Why Sardinians Are Fighting the Renewable Energy Transition
Why Sardinians Are Fighting the Renewable Energy Transition

“Not in my backyard” is the rallying cry of citizens everywhere resisting projects proposed for their locality. Whether it’s affordable housing, a waste treatment plant, or a new data center, they may recognize the benefit of the activity. They just d…

Sardinia’s Ancient Reasons for Rejecting a Clean Energy Future
Sardinia’s Ancient Reasons for Rejecting a Clean Energy Future

“Why are you here?” Fabrizio Pilo, an electrical engineer, asks me as we sit in an outdoor café near his home in Cagliari, an ancient city on the island of Sardinia. It’s a fair question. I’m a journalist from the United States. I’d just stepped off m…

Who needs data centers in space when they can float offshore?

Offshore wind developer Aikido will deploy a small data center beneath a floating offshore wind turbine later this year.

Google’s new 1.9GW clean energy deal includes massive 100-hour battery

Form Energy’s iron-air batteries will store wind and solar power to keep the data center running 24/7.

Trump administration’s legal setbacks are good news for offshore wind — and the grid

Three offshore wind projects under construction on the U.S. East Coast are back to building after judges rebuked the Department of the Interior’s actions.

Offshore wind developers sue Trump administration for halting $25B in projects

The lawsuits seek to reverse the Department of the Interior’s stop-work order which affected five offshore wind projects off the Eastern Seaboard.

Trump admin halts 6 GW of offshore wind leases again

The move is the latest attempt by the Trump administration to delay the construction of 6 gigawatts of offshore wind near a hotspot of data center development.