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Data center grid bill faces lame-duck Senate floor fight

  • By Alton Wallace | The Center Square
  • Updated 13 hrs ago

(The Center Square) – Bipartisan legislation supporters say will shield households from data center grid upgrade costs is dividing lawmakers of both parties after advancing in the U.S. Senate during this week's lame-duck session.

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Sweeping permitting reform bill moves to Senate floor debate

  • By Alton Wallace | The Center Square
  • Updated Nov 10, 2026

(The Center Square) - The U.S. Senate voted Monday to advance a sweeping overhaul of federal permitting laws that would require major data centers to pay for the grid upgrades they cause, protecting other electricity customers from absorbing those costs.

Facing pushback on data centers, tech giants are promising hosts more money and fewer secrets
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Facing pushback on data centers, tech giants are promising hosts more money and fewer secrets

  • By MARC LEVY & KAITLYN HUAMANI Associated Press
  • Oct 22, 2026

With host communities across the U.S. turning against their gargantuan data centers, America's technology giants are promising to take fewer t…

Iraq's Kurdistan enjoys all-day state electricity
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Iraq's Kurdistan enjoys all-day state electricity

  • Safin HAMID
  • Jul 8, 2025

Arbil, the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, will now get 24-hour electricity

Iraq's Kurdistan enjoys all-day state electricity
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Iraq's Kurdistan enjoys all-day state electricity

  • Safin HAMID
  • Jul 8, 2025

Masrour Barzani, prime minister of the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government, gives a press conference

Iraq's Kurdistan enjoys all-day state electricity
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Iraq's Kurdistan enjoys all-day state electricity

  • AFP AFP
  • Jul 8, 2025

More than 30 percent of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region now has 24-hour state electricity, authorities said Thursday, with plans to extend …

Fire that closed Heathrow traced to unrepaired transformer
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Fire that closed Heathrow traced to unrepaired transformer

  • STR
  • Jul 1, 2025

The fire broke out at the North Hyde substation in West London on March 20

Fire that closed Heathrow traced to unrepaired transformer
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Fire that closed Heathrow traced to unrepaired transformer

  • STR
  • Jul 1, 2025

Flights were grounded and the airport shut after the substation fire

Fire that closed Heathrow traced to unrepaired transformer
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Fire that closed Heathrow traced to unrepaired transformer

  • AFP AFP
  • Jul 1, 2025

A fire at an electrical substation that forced a shutdown at London's Heathrow Airport in March was likely caused by moisture entering electri…

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Report: Regional power grid prepared for hotter, wetter summer

  • By Lauren Jessop | The Center Square contributor
  • Jun 13, 2025

(The Center Square) – Pennsylvania’s utility companies say they’re prepared for a summer of high electricity demand and weather-related threat…

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