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Eighty-six megawatts of renewable energy will be sourced from a Kanawha County solar project and delivered to Google's Putnam County data center via the energy grid.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsEvery week, the Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom’s Bill Burton and meteorologist Tawana Andrew break down what we know - and what we don't - about the climate and weather in the region. This week, we're talking about when different areas of the country have their hottest days.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsCourt challenges by conservation groups to a state air quality permit as well as to redactions in the permit application were dismissed last week on procedural grounds.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsElon Musk’s xAI runs one of the nation’s largest data centers in Memphis. It’s powered by about 60 gas turbines that emit a loud, unsettling noise.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsNoise pollution has reached dangerous levels for residents living near the Memphis-Mississippi border. That’s the home of Elon Musk’s X-AI data center campus that runs Grok, the AI chatbot for the social platform X, formerly known as Twitter. For the Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, WPLN’s Caroline Eggers reports on what’s becoming an emerging model of data center – and unchecked noise pollution.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe state is looking for volunteers for an annual cleanup day for the Kanawha River.
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