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Report: As AI electricity demands soar, Microsoft weighs retreat from ambitious carbon-free energy pledge

The same AI boom that is minting record profits for Microsoft is now threatening to derail its climate leadership as it looks to weaken its ambitious clean energy goals. Read More

Google looks to buy its way out of the AI power crunch with $4.75B Intersect acquisition

Google parent Alphabet’s $4.75 billion acquisition of clean energy developer Intersect is a major Pacific Northwest exit that shows how cloud giants are racing to secure the power needed to fuel their AI data center ambitions. Read More

Here’s why there’s a solar canopy in a sprawling parking lot at the University of Washington

UW is powering up its vision for a brighter, more sustainable future with a newly completed solar canopy installed in a sprawling parking lot north of Husky Stadium. Read More

Forget fusion (for a minute): This is where a clean energy expert is placing his near-term bets

There are all kinds of sexy, new clean energy technologies on the horizon. Atom-smashing fusion devices replicating the power of… Read More

Seattle’s LevelTen Energy to lay off workers amid shrinking support for U.S. wind and solar power

Seattle-based LevelTen Energy, a startup facilitating the deployment of clean energy projects, is laying off 60 workers according to a… Read More

Trump’s mega bill blasted by Washington leaders: Clean energy cuts threaten AI boom, hike costs

As energy demand spikes due to AI-driven data center expansions and the shift to electrification of transportation and other sectors,… Read More

Groundbreaking fusion: Helion eyes rural Wash. for world’s first plant despite unproven tech

Nearly a century after construction began on Rock Island Dam — the first hydroelectric power plant on the Columbia River… Read More

Amazon shareholder revolt loses steam

Amazon’s latest shareholder results, released Thursday, show a continued drop in support for major environmental and social proposals. Measures on… Read More

How do you capture the ocean’s energy? Peek under the hood of a startup’s ‘anti-boat’ power device

Oscilla Power, a startup developing devices that capture wave energy to produce electricity, has ocean-sized ambitions. The Seattle-based business envisions… Read More

Q&A: AWS renewable power leader on AI’s energy strain, a political dust-up in Oregon, and more

Amazon for three years has ranked as the No. 1 corporate purchaser of renewable energy worldwide. As the retail, cloud… Read More

New climate marketplace raises $6.1M to move clean energy cash into impactful projects

As international scientists are frantically raising alarms about climate change, corporations, public policy and tech innovation are coming together to… Read More

How much solar and wind power is out there? A Microsoft effort using satellites, AI aims to find out

In the race to curb climate change, solar panels and wind turbines are being installed across the planet — but… Read More

Is the tide turning on renewable marine power? Entrepreneurs test wave-powered energy systems

When people ask Brian Polagye how difficult is it to extract energy from the ocean, he offers an anecdote. The… Read More

Google-backed startup LevelTen Energy lands $35M as clean power sector booms

Seattle startup LevelTen Energy has raised $35 million in a Series C round led by NGP Energy Capital, with participation… Read More

Amazon unveils 9 clean energy projects, says it will power company with 100% renewables by 2025

Amazon on Monday announced nine new wind and solar energy projects, bringing its total number of renewable projects to 206.… Read More

Amazon launches first solar energy facility in China

Amazon announced its first solar energy facility in China on Thursday, one of five renewable energy projects the company is… Read More

Geek of the Week: Maryssa Barron brings her (renewable) energy to clean tech and LevelTen

Maryssa Barron grew up in a small, rural town in East Texas and spent most of her childhood playing music… Read More

Washington state and B.C. launch Joint Clean Grid Initiative to align renewable energy transition

Washington state and British Columbia are partnering to share resources and work together as each government pursues ambitious clean energy… Read More

Electricity marketplace WattBuy is the latest Seattle-area energy startup to raise funding

Another Seattle-area clean energy startup is raising cash. This time it’s WattBuy, which just reeled in a $1.2 million seed… Read More

With a strong nudge from employees, can Amazon finally become a leader on climate change?

Amazon revels in its reputation for taking bold, unexpected action, for being visionary in industries such as cloud computing and… Read More

Starbucks taps Seattle startup LevelTen in first-of-its-kind clean energy deal

Starbucks has struck a first-of-its-kind clean energy deal that will generate enough power to run 3,000 of its stores by… Read More

Clean energy marketplace LevelTen Energy raises $20.5M to help companies ‘go green’

Several years ago, LevelTen CEO Bryce Smith saw that companies such as Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Apple were starting to… Read More

Amazon to share its carbon footprint for 1st time as part of new ‘Shipment Zero’ sustainability initiative

Amazon has called its sustainability shot. The tech giant aims to get half of its package deliveries to a standard… Read More

Clean-energy Buds: Rising Seattle startup Drift teams with King of Beers in Super Bowl promotion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKDA2HVlgko Budweiser is back at the Super Bowl, as usual, with another high-profile commercial in the contest for eyeballs, clicks… Read More

T-Mobile pledges to power its Seattle-area HQ with 100% renewable energy by 2021

T-Mobile said it will use entirely renewable energy to power its Bellevue, Wash. HQ within three years. T-Mobile said it… Read More

After huge wind and solar energy purchases in 2018, Facebook sets goal of 100 percent renewable energy usage by 2020

Facebook committed itself Tuesday to powering its entire global operation with renewable energy sources by the end of the decade,… Read More

Microsoft makes largest corporate solar deal in U.S. history, buying 315 MW from 750,000 solar panels

Microsoft just announced what it calls “the single largest corporate purchase of solar energy ever in the United States,” buying… Read More

John Legere

T-Mobile pledges 100% renewable energy use by 2021, predicts cutting power costs by $100M

You might say T-Mobile‘s head-to-toe magenta brand is going green. On Monday, the Bellevue, Wash., mobile network announced a pledge… Read More

Microsoft promises to cut carbon emissions 75% by 2030 and hit Paris climate agreement targets

Microsoft said this morning it plans to cut carbon emissions by 75 percent by 2030, taking another step in a… Read More

Microsoft campus

Microsoft and Puget Sound Energy get OK for clean-energy deal to help power software giant’s campus

A deal allowing Microsoft to directly purchase clean energy to power its Redmond, Wash., headquarters campus has been approved by… Read More

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