With higher electric prices, due in part to surging energy demand from data centers, energy affordability is becoming a household conversation again, and there is an increasing need for ...

Bonn’s technical talks mostly stalled, leaving adaptation finance, the Adaptation Fund, mitigation ambition, and carbon markets largely unresolved heading into the UN climate summit in Antalya, Turkey ...

Data centers also affect public health. Impacts include carbon emissions from natural gas and coal power plants that are being built or kept online to power data centers. Data centers are also ...

Lithium spodumene is ground and crushed to separate the lithium from its ore. Acid and solvent are applied to leach out the ore, leaving behind pure lithium. Similarly, in the case of brine water, ...

See all of our articles on the impacts of data centers, including their energy needs, water usage, noise pollution, and contribution to higher energy bills: One promising solution is to establish ...

The potential negative impacts of data center expansion on carbon emissions, water usage, and electricity bills are relatively well documented. But their potential PFAS pollution, both direct and ...

Data centers emit sounds from the humming of cooling systems, rumbling of diesel generators, and whirring of fans, which can be heard for hundreds of feet around them. Noise pollution is regulated at ...

As data centers expand nationwide, utilities are receiving hundreds of gigawatts in interconnection requests, necessitating significant infrastructure investments. Natural gas power plants are being ...

See all of our articles on the impacts of data centers, including their energy needs, water usage, noise pollution, and contribution to higher energy bills: To meet this unprecedented increase in ...

Cement, the main building block of concrete, is responsible for about 8% of global carbon dioxide emissions. Limestone calcined clay cement, algae-based bio-cement, and carbon-negative cement from ...

Throughout the UN climate summit (COP30)—which officially runs from November 10 to November 21, 2025—a number of agreements, declarations, and collaborations will be announced on a range of climate, ...

This list will compile the U.S. federal and elected officials who attended the UN climate summit, COP30, in Brazil. It includes leaders who traveled to Belém, Brazil, as well as those who engaged in ...