By Lauren McCauley | Editor
“Even if we have enough steel in the ground, we can see in the winter when demand gets really high that those energy market prices spike pretty dramatically.” - Patrick Scully, of the Maine Public Utilities Commission, on the potential impact of data centers on power costs.
An explosion of data center facilities, including the one pictured here in northeast Oregon on May 18 have been built along the Columbia River Gorge during the last few years. (Photo by Jordan Gale/Oregon Capital Chronicle)
ENERGY
By Kaitlyn Budion
The Data Center Advisory Council met Wednesday and began to refine its initial draft recommendations, which are due to lawmakers in a final report in January. Much of the discussion related to energy, which has been a key concern of communities across the country with the rapid expansion of large scale data center development.
ENERGY
By Cami Koons
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said Tuesday in Iowa that she is urging state governors to follow the president’s move to suspend penalties on the unrestricted use of dyed diesel, a tax-exempt fuel typically allowed in off-road machinery only.
DEMOCRACY
By Jonathan Shorman
The Department of Homeland Security obtained tens of millions of unspecified records as part of a sweeping nationwide effort to find voter fraud, according to internal DHS reports, and weighed using undercover agents to investigate voter registration efforts by nonprofit groups.
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