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And if this 1.6 GW gas plant is not grid-connected, it's exempt from the Clean Air Act's Acid Rain Program. bsky.app/profile/erik...

"A key advantage of the location is its proximity to major gas pipelines." A common theme in many of the big data center proposals coming forward.

Also, these huge power plants create big supply chain squeezes. So, it's a fiction that these gas plants have no impacts on public electricity grids. And, let's not forget, they've very much tapping gas pipelines paid for by everyday ratepayers.

Like so many other data center proposals, this one will go behind-the-meter to avoid the interconnection queues. So, no one will be charged with studying the implications of this project for the grid, even though most experts say that these BTM projects will eventually need to connect.

Following on the heels of the massive proposed gas-powered data center complex in Ohio led by OpenAI with backing from Nvidia, Anthropic moving forward with its own massive gas-powered data center complex in Texas with backing from Google. [gift link]

My latest op-ed is on the new environmental movement that has emerged in response to the data center boom. So much work to do to enact the guardrails we need but, as I explain here, I feel really good about the community-spirited people stepping up to lead this work.

NextEra and Brookfield are planning a 2 GW fossil-powered data center complex on federal land in western Kentucky. Apparently the tax breaks and subsidized use of our grid infrastructure is not enough, data centers are now coming after our public lands.

This is SO good. At a time when the data center industry is using NDAs and similar measures to hide its impacts, we need journalists like this who do honest and effective story-telling about what we're confronting. Appreciate the focus on Stargate, one of the more insidious projects.

Highly recommended for anyone who wants to better understand the impact of LNG exports and data centers on gas prices (and thus utility bills). Key detail: gas production gets much more expensive once it (inevitably) moves to Haynesville shale.

It’s official: Data centers are slowing America’s shift away from coal

My latest op-ed is on the new environmental movement that has emerged in response to the data center boom. So much work to do to enact the guardrails we need but, as I explain here, I feel really good about the community-spirited people stepping up to lead this work.

@jeremykress.bsky.social explains why Nviidia's circular financing for this massive project poses systemic risks: If OpenAI struggles to repay its debts, that may mean that the entire AI industry, including Nvidia, is in financial distress. Yep and OpenAi's history gives zero reason for confidence.

The claim here that Google is seeing "sizable returns" from data center deals is patently absurd. The only evidence cited is "the company’s investments in A.I.-related companies like SpaceX and Anthropic." Sorry, but frothy valuations are not evidence of AI profitability.

The original article: variety.com/2026/music/n...

The best friend of American farmers has a thing to say about data centers.

📣 Our new report finds that the Trump admin’s energy + AI “dominance” policies + hostility to renewables will make it even harder for working families to afford their energy bills. Thanks to Trump, the wholesale price of fossil gas could DOUBLE over the next decade, outpacing inflation every year.

Yes, all of us should do our part to support the small outlets that serve as our eyes and ears in this buildout. Also, is there any way to shame the NYT into doing better? The WaPo is now hopeless thx to Bezos turning it into a tech billionaire enrichment scheme, but NYT presumably still cares?

The article is awful in many respects. The worst of it is that there are many people documenting the environmental impacts of data centers (the ostensible point of the piece) but none is cited. Instead all we get is one person's highly misleading "carbon intensity/ per chatbot query" metric.

Very interested in hearing how many of these folks also see climate disruption & loss of democracy as existential risks.

The NGO landscape could change radically due to large-scale giving by those made wealthy by the OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs. Some predict that NGOs working on AI's existential risks will receive far more backing than those fighting for human rights & against mass surveillance & other online harms.