About 1,000 acres of 7,600 acres of agricultural land northeast of Ruppert Road that make up the Lewis and Clark Ranch area in West Richland were sold – twice and for more than triple the price. And city officials said the sale was to a development company whose work includes data centers.
The Washington Supreme Court has yet to rule on the lawsuit challenging a large wind farm project outside the Tri-Cities but that hasn’t stopped the project’s developer from filing yet another change to its plans.
Amazon hosts open house in Burbank about proposed data center. Attendees questioned Amazon staff about reported issues connected to the company’s other data center facilities and share their reservations about the project.
A tribal site sacred to the Yakama Nation near the John Day hydroelectric dam isn’t the only land associated with tribal communities around the nation being eyed by data center developers.
As nuclear energy continues its nascent rise across the country, researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory find themselves entrenched in various efforts aimed at growing and advancing the power source.
Five Mid-Columbia school districts and the private company renovating a shopping center in the Columbia Center retail district have received hundreds of thousands of state dollars aimed at identifying and implementing energy efficiencies in their buildings.
The Pacific Northwest will need a massive buildout of new energy infrastructure over the next six years to meet rising electricity demand, according to a draft regional power plan. Implementing the plan will cost the Pacific Northwest approximately $2.3 billion. And the rate of building will need to quicken to make it happen by 2032.
