Believer in @ClimatePower, forever health care obsessed, Sooner bred lover of all kittens and proud alum of Obama admin.
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Lori Lodes retweeted
needed video to believe he actually said this 9 days before an election.
Lori Lodes retweeted
Q: I live in Michigan outside a new data center. We are exposed to constant noise. Being outside is unbearable. The buzzing can be heard even with our windows closed at all times. Our two small children cannot sleep. What are you doing about this problem?
Vance: I do care a lot about this. Data centers can be good.
Lori Lodes retweeted
Utilities are spending billions to provide power to data centers.
That's why our team at Cleanview spent the last month mapping every data center in America to the utility that will, or already does, provide its electricity.
Given the impact of the data center buildout on America's economy and power grid, you would think this data already existed. And it sort of did.
Publicly traded utilities disclose their data center pipelines in SEC filings, but they often don’t break down those numbers by the stage of development.
Utilities announce deals with hyperscalers, but they don’t share the total amount of power that will be consumed or when it will ramp.
Permits often show connections between data centers and utilities, but they are scattered in thousands of documents.
Over the last month, we went through thousands of these documents to map connections between ~4,000 data centers in Cleanview to utilities and grid operators.
Then we mapped utilities to their parent companies, which are often some of the largest publicly traded companies in America.
All of this data is now available in our platform, CSV exports, and API. If you’d like to learn more about Cleanview's data center tracker and this new feature, send us a note.
Lori Lodes retweeted
Trump’s core 2024 promise was bringing down costs by being the energy president — “when you bring down energy costs, everything else falls.”
The story of 2026 is that his energy policy, killing clean energy to make us dependent on oil, gas, and coal, has been a massive failure.
Lori Lodes retweeted
#TXSen: D candidate James Talarico is up on TV with this spot hitting Kan Paxton on his support for data centers --
Talarico walking and talking:
"Ken Paxton is selling off Texas, our land, our water, our communities. Anything to make a buck. He gave data centers billions in special tax breaks and they gave him nearly half a million in campaign contributions"
Lori Lodes retweeted
@ClimatePower has been talking about this awhile and they are right! And the research and polling confirms it all!
💬 What’s in your group chat?
@ChuckRocha on @CNNThisMorning broke down why AI data centers and high energy costs are increasingly becoming a central topic for Latino Voters for this upcoming midterm season. Take a listen 🎧
#affordability #datacenters #latinovote
Lori Lodes retweeted
A phenomenal moment in the Senate.
Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta.
Smith denies it.
Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury.
Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland.
Watch the whole thing:
Lori Lodes retweeted
the Fuel Clock shows Americans have paid $74.4 billion more on gasoline & $47.5 billion more on diesel since March 1 compared to a year ago. Total cost will hit $122 billion today. also updated the state map where you can find out how much more you're paying. link in my profile.
Lori Lodes retweeted
This ad is both incredibly illegal and politically asinine.
Kudos to everyone involved.
The U.S. Government is up on TV with this spot --
It aired nationally on FOX yesterday during Illinois at #7 Ohio State and also during Fox News Sunday this morning
Lori Lodes retweeted
Republicans voted to give special tax breaks to AI companies that build data centers in rural America.
Here is the House Ways and Means Committee--the House's tax writing committee--touting One Big Beautiful Bill's special expansion of Opportunity Zones for rural areas as a way to expand investment in "hyperscale data centers".
waysandmeans.house.gov/2025/…
Lori Lodes retweeted
Georgia audited its own data center tax breaks and found that the state gave up $474 million in sales taxes in one year—and got back just $41 million from the industry. At least 38 states have deals like this. (It's not clear whether all that money the state waived was needed to attract the construction: in Georgia's case, by the state's own estimate, 70% of the data center construction would have happened anyway.)
Lori Lodes retweeted
Fox News on Climate Power’s data centers memo:
Tomi Lahren: GOP is gonna need to get better messaging on this issue or the left is gonna run away with it, and unfortunately if you look at the cross section of Americans who are concerned about data centers, it's a pretty big one.
Exclusive: Climate group presses Dems to seize on data center backlash axios.com/2026/08/25/climate…
Lori Lodes retweeted
Exclusive: Climate group presses Dems to seize on data center backlash axios.com/2026/08/25/climate…
Lori Lodes retweeted
Just published my interview with @jasminewsun on the data center backlash.
She makes a key point here. It's much more about people not trusting the huge tech firms ("big corporation scary") than anything involving AI x-risk ("big model scary") or even necessarily job losses.
Lori Lodes retweeted
SCOOP: James Talarico's campaign has hired a new deputy political director
It's Jacob Smith, a leg aide for John Cornyn
"That is unheard of," one GOP operative said of the hire
w/ legends @reesejgorman @alweaver22 notus.org/campaigns/james-ta…
Lori Lodes retweeted
Enten: "Even a majority of Republicans -- 52% -- that loyal Republican base who has been through thick and thin with Donald John Trump, even they have turned against the president on gas prices ... these are just atrocious numbers"
Lori Lodes retweeted
Amazon is backing a 7.65 GW gas plant in West Texas.
I sorted all 14,036 operating U.S. power plants by size to see where that lands. It doesn't land anywhere (nothing on the American grid is that big).
This week I found permits and satellite photos suggesting Amazon is backing what could be the largest gas power plant ever built in the US.
I just got off the phone with the company and confirmed they're behind it.
Amazon confirmed that it has acquired a site in Pecos County, Texas called GW Ranch, where it plans to build an AI data center campus powered by a 7.65 GW gas plant. It would initially be entirely disconnected from the Texas electric grid.
In January, GW Ranch received a permit from the state of Texas allowing the gas power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
If the project emitted that much CO2, it would be the largest single source of pollution in the United States—emitting more greenhouse gases than the country’s largest coal plant. It’s worth noting that companies rarely emit as much as their permits allow.
The paper trail linking Amazon to GW Ranch surfaced earlier this week when Amazon filed three construction permits with the state. The permits showed Amazon’s plans to build three data center buildings with construction beginning immediately.
Cleanview reviewed satellite imagery to look for the project and discovered that land clearing had begun at the site described in GW Ranch’s air permit records.
We reached out to Amazon and the company confirmed it had acquired the GW Ranch site and plans to buy power from the plant, which is being developed by Pacifico Energy.
Partnering with GW Ranch marks Amazon’s first major investment in an off-grid data center. In doing so, the company joins Microsoft, Google, and Meta who have all invested significantly in natural gas power this year.
Data center developers have announced nearly 60 behind-the-meter gas power projects since the beginning of 2025 with a combined capacity of 90 GW, according to Cleanview’s latest report.
Not all of these projects will be built, but in recent months a growing share of them have begun construction and signed key tenant deals.
Amazon’s project in West Texas is unlikely to be its last bet on large-scale natural gas power. Yesterday, the company confirmed that it is in talks with the developers of a 4.5 GW gas power plant in Homer City, Pennsylvania.
When the developers of the Homer City gas plant first announced their project, they said it would be the largest gas power plant in America.
Now it’s just one of many giga-scale power plants that have been proposed across the country.
Lori Lodes retweeted
This week I found permits and satellite photos suggesting Amazon is backing what could be the largest gas power plant ever built in the US.
I just got off the phone with the company and confirmed they're behind it.
Amazon confirmed that it has acquired a site in Pecos County, Texas called GW Ranch, where it plans to build an AI data center campus powered by a 7.65 GW gas plant. It would initially be entirely disconnected from the Texas electric grid.
In January, GW Ranch received a permit from the state of Texas allowing the gas power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
If the project emitted that much CO2, it would be the largest single source of pollution in the United States—emitting more greenhouse gases than the country’s largest coal plant. It’s worth noting that companies rarely emit as much as their permits allow.
The paper trail linking Amazon to GW Ranch surfaced earlier this week when Amazon filed three construction permits with the state. The permits showed Amazon’s plans to build three data center buildings with construction beginning immediately.
Cleanview reviewed satellite imagery to look for the project and discovered that land clearing had begun at the site described in GW Ranch’s air permit records.
We reached out to Amazon and the company confirmed it had acquired the GW Ranch site and plans to buy power from the plant, which is being developed by Pacifico Energy.
Partnering with GW Ranch marks Amazon’s first major investment in an off-grid data center. In doing so, the company joins Microsoft, Google, and Meta who have all invested significantly in natural gas power this year.
Data center developers have announced nearly 60 behind-the-meter gas power projects since the beginning of 2025 with a combined capacity of 90 GW, according to Cleanview’s latest report.
Not all of these projects will be built, but in recent months a growing share of them have begun construction and signed key tenant deals.
Amazon’s project in West Texas is unlikely to be its last bet on large-scale natural gas power. Yesterday, the company confirmed that it is in talks with the developers of a 4.5 GW gas power plant in Homer City, Pennsylvania.
When the developers of the Homer City gas plant first announced their project, they said it would be the largest gas power plant in America.
Now it’s just one of many giga-scale power plants that have been proposed across the country.
Lori Lodes retweeted
Chevron just posted $12 billion in profit. Up 400% in a year. Their biggest quarter ever. Exxon made $14.5 billion. You paid for all of it at the pump.
Say what you want about Trump. He’s making something great again. And who’s more deserving than Big Oil.
In 2024 he asked them for a billion dollars and promised their whole wish list in return. This morning they collected.
Lori Lodes retweeted
Last campaign, Zach Nunn said "prices are out of control." Then he voted for Trump's tariffs and Iran war. Now gas prices are even higher, and we've heard nothing from him.
His votes aren't just broken promises, they're making everything more expensive.
xitter.cf/who13news/status/20817…
Energy prices rise in defiance of Trump campaign promises who13.com/hill-politics/ener…
