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More Domestic Chip-Making Means More ‘Forever Chemicals’
Each modern chip fab requires 200 to 300 metric tons of PFA fluoropolymers — persistent "forever chemicals" linked to cancers and groundwater contamination. Chemours, the only U.S. manufacturer, plans up […]
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Cloudy With a Loss of Spending Control: How Data Centers Are Endangering State Budgets
This report by Good Jobs First reveals that at least 10 U.S. states lose over $100 million per year in tax revenue to data center sales and use tax exemptions, […]
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An act to repeal the sales and use tax exemption for data centers. (H1213, NC)
Repeals sales tax breaks for data centers.
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An act to reform North Carolina’s approach to integration of large-load electricity customers through amendment of the Public Utilities Act. (S1026, NC)
Requires public utilities to create large-load customer tariffs that ensure cost covering and insulate other customers from advantage or disadvantage due to commencement cessation of operations. Conditions to include: minimum […]
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Ratepayer and Resource Protection Act (H1063, NC)
Requires preconstruction disclosure from data centers to Utilities Commission, Department of Environmental Quality and local government, including projected electricity and water usage, cooling systems, and on-site clean power generation. Requires […]
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An act amending the utilities and tax laws relative to data centers. (H1180, NC)
Requires public utilities to create data center tariffs that ensure cost covering and protect other customers from increased rates and from risk of stranded costs due to lower consumption or […]
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Experts say utilities’ projected data center growth is speculative
Despite utilities in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina requesting roughly 10 GW of new generation capacity, independent modeling puts the most likely data center electricity need at 3.5 […]
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Impacts of Projected Data Center Growth and Emerging Uncertainties on Power Demand in the Southeast
Greenlink Analytics and Science for Georgia project data-center electricity demand in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina at 2.4 to 6.7 GW over five to six years. Utilities forecast […]
Exposing AI Data Center Threats and Harms