David Roberts
Writes and podcasts Volts, on the technology, politics and policy of decarbonisation; covered energy and climate at Vox and Grist before that.
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Public anger at data centers risks spreading into broader hostility toward electrification generally.
if we're not careful, the incredible public fury toward data centers threatens to metastasize into a more generalized hostility toward electrification.
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As I've said a million times, electrification is the heart of decarbonization, the heart of economic growth, the heart of everything.
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if we're not careful, the incredible public fury toward data centers threatens to metastasize into a more generalized hostility toward electrification.
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Public anger at data centers risks spreading into broader hostility toward electrification generally.
if we're not careful, the incredible public fury toward data centers threatens to metastasize into a more generalized hostility toward electrification.
Volts community thread #30: what should I ask the Danes? Said 21 Sept 2026
Electrification is the central driver of decarbonization and economic growth.
As I've said a million times, electrification is the heart of decarbonization, the heart of economic growth, the heart of everything.
Volts community thread #30: what should I ask the Danes? Said 21 Sept 2026
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- The transformative potential of solid-state transformers 4 Nov 2026
- The (climate) case against (AI) data centers 30 Oct 2026
- The PAC taking out clean energy opponents 28 Oct 2026
Show 17 more
- Building our piece of the electric stack 23 Oct 2026
- Can distributed energy work around American utilities? 21 Oct 2026
- What’s up with Denmark? 16 Oct 2026
- Checking back in with Greenlight America 14 Oct 2026
- What’s up with the new federal permitting reform bill? 9 Oct 2026
- The grueling fight to pass the Inflation Reduction Act 7 Oct 2026
- Best of September 2026 2 Oct 2026
- What’s up with heat-pump water heaters? 30 Sept 2026
- Do small residential batteries make sense? 23 Sept 2026
- How energy politics work inside DC 18 Sept 2026
- How to build a more flexible, quieter, less obnoxious data center 16 Sept 2026
- Building a big, abundant, clean grid 11 Sept 2026
- Is there way more conventional geothermal than we thought? 9 Sept 2026
- Best of August 2026 4 Sept 2026
- How to respond to disinformation about clean energy, at scale 2 Sept 2026
- Could we use Trump's tricks to make good green policy? 28 Aug 2026
- Making data centers flexible so they can serve the grid rather than stress it out 26 Aug 2026
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