“The numbers that matter most are still secret,” said Monika Gerhart of the Gulf States Renewable Energy Industries Association. Nearly all observers agree that Alabama’s new data center policies released this week are an improvement over the state’s old rules, which treat massive, power-hungry data centers like any other large industrial operation…
Source: Inside Climate News | By Dennis Pillion
Inside Climate News
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