Author: Daniel Kreps

Looking for a quick fix for their fast-growing electricity diets, tech giants are increasingly looking to strike deals with power plant owners to plug in directly, avoiding a potentially longer and more expensive process of hooking into a fraying electric grid that serves everyone else. It’s raising questions over whether diverting power to higher-paying customers will leave enough for others and whether it’s fair to excuse big power users from paying for the grid. Front and center is the data center that Amazon’s cloud computing subsidiary, Amazon Web Services, is building next to the Susquehanna nuclear plant in eastern Pennsylvania.Read…

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Future teachers from Russellville and Pottsville will soon receive assistance in pursuing their degrees at Arkansas Tech University through The Mullens Promise, a new scholarship program funded by the Bert and Annette Mullens Foundation. The Mullens Promise will provide scholarships for full-time students majoring in education at Arkansas Tech who…Read More

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