Water availability alone doesn't determine data center viability. Learn how NPDES permitting and Clean Water Act thermal discharge requirements can affect site selection, project timelines and cooling system design.
The UK announced a $63.5 million critical minerals investment, funding rare earth magnet manufacturing, recycling projects, and a new industry demand aggregation platform.
Trade tensions, AI infrastructure growth, and resource constraints are forcing executives to rethink assumptions about supply chains and competitive advantage.
EHS, facilities, procurement, and sustainability each left something unresolved in Q2. Here is what each function needs to close before the second half starts.
Capital stalled, compliance maps got harder, and supply chain pressure formalized. Executives who planned for Q2 resolution need a different framework going into the second half.
Vale reports a 25% productivity gain at its AI-integrated Conceição 2 plant in Brazil, with a 40% increase in direct reduction pellet feed output and a 26% drop in iron lost to waste.
Power is no longer just an operating cost. In 2026, electricity availability is shaping investment decisions, facility expansion, and corporate growth.
Climate litigation, conflicting regulations, and unresolved ownership rules are creating new obstacles for voluntary carbon markets just as corporate demand is expected to grow.
DOE selected TerraSpark Energy Campus in Grant County, West Virginia for up to $18.5 million to advance engineering and permitting for a 1.6 GW coal-with-carbon-capture project.
The Justice Department seeks dismissal of an NAACP Clean Air Act lawsuit against xAI, raising broader questions about enforcement authority and AI infrastructure.
In the 2024 through 2025 delivery year, PJM's capacity auction cleared at 28.92 USD per megawatt-day . The 2025 through 2026 auction increased drastically to 269.92 USD, and the 2026 through 2027 …
Climate policy uncertainty is affecting firm-level investment, employment, and R&D as a material financial risk. Companies managing it best are treating it as a capital strategy problem.
A Rhode Island bill would reopen questions about utility-owned generation, storage, reliability, and who should build the power system needed for demand growth.
Companies are now accountable for emissions and environmental risk in supplier facilities they do not own. Most sustainability programs were not built for that scope.
Two Arizona rate cases approved increases of up to 300% for small rural water systems with aging infrastructure, reflecting a national pattern Pew and AWWA research puts at $2.1 trillion in need by 2050.
PJM and Talen Energy have filed at FERC to extend the Brandon Shores and H.A. Wagner reliability-must-run agreement to May 2031, citing transmission delays driven largely by data center load growth.
Twenty-one percent of supply chain leaders still operate without real-time visibility into disruptions affecting their suppliers
When NV Energy chose to divert power to newly built data centers, Liberty Utilities was left with less than a year to find a new electricity source for 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents. The real culprit isn't data centers — it's a centralized grid that wasn't built for modern energy demands, and a decade of missed opportunities to build local generation capacity.
AI growth is reshaping data center design. A new framework gives operators a clearer path for managing power, cooling and uptime.
Companies that map their full supply chain typically find more than they expected: hidden concentration, environmental exposure several tiers deep, and risk that travels farther than anyone modeled.