North Carolina’s data center boom is reshaping the state’s energy environment. What now?

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North Carolina’s data center boom is reshaping the state’s energy environment. What now?

Across the state, an increase in electricity demand from data center projects and manufacturing is driving a dramatic reshaping of North Carolina’s energy environment, bringing a renewed interest in fossil fuel expansion and deregulation of energy projects.   Data centers are booming across the Southeast, and North Carolina is no exception. North Carolina is becoming an…