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Burning the furniture to heat the house is actually unconstitutional in PA, though the state Supreme Court ruling has been ignored by the last 2 governors and the general assembly. See www.pedf.org/uploads/1/9/...

Gas prices are set to increase amid Iran war. Here's what we know. What to know about increasing gas prices amid the U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran and what it means for your wallet.

Spoke to @inquirer.com about energy price impacts of the (illegal, unconstitutional) war in Iran.

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Riff Raff: Calling for a data center pause - Talk Business & Politics States and communities around the country have paused or are moving to pause data center developments. Such moves come from growing concerns about electricity demands, water use, water pollution, nois...

Mentioned here.

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AI: Does not compute Building fossil-fuel infrastructure to power data centers is a poor bet. Renewables are by far the cheaper, faster choice.

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YouTube video by MS NOW 'Follow the money': Maddow’s INSTANT REACTION to U.S. striking Iran

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$2M federal grant to help Pa. study electric grid updates as data center demand grows Pennsylvania agencies are teaming up with a powerful nonprofit to study ways to modernize the electric grid. The effort is funded by a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.

WESA - Rachel McDevitt: $2 Million Grant To Help Business Nonprofit Team PA Study Electric Grid Updates As A.I. Data Center Demand Grows www.wesa.fm/environment-...

Shrinking North American bird population is getting worse faster. Experts blame agriculture, warming A new study finds North American bird populations keep dropping, and that decline is speeding up for many species.

AP: Shrinking North American Bird Population Is Getting Worse Faster; Experts Blame Intensive Agriculture, Climate Warming apnews.com/article/bird...

Birds Aren’t Just Declining. They’re Declining Faster, a New Study Finds.

"Birds in the United States are not only declining, but they are declining faster, especially in areas with intensive agriculture...Overall drops in bird population, measured from 1987 to 2021, were sharpest in warm and warming areas, suggesting that climate change may play a role."

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Governors are promising lower power bills. Here’s the only credible path to deliver. If we treat every new megawatt like it must be served with new poles, wires, substations and peakers, we will lock in another decade of rate shock, write Jigar Shah and Arnab Pal from Deploy Action.

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Gigantic Form Energy battery to power Google data center in Minnesota The startup has struck a deal with Xcel Energy to build a 30 gigawatt-hour battery plant that will deliver clean energy, round the clock, to a Google…

Canary Media: Pittsburgh Region Form Energy To Power Google A.I. Data Center In Minnesota [Why Don’t We Consider These In PA?] www.canarymedia.com/articles/bat...

Underdog Democrats lean into data center concerns Democrats in particular have seized on the prospect of rising energy costs in the fight for control of Washington and state capitals.

I'm quoted in this @politico.com piece.

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Underdog Democrats lean into data center concerns politi.co/4tTnJEb

Midterm underdogs rally around data center politics Democrats in particular have seized on the prospect of rising energy costs in the fight for control of Washington and state capitals.

Spoke to @eenews.bsky.social/@politico.com about the political implications of data centers.
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Stuck in Line Hi friends,

Clean energy is ready—but it’s stuck in line. Projects wait years in the interconnection queue, even as demand from AI and data centers surges. That bottleneck risks fossil lock-in and higher costs. If we want cheaper, cleaner power, we need to fix the backlog: hboushey.substack.com/p/stuck-in-l...

Ditto PJM, and maybe even some governors and state legislatures.

Your periodic reminder that markets don’t want to build the things the Trump administration is pushing. That’s a good thing for the planet. And someday, we will again have a WH who isn’t afraid of competitive markets.

Could a New Illinois Bill Be a Blueprint for Curbing Data Centers’ Climate Impacts? - Inside Climate News As data centers drive up energy demand, water usage and utility bills, advocates seek to make companies mitigate their climate and economic impacts.

A new Illinois bill aims to reduce the climate and affordability harms of the data center boom.

Remote Sensing-Based Monitoring Networks for the Next Generation of Energy and Environmental Policymaking Energy policy research from the University of Pennsylvania

I wrote a report about the potential of remote sensing for better environmental policy for @kleinmanenergy.bsky.social

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Bravo, Philly!

PA data center tax break expected to cost $2B Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration estimates the annual cost of the tax break will rise by hundreds of millions of dollars in the coming years.

New: Pennsylvania lawmakers approved a sales tax exemption for data centers in 2021. Its exact cost is unknown, but new estimates released by the Shapiro administration this month say it will have cost the commonwealth $2 billion by 2031. W/ @katehuangpu.bsky.social

E.P.A. Plans to Loosen Mercury Rules for Coal Plants, Documents Show

Make Neurotoxins Great Again.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/c...

YouTube video by Paul Krugman Now Trumpists are menacing economists

Something new: A short video responding to the Trump administration saying that economists whose studies aren’t what they want to hear should be “disciplined” www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzZd...

Efficiency, demand flexibility can meet growing data center loads — and do so cheaply: ACEEE Large utility programs provide energy efficiency for about $21/MWh, while new combined-cycle gas plants cost at least twice that, the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy said.

Utility Dive: American Council For An Energy-Efficient Economy Says Energy Efficiency, Demand Flexibility Can Meet Growing Data Center Loads - And Do It Cheaper Than Gas Which Is 2 to 5 Times More Expensive tinyurl.com/ympzkj5w

And grid managers, governors, legislators, and public utility commissioners must level up.

TL;DR

AI isn’t just a new load.

It’s a new grid participant.
• Training hits transmission
• Inference hits distribution
• Hybrid on-site power becomes standard

The future grid must be fast, flexible, local, and interactive — or it breaks.

Utilities have to change their culture.

Federal judge orders Trump admin to restore slavery exhibits to the President’s House The order does not give the federal government a deadline for restoring the President's House site.

BREAKING: federal judge orders the Trump admin to restore slavery exhibits to the President’s House.

The opinion opens with “As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s 1984 now existed…”

With @fallonroth.bsky.social

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The US is exporting huge amounts of natural gas. Will it cost… The country must produce record levels of gas to keep pace with surging LNG exports, or the mismatch in supply and demand could spike domestic energy…

Ramping up LNG exports = ramping up domestic enegy prices. Especially so in gas-dependent PJM.

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Offshore wind showed up big during the East Coast’s brutal cold America’s two utility-scale offshore wind farms performed as well as gas power plants and better than coal in January — including during Winter Storm Fern.

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The lying is out of control. People need to go to prison. | Will Bunch The outrageous lies of the Trump regime, from ICE shootings to a commerce secretary's Epstein falsehoods, must be punished.

Gift article: "We won’t get anything resembling democracy until we clear that widespread debris, and that means sending a bunch of these liars to prison, because they are the real criminals. America desperately needs truth and consequences."

Amid rising concerns over data centers, Penn’s supercomputer aims for sustainability Located approximately 30 miles from Penn’s campus, Betty was designed to handle artificial intelligence programs that can interpret large datasets and produce increasingly refined results. 

I spoke with The Daily Pennsylvanian about @upenn.edu's supercomputer and data centers.

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