Tag: Climate Solutions
Can Geothermal Cooling Tame Data Centers’ Energy Appetite?
The world is increasingly run by data centers — huge, anonymous buildings that gobble up electricity and belch heat like angry dragons. Each click, stream, or swipe piles up more data in racks upon racks of humming servers. Yet few people realize just how thirsty these data dragons really are. … [continued]
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Geothermal & Heat Pumps Are Quietly Undermining Fossil Industrial Heat
Industrial heat has always been the awkward uncle at the decarbonization dinner table. Loud, a bit old-fashioned, and responsible for about 20% of global carbon emissions, but nobody really wants to talk about him. The climate conversation has been dominated by glitzier topics like electric vehicles and green hydrogen, the … [continued]
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Farmers and small business owners were promised financial help for energy upgrades. They’re still waiting for the money.
By Emily Jones, Katie Myers, Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco and Izzy Ross
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist, BPR, a public radio station serving western North Carolina, WABE, Atlanta’s NPR station, WBEZ, a public radio station serving the Chicago metropolitan region, and Interlochen Public Radio in Northern Michigan.
A Chicago church won’t be planting fruit trees this spring as climate funds remain frozen
By Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco, WBEZ
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Startup Introduces New Climate Change Tool For Rural Electric Cooperatives
Rural electric cooperatives are among the utilities that can benefit from low cost, AI-enabled guidance on strategic responses to climate change.
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