by Sean O'Leary | Dec 9, 2025 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Key findings: The expansion of AI and data centers is at present almost the sole driver of US economic growth, as measured by GDP. Because data centers are highly capital-intensive but not very labor-intensive, they have the potential to worsen income inequality and...
by Eric de Place and Julia Stone | Nov 21, 2025 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
A slew of fracked gas pipeline projects in the Midwest could open the valve of Appalachia gas even wider, fueling the buildout of gas-fired power plants and power-hungry data centers across the region. Chief among them is Boardwalk’s Borealis pipeline project, a...
by Sean O'Leary | Nov 11, 2025 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
Key findings: Data centers like other imagined “economic game-changers” are highly capital-intensive, non-labor intensive enterprises that create few jobs and inject little money into host communities. While data centers are contributing more than a billion dollars...
by Kathy Hipple, Irina Spector, Justine Hackimer, and Nick Messenger | Nov 6, 2025 | Natural Gas, Reports, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
View report View summary The lagging US primary steel industry risks falling further behind in a rapidly decarbonizing global market absent large-scale investment in a transition to low- or zero-emissions “green” steelmaking, according to our latest report. US primary...
by Zane Gustafson | Oct 14, 2025 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
For the first time in this century, electricity demand is projected to rise across the United States, in large part due to rapid data center expansion. Utilities, merchant generators, and developers are rushing to build new power generating capacity, including across...
by Julia Stone | Oct 14, 2025 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
Two of the biggest natural gas pipeline operators are squabbling over who will build the next big pipeline to increase Appalachia gas flows to southern Virginia and North Carolina. Williams owns and operates the massive Transco interstate pipeline that runs from the...
by Sean O'Leary | Jul 31, 2025 | Natural Gas, Reports
View report View slide summary View digital toolkit The race to expand Appalachian natural gas production in anticipation of new power demand for AI data centers and increased export capacity of liquified natural gas (LNG) is unlikely to generate long-term job...
by Ben Hunkler | Jul 31, 2025 | Natural Gas, Newsroom
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. —— The race to expand Appalachian natural gas production in anticipation of new power demand for AI data centers and increased export capacity of liquified natural gas (LNG) is unlikely to generate long-term job growth or local prosperity, according to...
by Julia Stone and Zane Gustafson | Jul 1, 2025 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
Appalachian gas production has been hamstrung by a slowdown in pipeline construction; data center demand could change that. A planned buildout of new, AI-specialized data centers could unlock enough energy demand across the eastern half of the US to drive up...
by Sean O'Leary | Apr 21, 2025 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
The central claim of the Heritage Foundation’s special report that, because of New York’s ban on fracking, counties in the Marcellus region “lost out on around $11,000 per resident or $27,000 per household” is simply wrong. Why? Because . . . Very little...
