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Energy Tax Benefits for Data Centers: In Brief
This Congressional Research Service brief examines how data center owners may benefit from federal tax credits and deductions aimed at increasing clean electricity supply or improving energy efficiency, including the […]
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Climate & Health Impacts and Messaging of AI Data Centers in Communities by Breathe Project
AI data centers could add 24–44 million tons of CO₂e annually by 2030. Covers diesel backup generator risks, water consumption projections, and model zoning ordinances for Pennsylvania communities.
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A fraction of proposed data centers will get built. Utilities are wising up. | Utility Dive
Speculative data center interconnection requests flood U.S. utility queues at five to 10 times the rate of actual construction, distorting grid planning and raising the risk of costly overbuilding that […]
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An Act amending the act of March 4, 1971 (P.L.6, No.2), known as the Tax Reform Code of 1971, in Computer Data Center Equipment Incentive Program, further providing for application for certification and for separation of facilities, providing for additional eligibility requirements, further providing for notification, for revocation of certification, for application for certification and for separation of facilities, providing for additional eligibility requirements and further providing for notification and records and for revocation of certification. (SB 1297, PA)
Adds requirement for data centers to, by 2030, purchase 100% of their energy from cleaners energy sources and invest in environmental management and energy efficiency measures to provide systemwide benefits […]
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Electric grid faces political roadblocks as it struggles with data center demand
Surging data center power demand collides with rollbacks of renewable energy incentives and years-long gas turbine backlogs. In South Texas, a lignite coal plant transitions to a 400-megawatt solar farm […]
Exposing AI Data Center Threats and Harms