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Featured Publication

Curtail to Compute: Siting Datacenters to Leverage California’s Stranded Renewable Energy

March 10, 2026

California leads the nation in renewable energy deployment, with solar and wind generation providing over a third of the state’s electricity in 2024.

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Featured Publication

Curtail to Compute: Siting Datacenters to Leverage California’s Stranded Renewable Energy

March 10, 2026

California leads the nation in renewable energy deployment, with solar and wind generation providing over a third of the state’s electricity in 2024.

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Clean Energy

2025 California Green Innovation Index

December 16, 2025

The 17th annual California Green Innovation Index finds total greenhouse gas emissions fell between 2022 and 2023, dropping by 3.0% to 360.4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent

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Clean Energy

An Assessment of California Data Centers’ Environmental and Public Health Impacts

November 12, 2025

While data centers have long existed in California, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has significantly increased demand for new data centers over the last five years, and the pace is expected to increase through the rest of the decade.

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Economy & Governance

Costs of Climate Change: Financial and Economic Impacts on California and U.S. Households

September 25, 2025

The costs of a warming climate continue to burden California families long after much-publicized climate disasters strike.

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Budget

California Budget Challenge 2025

April 10, 2025

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Clean Energy

2024 California Green Innovation Index

December 12, 2024

The 16th annual California Green Innovation Index is primarily digital, allowing readers to learn and interact with the findings of the report in an interactive medium.

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