Donna Kohut

As the Policy Manager for Sustainable Economics, Donna works to advance sustainable economic development as a core environmental indicator in Pennsylvania.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: Anthropic reports an $80 billion net loss in the first half of 2026.

[Claire Lehmann @clairlemon]

Have they asked Claude to design a sustainable business model?
https://t.co/Z3L18cfKu1

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

Repeat after me. A habitable planet is more important than the profits of a few fossil fuel companies.

Pass it on.

#ActOnClimate

[Peter🌲Brannen @PeterBrannen1]

Kind of crazy that our miraculous planet, one modulated by the very flow of carbon between different reservoirs (the mantle, atmosphere, oceans, life, and the crust) is currently undergoing one of the most profound derangements of its carbon cycle in hundreds of millions of years

[Donna Kohut @SEDKohut]

@O_R_V_I The first phase of the PATER Study, released a couple weeks ago and assesses PA's grid infrastructure and former fossil fuel power plant sites for redevelopment, refers to H2 production multiple times. But there's currently no significant H2 production in PA...

[PaEnvironmentDigest @paenvirodigest]

Inside Climate News: With A Trifecta, PA Democrats Would Pass Energy Reforms And Rein In A.I. Data Centers; But Gov. Josh Shapiro May Be ‘The Limiting Factor’ https://t.co/T2ip2mVi7t

[Donna Kohut @SEDKohut]

Whatcha gonna do with all them chips. All them chips inside your warehouse.

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Business Insider confirms it: Amazon has warehouses of GPUs that can’t be installed, and is buying them so far in advance that a supply chain team said they “didn’t have a clear forecasted path” to installing them.
https://t.co/Jzc1vPekGx

[Brendon Slotterback @bslotterback]

“I think the data center demand [on top of LNG] will have a huge impact on the markets, especially in the winter”

Kudos to @CatalystPod for taking a careful look at the rush to gas (interconnection, geography, prices). No data center is “off grid” unless it’s off the gas grid.

[Donna Kohut @SEDKohut]

Who are these data centers for? (not us) And who bears both the physical and economic costs? (us)

[Ohio River Valley Institute @O_R_V_I]

Researchers with Scioto Analysis estimate that air pollution from data center power plants—including nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide, and particulate matter—could create $41 billion in health and environmental costs between 2027 and 2034. https://t.co/LuWvoUFX5R

[David Roberts @drvolts]

Today on Volts: I talk with @matt_traldi, CEO of Greenlight America. It's a nonprofit with a simple mission: find the local meetings where the fate of clean energy projects is being decided & rally supporters to attend. Incredible growth & impact since we last talked!
https://t.co/DFSQiFsgGq

[Michael Thomas @curious_founder]

Utilities are spending billions to provide power to data centers.

That's why our team at Cleanview spent the last month mapping every data center in America to the utility that will, or already does, provide its electricity.

Given the impact of the data center buildout on America's economy and power grid, you would think this data already existed. And it sort of did.

Publicly traded utilities disclose their data center pipelines in SEC filings, but they often don’t break down those numbers by the stage of development.

Utilities announce deals with hyperscalers, but they don’t share the total amount of power that will be consumed or when it will ramp.

Permits often show connections between data centers and utilities, but they are scattered in thousands of documents.

Over the last month, we went through thousands of these documents to map connections between ~4,000 data centers in Cleanview to utilities and grid operators.

Then we mapped utilities to their parent companies, which are often some of the largest publicly traded companies in America.

All of this data is now available in our platform, CSV exports, and API. If you’d like to learn more about Cleanview's data center tracker and this new feature, send us a note.

[Donna Kohut @SEDKohut]

You know what would make this better? More large load customers. Bahahahahaaaa

[PaEnvironmentDigest @paenvirodigest]

PJM Extends Maximum Generation Alert To Oct. 14 Due To Unusually Warm Weather, Equipment Outages; Calls On Demand Response To Reduce Power Load  [PaEN] https://t.co/wH7GvmINKX

[Donna Kohut @SEDKohut]

It's worth noting that PA Energy Horizons Cross-Sector Collaborative was consulted for this part of the study. They promote CCUS and H2 as decarbonization strategies while touting PA's Marcellus Shale gas.

[PaEnvironmentDigest @paenvirodigest]

Altoona Mirror - Robert Swift: PUC/Team PA Report Identifies 21 Possible Sites For A.I. Data Center Power Plants  https://t.co/STz88OPjqD

[Ohio River Valley Institute @O_R_V_I]

Pennsylvania's hydrogen hubs have stalled out. https://t.co/olSzqFIrez

[Donna Kohut @SEDKohut]

@O_R_V_I Agreed. But it's concerning that the PATER Study of PA's grid calls out the potential of H2 production multiple times. Curious as to what they're alluding to.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Over half of American workers skip lunch on the job at least once a week due to sky high food prices or increasing job pressure, according to a new report.

[Solar and Storage Industry @SEIA]

Solar is the quickest to build 🏃‍➡️

But federal permitting bottlenecks are slowing the deployment of low-cost solar and storage and raising prices for American families. Every day Congress delays reform, prices, emissions, and grid instability go up.
https://t.co/tUc9nF3O0o

[WVIA @WVIATVFM]

Near record-high diesel prices have some school bus drivers questioning how long the wheels will still go ‘round.

https://t.co/ENzimRY6kg

[Donna Kohut @SEDKohut]

"The ruling will potentially lead to higher capacity prices for longer in PJM, which is favorable to independent power producers such as Constellation Energy, NRG Energy, Talen Energy and Vistra"

[PaEnvironmentDigest @paenvirodigest]

Utility Dive: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Rejects Most Of PJM’s ‘Bring Your Own Power’ Data Center Load Plan Saying It Intrudes On State Jurisdiction, May Be Discriminatory  [FERC Rejected PJM’s Backstop Energy Plan Earlier]   https://t.co/AhkbbB4b9p

[ReImagine Appalachia @newdeal4us]

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