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Dominion's November 15 filing with the SCC shows future data center growth will drive up utility spending by about 20%.

Eight years ago this week, I wrote a column titled, “Why Trump won’t stop the clean energy revolution.” Calling global warming a hoax, businessman and reality TV star Donald J. Trump had just been elected with a promise to save coal jobs and pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord. Climate activists were deeply distraught then, as now. I wrote in 2016, “Reading the news Wednesday morning was like waking up from a nightmare to discover that there really is a guy coming after you with a meat cleaver.”

Eight years ago this week, I wrote a column titled, “Why Trump won’t stop the clean energy revolution.” Calling global warming a hoax, businessman and reality TV star Donald J. Trump had just been elected with a promise to save coal jobs and pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord. Climate activists were deeply distraught then, as now. I wrote in 2016, “Reading the news Wednesday morning was like waking up from a nightmare to discover that there really is a guy coming after you with a meat cleaver.”

Dominion's 2024 integrated resource plan (IRP) shows no inclination to meet the carbon-cutting requirements of the Virginia Clean Economy Act

One utility in Ohio has proposed a requirement that data centers commit to 10-year service contracts requiring them to pay at least 90% of the cost of the electricity they ask for.

It’s out of sight and out of mind, and it might just be killing people. For decades, American factories have been sending their wastewater to municipal sewage treatment plants across the country, which handle it along with the effluent from other industries, homes and businesses. At the other end of the process, the separated and […]

Is this technology the answer to the surging demand for electricity from data centers and artificial intelligence?

Commentary: Immigration does all the things that people alarmed about low birth rates say we need: fills schools with children, bolsters the workforce, and keeps contributions flowing to Social Security and Medicare. 

Unfortunately, Amazon’s 100% renewable energy announcement is so full of asterisks it looks like a starry night.

Across the country, utilities are struggling to meet AI’s increased energy demand, and looking to fossil fuels to fill the gap.