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North Carolina co-ops turn to batteries as utility bills climb and storm fears linger
3+ week, 1+ day ago (474+ words) After Hurricane Helene left more than 700,000 Duke Energy customers in North Carolina without electricity, rising power bills are sharpening a question for many households: how would they handle the next major outage? In parts of North Carolina not served by…...
Developer seeks annexation to build 'medium’ data center in Southeast Raleigh
4+ week, 1+ day ago (520+ words) The Raleigh City Council will decide Tuesday whether to annex a piece of land in Southeast Raleigh where developers plan to build a 100,000-square-foot data center. The property at 3101 Jones Sausage Road is about 14 acres and owned by “B3-SFRE JSR…...
$20B North Carolina Data Center Canceled Amid Moratorium Debate
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (457+ words) Plans for a nearly $20B data center campus in North Carolina are on ice as local lawmakers consider a development moratorium. Energy Storage Solutions has withdrawn its offer to buy the 28 acres for the project inside a massive shovel-ready site identified…...
Data Centers Are Making North Carolina Hotter, New Study Reveals
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (338+ words) Your summer electric bill keeps climbing, and now researchers know one reason why. A new University of Cambridge study analyzing satellite data from 2004 to 2024 found that AI-focused data centers create significant heat islands, raising local land surface temperatures an average…...
Central North Carolina communities pause to consider data center development
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (754+ words) Data centers are top of mind for county and municipal leaders in central North Carolina as we see an AI boom across the world. North Carolina is already home to several massive data centers, and many more are attempting to…...
The hidden costs of North Carolina’s data center boom
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (1516+ words) The windowless buildings rising across North Carolina look more like warehouses than engines of climate change. Across the state, proposals for hyperscale data centers built to support artificial intelligence and cloud computing are driving unprecedented demand for electricity and water....