The AI industry is turning to an old energy favorite to bring its data centers online fast

Tech Insider : Economy, Business, Climate Crisis
A man stands in front of a natural gas plant that's flaring in Texas
A natural gas plant in Garden City, Texas.

Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Local data center opposition claims its latest victim: Oracle's Project Jupiter gas plant

Tech Insider : Politics, Business, Environment
Data Center Box Elder County Protest
Data centers are facing rising opposition from local communities.

Natalie Behring/Getty Images

Data centers in one nation are driving power demand like nowhere else

Tech Insider : Business
An aerial shot of a data center.
A new McKinsey report suggests data center demand is delaying the switch to low-carbon energy alternatives.

Business Wire/AP

Amazon invests in nuclear energy, hot on the heels of Google and Microsoft

Tech Insider
An image of X Energy's XE-100 nuclear reactors
An image from X-energy's website showing the design of its XE-100 nuclear reactor plants.

X Energy

A new carbon removal plant will absorb carbon dioxide 99,000 times faster than Earth's oceans

Tech Insider
Photo of a colorful coral reef underwater
The oceans absorb billions of tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The world would be a lot warmer without them.

mihtiander/Getty Images

What it will take to modernize the American grid and usher in the clean-energy revolution

Tech Insider
large transmission power lines
To reach a carbon-pollution-free grid by 2035, we'll need to build up to 10,100 miles of new transmission lines.

Anton Petrus

AI execs who urgently need more energy to power their tech revolution are turning to fossil fuels

Tech Insider
A row of computer servers in a data center
Demand for data centers is expected to grow as companies use AI, fueling a need for nonrenewable energy sources.

Jason Marz/Getty Images

The Fed needs to cut rates to help the struggling clean energy sector, Elizabeth Warren says

Tech Insider : Economy
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts at a hearing on Capitol Hill on January 11, 2024.
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.

Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images

Vast reserves of clean hydrogen fuel could be hiding beneath our feet

Tech Insider
four white gas tanks with blue H2 logos on a metal rack
Hydrogen could be a key fuel of the future.

Benoit Tessier/Reuters

Researchers just discovered a massive 'jacuzzi bubbling with almost pure hydrogen' — a lucrative source of clean energy

Tech Insider
Bulqizë chromite mine
The Bulqizë chromite mine just 25 miles east of Albania's capital Tirana contains a massive reservoir of hydrogen.

GENT SHKULLAKU/Getty Images

Subscribe to clean-energy