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Power for the machine. Grid capacity and interconnection queues, data-center and AI training load, nuclear restarts and small modular reactors, fossil plants held past their retirement dates, and who ends up paying for the buildout on their utility bill.

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An Amazon data center could have the worst polluting power plant in the country
17:53 ENERGY ENVIRONMENT INFRASTRUCTURE the-verge
New energy platform assists data centers run off-grid and capture 90% of carbon
15:37 CLIMATE-TECH ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE interesting-engineering
World’s Largest 12.8 GWh Battery Storage Cluster Activated in China
10:11 AI ENERGY GREEN-TECH cleantechnica
Natural Gas Dominates PJM’s First Reformed Grid Queue, Driven by Data-Center Demand
08:55 ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE inside-climate-news
Citylink to supply waste heat from data center servers to district heating network in Wrocław, Poland
09:48 ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE URBANISM data-center-dynamics
SpaceX, Tesla plan $16.8B Terafab factory in Texas to meet 1TW computing demand
21:06 ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE SPRAWL interesting-engineering
China commissions world’s largest data center campus built for 2 GW, 1M accelerators
20:32 ENERGY GREEN-TECH INFRASTRUCTURE interesting-engineering
Officials in Washington city introduce data center moratorium to try and block 20MW project
15:00 ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE SPRAWL data-center-dynamics
The left and right agree on one thing: no data centers
14:00 ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE SPRAWL the-verge
Two Fossil Fuel Companies Are Betting Big on Data Centers
10:30 ENERGY SPRAWL wired
Samsung and Mousterian move ahead with floating datacenter for Texas
15:47 ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE SPRAWL the-register
AWS pulls out of planned data center campus next to Maryland nuclear plant
11:54 ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE SPRAWL data-center-dynamics
Coming to Some of Pennsylvania’s Most Picturesque Places: Data Centers
08:55 ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE SPRAWL inside-climate-news
PJM’s big new data center plan: Make the states figure it out
07:30 ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE SPRAWL canary-media
Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demand
20:34 AI ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE ars-technica
Rate of play: How US states are changing the rules around data centers and power
16:00 ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE REGULATION data-center-dynamics
SMR-300 reactors could deliver 680 MW of carbon-free power to US data centers
15:47 AI ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE interesting-engineering
Texas says data centers must pass an audit before connecting to the grid
15:33 ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE the-verge
Greater London Authority to prioritize “clean, green and efficient” data centers in the future, could build them on grey belt land
12:21 ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE URBANISM data-center-dynamics
How Data Centers Broke American Politics
10:00 ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE SPRAWL wired
Texas governor directs PUCT, ERCOT to audit all data centers seeking grid connection
09:30 ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE REGULATION data-center-dynamics
Data centers take center stage in Wisconsin governor’s race
07:30 ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE SPRAWL canary-media
Multi-fuel power system lets one engine run on ammonia and natural gas for data centers
23:47 AI ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE interesting-engineering
China expands quantum technology to protect power grid with smarter fault detection
21:02 ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE QUANTUM interesting-engineering
Thermodynamic smart chips win $75M deal to beat GPUs and drastically slash power use
18:37 AI ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE interesting-engineering
Trump-linked American Bitcoin president Matt Prusak departs for Giga Energy
15:24 CRYPTO ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE coindesk
DCD News: July review
14:52 ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE SPRAWL data-center-dynamics
Virginia lays groundwork to combine more solar with farming
07:30 ENERGY GREEN-TECH SPRAWL canary-media
Meta boosts AI data center capex, forecasts $130-145bn spend
16:45 AI CORPORATE ENERGY data-center-dynamics
100 driverless oilfield trucks planned for Permian Basin as US firms scale fleet by 2027
13:05 AUTOMATION ENERGY LOGISTICS interesting-engineering
Bitcoin mining difficulty shrinks 14% from this year's high as plunging revenues force operators to pivot
15:51 CRYPTO ENERGY coindesk
Reading List 08/01/26
12:04 DRONES ENERGY GEOPOLITICS construction-physics
What Happens When The AI Power Industry Collapses?
03:57 AI ENERGY PLATFORMS cleantechnica
Amazon’s 2025 emissions jump as AI brings ‘momentum and complexity’: report
14:51 ENERGY ENVIRONMENT NEOCORP supply-chain-dive
Why ‘next wave’ data center markets are at the heart of Europe's fight for data sovereignty
14:00 ENERGY GEOPOLITICS INFRASTRUCTURE data-center-dynamics
Musk confirms fourth SpaceXAI data center in Memphis, company starts removing 'illegal' gas turbines
13:42 AI ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE data-center-dynamics
Amazon, Duke Energy accused of evading Clean Air Act at under-development data center in Hamlet, North Carolina
13:35 ENERGY ENVIRONMENT SPRAWL data-center-dynamics
UK wants datacenters to pay a fee for grid connection requests
09:15 ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE REGULATION the-register
Crusoe partners with Aalo on nuclear-powered AI data center deployment at Idaho National Lab
14:50 AI ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE data-center-dynamics
PowerPlay AI, Sharon AI plan 400MW behind-the-meter gas-powered data center in Abilene, Texas
13:20 ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE SPRAWL data-center-dynamics
Beetaloo Energy partners with Halliburton to develop natural gas plant for proposed data center in Australia - report
12:43 ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE SPRAWL data-center-dynamics
Biggest battery east of the Mississippi will help power AI complex
20:30 AI ENERGY SPRAWL canary-media
Data Centers Are Easy to Build. Powering Them Is Complicated, Slow, and Expensive
14:03 AI ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE 404-media
In Pausing Data Centers, Minnesota Courts Did What Local Officials Wouldn’t
10:00 ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE SPRAWL next-city
UK AI Growth Zone program for data centers in limbo after DSIT closure
09:16 ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE SPRAWL data-center-dynamics
It’s official: Data centers are slowing America’s shift away from coal
08:45 AI ENERGY ENVIRONMENT grist
Meta and BlackRock team up for data center in El Paso, Texas
07:57 CORPORATE ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE data-center-dynamics
Families Want Lower Costs & Less Pollution: Public Interest Groups Push Washington’s Largest Utility to Lower Rate Increases and Meet Clean Energy Laws
01:34 ENERGY GREEN-TECH cleantechnica
Willie Nelson: Data Centers Suck
21:45 ENERGY ENVIRONMENT pitchfork
Solar-powered EV carshare pilot launches in Massachusetts
07:30 ENERGY canary-media