CFACT #energy #environment https://t.co/OR4oPB3Vp6 — Chris Woodward (@ReporterChrisW) October 31, 2025 https://afn.net/science-tech/2025/10/31/gates-about-face-on-climate-could-be-linked-to-business-concerns/ By Chris Woodward Gates now insists that climate change “will not lead to humanity’s demise.” That’s the opposite of what Gates (shown above) has been telling people […]