Media Coverage

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September 2026

• "Texas oilfield wastewater could help cool data centers without draining freshwater" | October 12, 2026 | Interesting Engineering | Cited our data center water use article
• "Trump Promises to Hand Out More Cash, This Time to Help Data Centers" | September 30, 2026 | The New Republic | Cited our data center water use article
• "Losing Power" | September 30, 2026 | Richmond Magazine | Cited our data center water use article
• "Only 33% of utility executives call asset management advanced, IFS survey finds" | September 30, 2026 | MarketScale | Cited EESI’s 2025 briefing on grid reliability
• "Central Mass. city approves 1-year moratorium on data centers, battery storage sites" | September 29, 2026 | MassLive | Cited our data center water use article
• "Congress Targets Data Centers: What It Could Mean for Home Prices, Bills" | September 29, 2026 | Newsweek | Cited our article about data centers and rising energy bills
• "Data centres: Tech companies are putting health and the environment at risk by exploiting regulatory gaps" | September 29, 2026 | The British Medical Journal | Cited our data center noise pollution article 
• "Growing AI energy demands, the search for subatomic particles, and the hottest amoeba" | September 28, 2026 | Scientific American | Cited our data center water use article
• "Mark Gongloff: AI is already damaging human life. We gave it a head start" | September 17, 2026 | The Sacramento Bee | An op-ed author cited our article about data center PFAS use
• "Harvard Softball Summer Spotlight: Megan Davies" | September 17, 2026 | Harvard Athletics | Published a profile about our summer 2026 intern, Megan Davies, and her experience working with EESI’s policy team
• "As Ohio becomes popular for data centers, some neighbors push back" | September 15, 2026 | Spectrum News 1 | Cited our data center water use article
• "10 facts about what a data center actually is — and why one might be coming to your neighborhood" | September 11, 2026 | Quartz | Cited our data center noise pollution article
• "Opinion | Before a data center moves forward, Minneapolis must listen to the river" | September 10, 2026 | The Minnesota Star Tribune | Cited our data center water use article
• "The EPA doesn’t think your opposition to data centers needs to be heard" | September 8, 2026 | MS NOW | Cited our data center water use article
• "Residents question noise impacts of OpenAI data center" | September 7, 2026 | Savannah Morning News | Quoted EESI President Daniel Bresette and Project Manager Miguel Yañez-Barnuevo
• "A haven to weather heat waves, air pollution and other climate risks opens in San Ysidro" | September 3, 2026 | KPBS | Cited our 2018 article on mass timber as a sustainable building material
• "Mayor says data centers not allowed in Fresno. So why is city mulling 10-year ban?" | September 2, 2026 | The Fresno Bee | Cited our data center water use article
• "List of Republicans Publicly Breaking With Trump on AI Data Centers" | September 1, 2026 | Newsweek | Cited our data center water use article

August 2026

• "Sen. Ed Markey, Democrat, across decades in Massachusetts politics" | August 31, 2026 | Detroit Free Press | Included photos of an EESI event from 2023
• "Trump Attacks People Who Just Don’t Want to Live Near a Data Center" | August 31, 2026 | The New Republic | Cited our data center water use article
• "Trump says communities opposed to data centers want to be ‘backwards and poor’" | August 31, 2026 | The Hill | Cited our data center water use article
• "Tech industry’s warning as Maryland counties block datacenters" | August 31, 2026 | The Baltimore Sun | Cited our data center water use article
• "Texas’ Fight Against 1 Million-Square-Foot Data Center Explained" | August 27, 2026 | Newsweek | Cited our data center water use article
• "Democrats in key House, Senate races sign AI regulation pledge amid data center scrutiny" | August 26, 2026 | The Hill | Cited our data center water use article
• "Unlikely Winners of the Data Center Boom: Sound Consultants" | August 26, 2026 | Bloomberg | Cited our data center noise pollution article [subscription required]
• "Inside Jason Kelce’s Potty Humor Marketing Ploy Against AI Data Centers" | August 21, 2026 | CNET | Cited our data center water use article
• "Liquid Death Just Sold Out of $18 ‘Pee Jars’ to Troll AI Data Centers Thanks to Jason Kelce" | August 19, 2026 | Inc. | Cited our data center water use article
• "Miami-Dade wants to be an AI hub. What will data centers mean for communities?" | August 18, 2026 | The Miami Times | Cited our data center water use article
• "Canadian Columnist Boosting Data Centres Has Ties to AI Industry" | August 17, 2026 | DeSmog | Cited our data center water use article
• "Another fast-growing Charlotte suburb OKs data center pause — this time for a year" | August 13, 2026 | The Charlotte Observer | Cited our data center water use article
• "A primer for Las Vegas on the functions, benefits and dangers of data centers" | August 6, 2026 | Las Vegas Weekly | Cited our data center noise pollution article
• "Judgment Day: Some local businesses turn to AI images, but not without community pushback" | August 6, 2026 | Pittsburgh City Paper | Cited our data center water use article 
• "DiCaprio, Bezos launch $200M species initiative amid data center criticism" | August 4, 2026 | USA Today | Cited our data center water use article

July 2026

• "Is Las Vegas running out of water? See the city's conservation efforts" | July 29, 2026 | USA Today | Cited our Colorado River briefing
• "How Meta’s Secret $50 Billion AI Center Could Have a Devastating Toll on the Black South" | July 27, 2026 | The Root | Cited our data center water use article
• "Trump touts tech company pledges to pay for data centers' electricity" | July 24, 2026 | Spectrum News | Cited our data center energy use article
• "Detroit council opposes unchecked water use by AI data centers" | July 22, 2026 | Bridge Detroit | Cited our data center water use article
• "Erin Brockovich is once again tied to an environmental fight against a utility company, and the case inevitably recalls the battle that turned her into a symbol of citizen resistance" | July 19, 2026 | ECOticias | Cited our data center water use article
• "Data center growth raises long-term resource concerns in North Alabama" | July 17, 2026 | FOX54 News | Cited our data center water use article
• "‘Time is of the essence.’ De Soto wants new rules to regulate data center noise" | July 17, 2026 | Kansas City Star | Cited our article on noise pollution from data centers
• "What to know about data centers as citizens demand more regulations" | July 16, 2026 | Detroit Free Press | Cited our data center water use article
• "Major barriers in agricultural nitrogen tracking influencing carbon credit potential -report" | July 16, 2026 | Carbon Pulse | Cited our agricultural nitrogen briefing and quoted EESI President Daniel Bresette [subscription required].
• "Google backs major US solar project to offset fossil fuel emissions" | July 14, 2026 | The Financial Times | Cited our data center energy use article
• "A data center proposed at a quiet corner of East Texas leaves a community bracing for a boom" | July 9, 2026 | The Texas Tribune | Cited our article about data centers and rising energy bills
• "Across the US, data center backlash stalls $130 billion in projects and sparks recall bids" | July 9, 2026 | The Cool Down | Cited our data center water use article
• "The government might tell you to take a shorter shower. Here's why" | July 5, 2026 | USA Today | Cited our data center water use article
• "Data Center Emits Constant Screeching Noise Directly Into Man’s House" | July 5, 2026 | Futurism | Cited our article on noise pollution from data centers
• "Who doesn't have AC? Maps show the places with the least" | July 3, 2026 | USA Today | Cited our article on passive cooling strategies
• "Nottingham’s 12-month moratorium on data center construction heads to a town vote" | July 3, 2026 | New Hampshire Public Radio | Cited our data center water use article
• "US residents angry at datacenters ‘being shoved down our throats’ are recalling officials" | July 3, 2026 | The Guardian | Cited our data center water use article
• "Nvidia says it can cut data center water use. The AI boom has a bigger problem" | July 1, 2026 | Fast Company | Cited our data center water use article

Media Coverage Archives (2026, Part 1)