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As AI fuels data center expansion, communities are pushing back. What's driving the opposition, and what are the real environmental and economic trade-offs? YSE experts weigh in. Read the full story at: https://environment.yale.edu/news/article/data-centers-urban-heat-and-ai-growth?utm_source=YaleToday&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=YT_YaleToday-Staff_8-3-2026

The PSiCE fellowship matches 11 undergraduate and graduate students with non-profit, startup, and governmental organizations committed to energy equity and the deployment of clean energy. Trisha Gupta, a Masters of Public Policy candidate at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs, interns at Heatmap News.

The PSiCE fellowship matches 11 undergraduate and graduate students with non-profit, startup, and governmental organizations committed to energy equity and the deployment of clean energy. Devki Misra, a rising junior at Yale College studying Statistics and Data Science, Economics, and Energy Studies, interns at UndauntedK12.

The PSiCE fellowship matches 11 undergraduate and graduate students with non-profit, startup, and governmental organizations committed to energy equity and the deployment of clean energy. Leo, a rising junior at Yale College studying Economics with a certificate in Climate Science and Solutions, interns at the Clean Energy States Alliance.

The Yale Center for Business and the Environment’s Planetary Solutions in Clean Energy Fellowship matches 11 undergraduate and graduate students with nonprofit, startup, and governmental organizations working to advance energy equity and clean energy deployment. Through the fellowship, Emily Khym ’27.5, a Political Science major pursuing a certificate in Energy Studies, is spending the summer as a

The PSiCE fellowship matches 11 undergraduate and graduate students with non-profit, startup, and governmental organizations committed to energy equity and the deployment of clean energy. Hiromi, a Master of Environmental Management candidate at the Yale School of the Environment, is making energy markets data more meaningful in her summer at Grid Status.

The PSiCE fellowship matches 11 undergraduate and graduate students with non-profit, startup, and governmental organizations committed to energy equity and the deployment of clean energy. Deepa, a rising sophomore at Yale College studying Statistics and Data Science with a certificate in Energy Studies, interns at Voltus.

Explore this interactive resource with all 50 states and all RTOs/Markets for up-to-date information tracking large load tariffs.

Using the electrical grid more efficiently is cheaper than expanding it.

We Energies, formally Wisconsin Electric Power Company, proposed its Very Large Customer (VLC) and Bespoke Resources tariffs in March 2025 after multiple large data center prospects entered its service territory. This case study delves into the reasoning for, process of, and outcomes from these tariffs.

In partnership from the Connecticut Green Bank, Yale students assessed the state of Connecticut university fleet electrification and identified promising investment themes.

The PSiCE fellowship matches 11 undergraduate and graduate students with non-profit, startup, and governmental organizations committed to energy equity and the deployment of clean energy. Deepa, a rising sophomore at Yale College studying Statistics and Data Science with a certificate in Energy Studies, interns at Voltus.

When venture capitalists pitch the problem instead of the solution. By Jenny Liu, YC’26.

Clean energy transactions in the United States totaled $180 billion across 108 deals during the first quarter of 2026. That sounds like a booming market. Look closer, though, and the picture gets complicated. The clean energy market is not growing uniformly. It is splitting into two.

The era of selling "green" as a moral premium has faded. What comes next will be built by founders whose products are simply better, faster, and cheaper than the high-carbon incumbents they aim to replace.

How rural electrical cooperatives can become champions for clean energy—insights from the Yale School of the Environment’s panel, “Winning the Future of the Energy Transition in Rural America”.

On April 8, 2026, Jim Levitt (Yale College, BA1976; Yale SOM, MPPM 1980; Yale SOM Donaldson Fellow 2009; and co-founder of the International Land Conservation Network at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy) presented a compelling case for environmental optimism grounded not in aspiration, but in structural trends already visible in data.

Even as renewable energy continues its rapid expansion, electricity demand in the United States is accelerating at an even faster pace, partially driven by the explosive growth of AI data centers. To achieve net zero by 2050, large technology companies are pivoting toward nuclear power, with small modular reactors (SMRs) emerging as the most prominent solution.

A guide to different electricity markets: spot, day-ahead, energy-only, capacity. Electricity markets are layered precisely because electricity is physically unlike every other commodity.

The Strait of Hormuz crisis exposes not just the fragility of fossil fuels, but the geopolitical trap waiting inside the clean energy transition itself.