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A Sierra Club report gave Mississippi Power a score of 44 out of 100 for its plan to add 548 megawatts of gas capacity and no renewable capacity, despite retiring its coal fleet. The 76 U.S. utilities assessed recorded a national average of just 7 points, the lowest in the report’s history.
PwC expects global data center investments to reach $31.6 trillion between 2026 and 2050, driven by demand for artificial intelligence. The report indicates that the availability of reliable, low-carbon electricity and the transmission networks needed to deliver it could become the decisive factor in determining where these investments are located.