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06/12/2026

CNN wants to hear from citizens who live near data centers.

CNN is looking to learn more about how the data center buildout is reshaping America. We want to hear from people living in areas where data centers are being built.

06/12/2026

https://www.winchesterstar.com/winchester_star/area-legislators-sound-off-against-another-proposed-transmission-line/article_a96d56f9-c107-548d-972f-7d3baa5b2747.html

State Sen. Timmy French (R-Shenandoah County), Del. Bill Wiley (R-Frederick County) and Del.Delores Oates (R-Warren County) released a joint statement on Thursday opposing a proposed 260-mile, 765-kilovolt (kV) transmission line

06/12/2026

High voltage power lines present a danger to aviation safety and birds, killing millions of birds a year according to the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

Australia's Gold Coast has quietly moved sand since 1986, helping protect beaches from erosion and storm damage.

06/11/2026

The Maryland Public Service Commission is accepting public comments on the proposed MPRP procedural schedule through Wed 6/17. ANYONE can comment. This is your opportunity to weigh in directly with the Commission. We encourage you to include two key concerns in your remarks:

🔹 PSEG has proposed no deadline for completing its outstanding environmental studies — without one, the full scope of this project's impacts cannot be properly assessed.

🔹 The proposed schedule cuts public hearings from two weeks to one across three counties, limiting the opportunity for all affected residents to be heard.

Comments may be mailed through the postal service or submitted online. They must be RECEIVED by Wed 6/17:

Andrew S. Johnston, Executive Secretary
Maryland Public Service Commission
William Donald Schaefer Tower
6 St. Paul Street, 16th Floor
Baltimore, Maryland 21202

Please note that comments must reference "Case No. 9773."

Updated instructions on how to submit comments electronically is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E6HPK8A_fnJT1LrH1YOp3vnbLKDpEG19/view?usp=sharing

Thank you for continuing to fight for Maryland's farms, forests, and families. 💚

06/11/2026

https://www.audubon.org/news/why-building-transmission-along-highways-better-birds

Audubon and partners work to prioritize building transmission along existing rights-of-way.

06/11/2026

Excellent article outlining PJM's grid upgrade plans to serve Northern Virginia Data Centers including MPRP. Thank you to the MD Maryland Office of People's Counsel for calling them out.

Maryland’s only remaining coal-fired power plant is likely to keep operating through mid-2031 — six years after it was set to close — although the plan technically still requires approval from federal regulators.

06/11/2026

Worldwide, three-quarters of people could face drought impacts by 2050 all while datacenters use 9.3tn liters of water in the coming decade, enough to meet the drinking water needs of the planet’s human population for over a year, the United Nations has estimated.

Even when some withdrawn water is recycled by datacenters, “large-scale withdrawals can strain aquifers and river systems, particularly in arid or groundwater-depleted regions”, a recent UN report warned.

“We need to rethink our relationship with water because at the moment there is just this unrestricted demand everywhere,” said Abbott. “We are in systemic water deficit almost everywhere on the planet.”

Guardian analysis finds facilities to be built in some of the driest areas as outcry grows over water needed to power AI

06/11/2026

The company's proposal is a kind of "grid-enhancing technology," a family of hardware and software that could squeeze more capacity out of the nation's increasingly congested grid. These solutions have the potential to save the nation billions of dollars in excess power costs by unclogging transmission bottlenecks that prevent cheap electricity, much of it from wind and solar farms, from reaching places that need it. That could help curb skyrocketing utility bills for households and businesses.

The problem in the U.S. today is that these tools are almost exclusively deployed as pilot projects on one power line at a time. To achieve the big savings, multiple utilities and grid operators will need to use this tech in a coordinated way across the country's region-spanning transmission networks. But although sticking with the status quo may be simpler, all U.S. utilities and grid operators are under federal mandate to integrate grid-enhancing technologies into how they bring new power generation online and make long-term plans for expanding their grids — and to find near-term ways to manage strains caused by power demand from data centers.

A major grid-tech company is asking the Trump administration to fund a project it says could significantly boost the nation’s ability to move power around — without building a single new transmission tower or line. Open Access Technology International (OATI) is a Minneapolis-based firm whose sof...

06/11/2026

Recently a friend said to me "Data Centers may be necessary to our National Security and technological advancement, but is anyone asking how many data centers we need? This is a runaway industry that requires regulation due to it's impact on our national energy grid, water supply, land use and citizen protection from noise and heat pollution. Currently data centers are not required to report how much energy and water they require, monitoring of noise and heat production. The billion dollar corporations that operate data centers are racing to surpass their competitors at our expense. Consider other monopolies in railway, airline and gas and other industries that are now regulated to protect public safety.

Many states are declaring moratoriums to slow data center growth in the absence of meaningful federal regulation. The handshake agreement by the industry recently regarding energy costs is not enough. The issue requires a national strategy addressing the need and proposing phased growth in tightly regulated areas. Otherwise this runaway train is speeding forward.

What to know about the local backlash against the booming data center industry, the era of me-first energy and more climate news.

06/11/2026

https://newhampshirebulletin.com/2026/06/09/5-ways-data-centers-endanger-their-local-communities-and-the-country-as-a-whole/

Every internet search, streamed video, and AI-generated response depends on a data center somewhere. Driven by rapid growth in artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and cryptocurrency, data centers have become the backbone of the modern digital economy. But though their key role is in enabling v...