This startup wants to make clean energy the default for data centers

Firma Power is helping data centers add clean energy to the grid instead of relying on gas.

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The U.S. is on track to add a record 86 gigawatts of new wind, solar, and battery storage capacity this year—roughly the size of the U.K.’s entire grid. And there’s far more clean energy in the pipeline, with low-cost proposed projects that could help meet the surging demand from data centers. So why are data centers increasingly turning to polluting gas plants instead of clean energy?

A startup called Firma Power says that the issue isn’t cost, speed, or reliability, but the difficulty of assembling........

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