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1,515 mentions for region: Tennessee
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The TVA board approved an agreement to supply approximately 150 megawatts of power to xAI's Colossus supercomputer facility in Memphis, a massive artificial intelligence computing center founded by Elon Musk housed in a former Electrolux manufacturing…
The Tennessee Valley Authority faces a lawsuit filed by the Alabama Department of Environmental Management over water pollution at the Colbert Fossil Plant in Colbert County, Alabama. The suit alleges that coal ash ponds at the…
“We believe it is appropriate to halt reactor licensing decisions and stop creating an intergenerational debt of nuclear waste that will burden our children and grandchildren for centuries to come”
“With that kind of growth, we're likely to see that momentum begin”
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management filed a lawsuit against TVA's Colbert Fossil Plant for alleged violations of the federal Clean Water Act related to coal ash pond storage. Multiple environmental groups, including Southern Alliance for…
A federal judge ruled that the Tennessee Valley Authority is liable for damages from a 2008 coal ash spill near Kingston, Tennessee that released over a billion gallons of toxic coal ash into nearby rivers and…
A new report by Atlas Public Policy for the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy finds that Tennessee ranks second in the Southeast for anticipated EV manufacturing jobs (16,164) but lags behind national and regional averages for…
“TVA should do more to attract good solar and storage projects by making it clear that TVA is serious about solar ambitions and making it easier to contract with TVA”
“The problem is that Elon Musk is asking for this to be done at an extraordinarily rapid rate with very little commitment to citizens and community engagement”
“There's a bubble, and what's going to end up happening is there's going to be a consolidation”
“Even more concerning is the fact that we are far from convinced that xAI didn't know when they first came to Memphis that they would expand the plans 10x. This is a classic bait and switch: xAI proposed one thing, and grew support from stakeholders like the Greater Memphis Chamber, the Memphis Shelby County Economic Development Growth Engine (EDGE), TVA, and governing authorities.”
“Solar, wind and battery storage are the quickest to deploy, carry the least risk and are less expensive options”
“We were promised shortly after the Kingston spill that the EPA was going to engage this, and see the regulation that has never been done through to completion, and they've more or less punted on that”
“It's good knowing we didn't use a drop of oil getting down here”
TVA disputes MLGW's Integrated Resource Plan, claiming that switching from TVA to MISO as an electricity supplier would cost MLGW an additional $261 million annually and $8 billion in infrastructure, rather than the $90–$122 million in…
