Data Centers
Video: How the AI boom is powered by legal loopholes and secret deals
Floodlight teams up with PBS to investigate OpenAI’s flagship data center.
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Evan Simon is an investigative producer at Floodlight. A Peabody Award nominee and the winner of two National Emmy Awards, Evan leads Floodlight’s visual and video-based storytelling.
Public Lands
Trump officials, billionaires and the quiet reshaping of America's public lands
A controversial land swap orchestrated by the megarich could be “a harbinger of what’s to come” for public lands under Trump.
Public Lands
Video: The secret billionaire's club reshaping America's public lands
Rare drone footage provides a glimpse into the controversial mountaintop retreat.
Data Centers
Mississippi regulators greenlight xAI’s Southaven power plant despite strong public opposition
Here’s what Southaven’s residents think about the state greenlighting an xAI power plant expansion in their community
Data Centers
Video: We caught Elon Musk's AI company flouting EPA rules using a thermal drone
xAI’s Grok chatbot is powered by unpermitted gas turbines at a Mississippi power plant. Here's how we know.
Data Centers
Inside the reporting: Using a thermal drone to investigate xAI’s power plant
A Q&A with reporter Evan Simon on how this first-of-its-kind investigation came together.
Data Centers
'A different set of rules': Thermal drone footage shows Musk's AI power plant flouting clean air regulations
Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship data centers.
Leaving Home
‘We are forgotten here’: As NYC builds seawalls, this Queens community feels left behind.
A decade after city officials promised to cut flood risks in the Edgemere neighborhood, critics say it remains just as vulnerable.
Leaving Home
As millions face climate relocation, the nation’s first attempt sparks warnings and regret
Three years after a federally funded move, Indigenous residents of Louisiana’s Isle de Jean Charles report broken homes — and promises
LNG
Trump-fueled gas boom has fenceline Gulf Coast communities on edge
Residents cite pollution, loss of fishing and diminished tax revenue as liquefied natural gas production accelerates here, feeding demand from Europe and Asia