It’s a classic case of supply and demand for data centers in Dallas-Fort Worth – and across the U.S.. The country had a comfortable balance before the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the past few years, the quiet real estate space that supports data storage across sectors has seen supply dwindle to a few percentage points, just holes in existing inventory. There’s more than 5.6 million square feet of ...
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SPRINGFIELD — The Springfield Water and Sewer Commission voted this morning to adopt a union-backed labor deal for construction of the $325 million West Parish Water Treatment Plant. The 2-to-1 vote, guaranteeing hundreds of union jobs on the project, came only after commissioners were assured by staff that not only was it possible to add the project labor agreement now, after contracts for ...
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Gov. Josh Shapiro is pitching a two-part energy and climate change plan that would include a state-level cap-and-trade system for power plant pollution, precluding the legal battle over a regional emissions-control system his predecessor tried to join. Shapiro’s proposals – rolled out during an appearance with climate advocates and union officials in Scranton – would create a ...
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TUSAQUILLAS, Argentina (AP) — Irene Leonor Flores de Callata, 68, treks along a bone-dry riverbed, guiding a herd of llamas and sheep through stretching desert. Flores de Callata’s native Kolla people have spent centuries climbing deep into the mountains of northern Argentina in search of a simple substance: Fresh drinking water. Here, in one of the most arid environments in the world, it’s a ...
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American oil and natural gas wells, pipelines and compressors are spewing three times the amount of the potent heat-trapping gas methane as the government thinks, causing $9.3 billion in yearly climate damage, a new comprehensive study calculates. But because more than half of these methane emissions are coming from a tiny number of oil and gas sites, 1% or less, this means the problem is both ...
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BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts beach community is scrambling after a weekend storm washed away $600,000 in sand that was trucked in to protect homes, roads and other infrastructure. The project, which brought 14,000 tons (12,701 metric tons) of sand into Salisbury over several weeks, was completed just three days before Sunday's storm clobbered southern New England with strong winds, heavy ...
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Mar. 11—President Biden signed a spending bill Saturday that includes a record annual budget of just over $3 billion for the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington and averted a partial government shutdown that would have included the Department of Energy. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., chair of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, advocated for the record Hanford budget. The money ...
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Mar. 11—Walmart is planning its first Texas milk processing plant near Waco, the big retailer's third in the U.S. as it continues expanding its in-house supply chain to meet increasing demand for milk products. The $350 million facility in Robinson will process and package a variety of milk options under Walmart's Great Value and Sam's Club's Member's Mark brands. Its products will be sold at ...
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The Anaheim Planning Commission Monday night gave its approval for Disneyland’s on-property expansion plans, the first of two needed votes to allow the company to grow its theme parks with new attractions and hotels. The project, dubbed DisneylandForward, would give Disney more flexibility to choose where it builds new theme park areas, hotels and dining, without expanding beyond its existing ...
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Mar. 12—MANATEE COUNTY — The three bridges serving Anna Maria Island are all low-level drawbridges built in the 1950s, and two — the Cortez Bridge and the Anna Maria Bridge — are scheduled to be replaced by high-rise bridges. The future of the third span, the Longboat Key Bridge, could include rehabilitation or replacement by either a high-level fixed bridge or a movable bridge. The Florida ...
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