Net Power Surrendered Its Clean Dreams to Data Center Demand
The zero-emission pioneer is doing the dirty work for the AI boom.
The zero-emission pioneer is doing the dirty work for the AI boom.
Tatiana Mitrova, a fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy and former energy scholar at Moscow’s Russian Academy of Sciences, and Sergey Vakulenko, an oil and gas expert at Carnegie’s Russia Eurasia Center, argue that Russia and Ukraine are locked in an energy war that has become an adaptation spiral, despite growing human and economic costs and despite current US pressure on Ukraine. They observe Ukraine’s remarkable ability to withstand Russian strikes, while questioning claims that long-range Ukrainian strikes will be able to achieve game-changing damage on Russia. Ukraine and Russia have transformed the role of energy warfare in modern conflict, drawing on low costs drones but also new forms of technological resilience that are likely to make wars longer and more dangerous.
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The interactive tool estimates how the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act could impact the permitting and construction timelines of different types of energy projects.