Opinion: You can’t blame data centers in Seattle for our skyrocketing electricity prices Seattle’s mayor is exploring a moratorium on new data centers, but the city’s real utility challenges — skyrocketing electricity prices, a looming capacity gap, and an eastside water defection — have nothing to do with data centers. Read More
Citing fire dangers, Seattle bans batteries from the trash — here’s where they should go instead Beginning this year, households in Seattle are banned from tossing old batteries in the trash — including everything from the… Read More
How do you recycle plastic? Startups and scientists are trying to make it easier Each week, Ridwell workers fan neighborhoods in six cities around the country picking up canvas sacks stuffed with plastic bags… Read More
Rock fans dig deep for Mudhoney and vote to name Seattle tunnel machine after longtime band Move aside, earth beneath Seattle. Here comes some hard rock. Seattle Public Utilities has announced that a tunnel boring machine… Read More
Mudhoney? Sir Digs-A-Lot? Music monikers in the mix as Seattle votes on name for tunnel machine Seattle’s deep musical roots are coming to the surface in the quest to name the tunnel boring machine that will… Read More
Seattle needs help naming another giant tunnel machine — can you dig it, or is it boring? Seattle’s affection for Tunnel Boring Machines probably doesn’t run all that deep. The emotional zigs and zags and costs of… Read More
Seattle utility glitch lets more than 3,000 people see other users’ bills It was a tough first day Monday for the city of Seattle’s new billing system for utility customers, as more… Read More
