1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1443+ words) A conversation with Emma Uridge of the Kansas Health Institute. Our conversation was lightly edited for clarity. What is actually being done on policy when it comes to data centers — beyond moratoria of course? We also see amendments to existing…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1476+ words) The data center boom is everywhere you look in U.S. economic and emissions data. It isn’t exactly a new thought, but I’ve been struck recently by how many trends in America’s economic and environmental data are fundamentally about the data center…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1443+ words) Plus more of the week’s big development fights. 1. Laramie County, Wyoming — Meta is fighting the fine it received in the Cheyenne data center water pollution controversy, and the conflict between the tech giant and the city’s small board of public…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1753+ words) The local government of Boulder City, Nevada had previously rejected a proposal for the computing facility, which would draw power from the existing electricity supply. The U.S. government for the first time approved a data center on federal lands. What the…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1928+ words) Rob talks with Charm Industrial cofounder Peter Reinhardt about “liquid smoke” and how it can store greenhouse gas at gigaton scale. Charm Industrial is a climate tech company that takes biomass and converts it into a heavy, carbon-rich oil that…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1910+ words) Investors are piling into startups that promise to solve hard problems using little energy. But that doesn’t meant the answer is ‘yes.’ Investment in quantum startups rose to $12.6 billion in 2025, six times the prior year’s total, according to McKinsey. The…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1930+ words) On Meta quits, Elon Musk’s solar plans, and federal coal reserves Current conditions: Tropical Storm Bertha washed out the majority of monitored sea turtle nests in the western part of the Florida Panhandle • Record rain in West Virginia swelled creeks…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (787+ words) Trump’s new tariffs seem to make few exemptions for clean energy. Is this how a new wave of inflation starts? The international crude oil benchmark leapt to $100 a barrel on Thursday, its highest level since May. The surge came after…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (963+ words) The company’s latest sustainability report, shared exclusively with Heatmap, shows that carbon intensity per kilometer traveled has dropped 81% since 2019. Lime, the electric scooter and bike-sharing company that recently raised $174 million in its initial public offering, estimates that it replaced 38 million…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (794+ words) A new 60-home pilot program aims to expand vehicle-to-grid charging. The program has already begun enrolling its first participants, joining a small but growing group of V2G demonstrations across the country. But the field remains so nascent that even a 60-home…...