Even Under Trump, Americans Can Fight Climate Change

Amazon , Facebook, Google , and Microsoft want to power their data centers using clean electricity.

Writers: Counting on Big Tech to be climate saviors would be a mistake.

They say tech giants will consume more renewable and fossil fuelgenerated energy and are much more likely to be villains than heroes.

Authors: Publicly owned power is solidly established in the U.S ..

Washington state has a mostly carbon-free grid thanks to public investment.

The Grand Coulee and other publicly owned dams on the Columbia River supply zero -carbon hydropower to municipal utilities like Seattle City Light .

In 2023 , the New York legislature empowered the publicly owned New York Power Authority to construct large-scale renewable projects.