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Big Tech is striking secret deals to make you foot its electricity bill, Harvard researchers say
March 14, 2025
Tech companies racing to secure power for their data centers have struck dozens of secretive electricity deals with utilities that could cost average Americans a…
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Assembly lawmakers unleashed a wave of legislation this week to remake New Jersey’s energy market in response to outrage over skyrocketing power prices. One bill,…
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Undaunted: Judge Beryl Howell holds the line
March 14, 2025
Let’s face it: Our democracy is hanging by a thread. President in Name Only Donald Trump has unleashed acting president Elon Musk to usurp the…
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Report Faults Utilities on Data Center Planning
March 14, 2025
The new grid infrastructure needed for the much-publicized data center buildout is being unevenly subsidized by other ratepayers through minimally publicized utility agreements, a report…
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Who’s really paying to power Big Tech’s AI ambitions?
March 14, 2025
The world’s most powerful tech companies are racing to build enough data center infrastructure to support their artificial intelligence ambitions — and many are having…
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ICE Must Release New Solitary Confinement Rules: Lawsuit
March 14, 2025
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) demanding information on new policies governing the use…
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Republican calls to impeach judges are dangerous and absurd
March 13, 2025
An op-ed by Nancy Gertner: More than 90 cases have been filed seeking to stop the blizzard of executive orders issued by President Trump from…
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An op-ed by Noah Feldman: The Trump administration came into office claiming to stand for free speech. Yet the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil,…
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A rogue cop, a mystery snitch, and a ‘drug rip.’ How ‘Officer Pills’ exploited policing’s informant system.
March 13, 2025
During daylight hours, the docks of this city’s historic port are a hive of activity — dive-bombing gulls, rumbling diesel trucks, and the playful banter…
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Cutting Columbia’s Aid Over Alleged Antisemitism Is Illegal
March 11, 2025
An op-ed by Noah Feldman: The Trump administration has sown fear at the nation’s research universities with the cancellation of $400 million in federal grants…
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Before leaving office, former President Joe Biden declared the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) “the law of the land.” The 28th Amendment, which declares that “Equality…
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‘Nothing like this in American history’: the crisis of Trump’s assault on the rule of law
March 10, 2025
When the chief justice of the US supreme court, John Roberts, delivered his bombshell ruling last July granting Donald Trump absolute immunity from criminal prosecution…
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President Donald Trump is going after a pair of major law firms — and attacking the First Amendment in the process. Trump issued an executive…
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Musk’s Tweet-Fueled Bubble May Be About to Burst
March 10, 2025
An op-ed by Mihir Desai: Elon Musk’s business empire may be starting to wobble. Over the past six weeks, the value of Tesla’s shares has…
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Trump Is Leading an ‘All-Out Assault’ on the Climate
March 10, 2025
It’s no secret that Donald Trump has zero interest in fighting climate change and enthusiastically supports the fossil fuel industry. Trump’s 2024 victory was expected…
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Is Musk’s DOGE Dodging the Law?
March 10, 2025
In the new Trump administration, Elon Musk was named a special government employee and de facto head of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency…
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Utilities may subsidize data center growth by shifting costs to other ratepayers: Harvard Law paper
March 10, 2025
Utilities may subsidize data center growth by shifting the costs of serving the facilities to residential and other ratepayers, according to a paper released March…
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Supreme Court’s USAID Ruling Sends an Important Message
March 7, 2025
An op-ed by Noah Feldman: The US Supreme Court has proven its mettle in its first important confrontation with the Trump administration — barely. By…
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As policymakers look for ways to shield utility customers from rising power bills tied to data center development, a new paper from the Electricity Law…
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A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump from firing a Democratic member of the National Labor Relations Board, calling the dismissal “flat wrong”…
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Who pays for a data center? The first answer is the investors and developers who are planning on pouring billions of dollars into building out…