Pesky Penalties

On September 17, the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee unanimously passed the bipartisan Digital Coast Reauthorization Act, which would reauthorize the Digital Coast program through 2030.

Data centers' drain on electricity and water and residents’ complaints of noise and rising utility bills aer reaching county leaders as those developments spread across the country. 

On September 29, the U.S. Departments of the Interior (DOI), Energy (DOE) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced coordinated actions to expand domestic coal production and coal-fired energy generation.