Nico Lauricella

This week’s conversation is with Grant Gutierrez, head of community impacts at carbon management company Carbon Direct. This week Carbon Direct published a white paper Gutierrez authored on opposition around data centers he’s studied. His research reinforces much of what Heatmap Pro has uncovered, but I was particularly intrigued by a topline finding – that transparency is the most common thread in the 46 data center fights he looked into. Was he seeing what I’ve been seeing?

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Heatmap News, the award-winning climate and clean energy media company, is looking for an ambitious researcher to help track the local politics of the energy transition. The researcher will work closely with the Heatmap Pro team to build out Heatmap’s data around political sentiment, local laws, and real-time coverage of energy projects and data centers.