The Great AI/Data Center Scam

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 18:24:46 +0000

The AI craze is threatening to overwhelm utility companies who don’t have enough electricity to power new data centers.

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Own an Apple Phone & a Gogoro Scooter? Things Just Got A Lot More Convenient

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2023 07:03:08 +0000

Gogoro, a company offering electric mopeds and scooters with removable battery packs, recently announced some cool features for owners of … [continued]

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Apple’s “Live” Photo Feature — Not Just Annoying, It’s Costing You Money & Destroying The Planet — How & Why To Turn It Off

Credit to Author: Scott Cooney| Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2023 20:20:56 +0000

If you own an iPhone, you’re probably aware that the default setting on your camera is to take “Live” photos. According to Apple, this is a recording 1.5 seconds before and after your image is taken, and allows you to do a number of things, like boomerangs. Cute, right? Gimmick at worst, right? Not so […]

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Waste Heat From Data Centers Can Bolster District Heat Systems

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2022 22:05:06 +0000

data center waste heatGlobally, data centers are estimated to account for 1 to 2% of electricity usage. The percentage is higher in Europe, where data centers there consumed 104 TWh of electricity in 2020 — about 3% of all the electricity consumed within the EU. Those data centers create a lot of waste heat. Some of it could […]

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How To Make Your iPhone Charge On Clean Energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 04:57:16 +0000

Writing about Apple’s deep decarbonization efforts recently, I discovered something about my iPhone that I didn’t realize. In the US, if you are on iOS 16, you can now set your phone to charge on clean, green energy as much as possible. What does that mean? If you go to “Battery Health & Charging” and […]

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Apple Pushing For Deeper Decarbonization

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 22:40:04 +0000

Amazon and Apple have announced more efforts toward climate stabilization, equity and inclusion, and deeper decarbonization in the past month and a half. The tech giants have plenty to clean up, but they’ve also been leaders in the adoption of clean renewable energy. Below is a look at some of what Apple has been up […]

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Elon Musk: Tesla Could Be Worth More Than Apple + Saudi Aramco. Stock Market: Not So Fast.

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 03:57:07 +0000

On the Tesla conference call today, the #1 headline grabber was that Tesla CEO Elon Musk now thinks Tesla [NASDAQ:TSLA] could one day become more valuable than Apple and Saudi Aramco currently are combined. That would entail a massive increase in Tesla’s market cap, as the chart below shows. On this afternoon's $TSLA earnings call, […]

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Battery State of Health — What is It? Why is It Important?

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2022 23:31:57 +0000

Lithium-ion batteries are efficient, compact, and have a long lifespan — all factors that enable electric vehicles (EVs), which are powered by these batteries, to be a great substitute for their gasoline counterpart. Transportation is a large contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. By switching to EVs, and away from these highly polluting gasoline vehicles, a […]

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