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Sage Van Wing/OPBA new report estimates that California’s data centers are driving increases in electricity use, water demand and pollution even as lawmakers stall on oversight. -
Tom Banse/Oregon Capital ChronicleNuclear is mostly absent from a new energy strategy outlining how the state will meet growing power demand, reduce greenhouse gas pollution.
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A boom in data centers and the end of federal vehicle emissions standards means Oregon will fail to meet its 2035 greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal by two years, according to an analysis completed this month. But state officials pushing to drastically cut carbon emissions say it’s not too late to get back on track. -
A secretive appropriations process killed or reined in three bills regulating the use of pricing algorithms. A bill to monitor data center electricity use was also culled. -
Data centers, electrifying transit and buildings and producing hydrogen will drive demand, according to the Northwest Power and Conservation Council. -
Oregon lawmakers are considering a bill that would require certain large energy users, like data centers and cryptocurrency businesses, to pay their share for electricity use. -
A spate of new bills in California and other states would protect consumers from electricity rate hikes that subsidize data centers. -
Small modular nuclear reactors would be located in southeast Washington.
