Data Center Pause Proposed for San Antonio Until Impacts Can Be Addressed
City utilities should require recycled water and ‘clean energy’ sources of all new data centers, Councilman Galvan says in request for a special meeting this month.
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Data Centers Generating 'Heat Islands,' Compounding the Hazards of Rising Global Temps
112 Degrees?! Deceleration investigation supports findings from two studies into data center heat islands, measuring downwind temps from a major data center complex at six degrees higher than upwind areas.
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Greg Harman
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Protestors Call for Shutting Down ICE’s New East San Antonio Detention Center—Before it Opens
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Greg Harman
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Data Centers Generating 'Heat Islands,' Compounding the Hazards of Rising Global Temps
112 Degrees?! Deceleration investigation supports findings from two studies into data center heat islands, measuring downwind temps from a major data center complex at six degrees higher than upwind areas.
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Greg Harman
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A Board Game of Climate Change Solutions? Yes, Please.
The complexity of our situation, including fossil fuel lobbying and risks of democratic collapse, are fully represented by the creators of 'Daybreak.' But winning the game is still within reach.
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Brownsville’s Saronic Autonomous War Plans Echo a Confederate’s Post-Civil War Profit-Seeking Killings
The ongoing ‘murder-suicide’ of our living Rio Grande Valley (ie. economic development) has the same billionaire overlord vibe as the slave-picked cotton profits fought for by ‘Rip’ Ford in 1865.
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Gaige Davila
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How To Celebrate a Falling Empire This Semiquincentennial
Plus: Why a non-unanimous decision on birthright citizenship should concern us all—and how we keep fighting when we want to give in to crippling fear, grief, and panic.
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Roxana Rojas
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FIFA & the Rise of Reuse
Seattle has a plan to address the proliferation of plastics. How can we replicate its successes in less eco-friendly cities and states?
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Dow Wants to Lead a Texas Nuclear Resurgence—and Data Centers Aren't Far Behind
The risks long associated with the U.S.'s aging fleet of nuclear reactors continue with a new generation of "advanced" designs proposed for Texas data centers and plastics manufacturers, longtime critics warned the seaside Seadrift community.
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Greg Harman
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The Billionaire's 'Betrayal' of Freeport, Texas, and Cameron Parish, Louisiana
'Parties in the ship channel and shrimping are over. Downtown is dead.' What went wrong started with industry promises.
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Gaige Davila
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'Is This Our Future?' San Antonio Data Center Hearing Smacks of Trolling by the State
Plus: Massive global data center study, Trump's fake oversight EO, accelerating surveillance of data center opposition, action opportunities, y más.
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Greg Harman
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CPS Energy Board Unravels its Climate Commitments as Data Center Power Demands Grow
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Greg Harman
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San Antonio Boosts its ‘Heat Resilience Playbook’ as Texas Cities Seek to Adapt to Rising Temps
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Greg Harman
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Thousands of Heat-Related Deaths Go Uncounted in Texas Each Year, New Research Finds
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Greg Harman
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