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What would it take to build a sustainable data center? A roomful of rivals tried to find out

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By Joel Makower Verified, Hana Kajimura
| Trellis Verified
The numbers forecast for data center investment are the kind that stop a conversation before it starts. Capital spending on AI infrastructure is on track to surpass $1 trillion as soon as 2027 — the largest infrastructure buildout in U.S. history as a share of GDP since the Louisiana Purchase — and now exceeds annual investment in upstream oil and gas. Spending of this magnitude locks in assets for 20, 30, even 50 years. The window to shape these assets is narrow and closing.
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What would it take to build a sustainable data center? A roomful of rivals tried to find out

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By Joel Makower Verified
| ecotopical.com
Welcome to EcoTopical Your daily eco-friendly green news aggregator. Leaf through planet Earths environmental headlines in one convenient place. Read, share and discover the latest on ecology, science and green living from the web's most popular sites.
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What climate comedians can teach us about storytelling

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By Joel Makower Verified
| Trellis Verified
“Can climate be funny?” asks Stuart Goldsmith before answering his own question. “Can grief be funny? Can war be funny? These are all the things that comics have spoken about since there have been comics.” So, why not make the climate crisis funny? That’s the challenge of the two guests that my co-host, Solitaire Townsend, and I talked with in the latest episode of our Two Steps Forward podcast.
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