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Datacenters driving US clean energy growth while still threatening climate

fossil-fuel plants to accommodate the facilities, or are keeping ageing gas and coal plants online to meet the staggering demands of datacenters

Majority of US’s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land

fossil fuels, which unlike cleaner forms of energy require copious amounts of water to generate electricity. Such a trade-off is evident at Meta’s huge proposed datacenter, called Hyperion after the father

Nearly half of US children are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, report warns

fossil fuels such as methane gas and coal still account for a large portion of generation, the report said. In addition, many datacenters use dozens of large diesel-powered backup generators, which emit carcinogenic particulate