data centers

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Decommissioning Data Centers: Avoiding Stranded Assets

The market for artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly growing, spurring the growth of data centers across the U.S. and around the world. That’s happening despite the major social and environmental concerns that data centers pose. What happens if those data centers are no longer used, either because they reach end […]

Data Center Litigation – An Emerging Frontier for Climate Litigation?

The explosive growth of artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, and digital services has brought renewed attention to the physical infrastructure underpinning the digital economy: data centers. While critical to the operations of major tech companies, data centers are now among the most energy-intensive forms of industrial infrastructure. Although it is […]

Guest Blog: Connecting Data Centers to the Grid: An Innovative and Controversial Proposal from AEP Ohio

This blog post was authored by 2024 Sabin Center Summer Intern, Yoon Kim, with input and supervision from Abe Silverman, Research Scholar at The Johns Hopkins University, Zach Wendling, Program Manager at the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy, and Romany Webb, Deputy Director of the Sabin Center for […]