Justine Calma

As much as two thirds of the climate benefits the project was supposed to provide for high-profile customers — including Volkswagen, Gucci, and Nestle — never materialized, according to a recent investigation. The failure casts even more doubt over whether sustainability claims companies make about offsetting their emissions are actually legitimate.

US power grids aren’t moving fast enough to keep up with the sudden rise in electricity demand from AI. Data center developers are forging ahead anyway, adding their own gas turbines and fuel cells.

It’s supporting new solar and wind farms across Greece, Italy, Latvia, Poland, and Romania that are supposed to add 650 megawatts of renewable energy capacity to local power grids.

With the government still shut down, the Trump administration announced more layoffs across the already decimated federal workforce. That includes EPA employees who worked on battery recycling and safety, plastics reduction, recycling and composting programs, and collecting solid waste data, according to the EPA union.

That’s according to a recent Bloomberg analysis of wholesale electricity prices across the US, which has more data centers than any other country.