artificial intelligence

Data Center Permitting: A Roadmap     

AI is fueling a surge in data center construction. Here’s what you need to know.

Data Centers have significant environmental footprints, which is going to raise several permitting issues except for those using clean energy sources. The permitting issue are mapped out in this post. The Trump Administration is clearly going to do its best to free the industry from environmental limits. We’ll see how successful that is going to be.

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Trump’s Discordant Coal Quartet

Yesterday’s four executive orders were long on talk and short on action.

Yesterday, flanked by a coal miners in hard hats, Trump signed four executive orders to restore their industry to its past glory.  Given that coal is now the most expensive way to generate power other than nuclear, that’s going to be a heavy lift. Like many of Trump’s orders, these four are full of threats and bluster, but will have little immediate effect. These orders give the same impression as many executive orders — that Something Important is Being Done — but they are really more in the way of promises of future action. 

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