While nationwide, neighborhoods have fought to keep the electricity- and water-hungry data centers away, Vernon is welcoming another data center, seemingly without opposition.
At the corner of 48th Street and Santa Fe Avenue in industrial Vernon, a three-story building looms large among rumbling factories and warehouses. Long, vertical, tinted windows with green outlines punctuate the two-acre structure’s grey and white facade–all in the service of keeping its tenants cool inside. Its tenants aren’t people, but giant servers, storage drives and networking equipment.
Climate Change
After a Slow Start on Climate, Zohran Mamdani Faces Scrutiny Over Parks Budget and Environmental Promises
Climate-conscious New Yorkers hope the mayor hasn’t forgotten them.
During his New York City mayoral campaign, Zohran Mamdani courted votes from environmentalists. He promised to expand green spaces in public schools and equip them with renewable energy, to meet the demands of the city’s building electrification laws and to increase investments in city parks.
That would be American ratepayers—i.e., you.
From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Jenni Doering with Katharine Kollins, the president of Southeastern Wind Coalition.
Who Loses in the Trump Administration’s $1 Billion ‘Deal’ to Abandon Offshore Wind?
County officials have said they will eventually close the incinerator, located in a predominantly Black community. Advocates want a concrete plan.
Minneapolis activists are escalating a decades-long fight by going on a hunger strike to demand that local officials shut down a polluting trash incinerator.
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