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Reducing Data Center Peak Cooling Demand and Energy Costs With Underground Thermal Energy Storage

February 6, 2025 admin batteries, data centers, Energy Storage, geothermal technologies office, lithium-ion batteries, national renewable energy laboratory (nrel), nrel, thermal energy storage, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 04:31:36 +0000

As US Data Centers Continue To Grow, Integrating Geothermal UTES Cooling Could Change the Game As the demand for U.S. data centers grows with the expansion of artificial intelligence, cloud services, and big data analytics, so do the energy loads these centers require. By some estimates, data center energy demands … [continued]

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Texas A&M Launches SMR ‘Energy Proving Ground’ with Selection of Four Nuclear Firms

February 4, 2025 admin advanced nuclear, Business, clean energy solutions, data centers, energy proving ground, engineering, ercot power, Fuel, full coverage, news, Nuclear, nuclear energy research, nuclear innovation, power, Power Demand, power grid resilience, r&d, Research and Development, small modular reactors, smr development, Technology, texas, texas a&m rellis, trends

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:48:21 +0000

Texas A&M University System has unveiled four nuclear developers with which it plans to explore building and operating small modular reactor plants (SMRs) at its Texas A&M-RELLIS campus near College […]

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Data Centers Consume 3% of Energy in Europe: Understand Geographic Hotspots and How AI Is Reshaping Demand

January 31, 2025 admin AI, Artificial Intelligence, Business, data centers, Europe, full coverage, International, news, power, Power Demand, power podcasts, Technology

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 20:38:44 +0000

The rapid rise of data centers has put many power industry demand forecasters on edge. Some predict the power-hungry nature of the facilities will quickly create problems for utilities and […]

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Five Things to Know About Power Supply to Data Centers

January 31, 2025 admin Business, data centers, news, power, Power Demand, Power supply, sidley, Technology

Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 22:22:49 +0000

As the demand for artificial intelligence (AI), and data and cloud services increases, the U.S. is seeing a rapid rise in data center development and a surge in demand for […]

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Five Trends Shaping the Future of Demand Response in 2025

January 30, 2025 admin Artificial Intelligence, caiso, climate change, Commentary, data centers, demand response, electrification, enel north america, pjm, power, Power Demand, power grid, severe weather, trends

Credit to Author: Molly Jerrard| Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 21:38:03 +0000

The energy grid is confronting unprecedented challenges, including surging demand, aging infrastructure, and the increasing frequency of extreme weather events. A deep freeze across the East Coast recently generated an […]

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DeepSeek Sparks Demand Debate, While Chevron Plans Gas-Fired Plants for Data Centers

January 28, 2025 admin Business, China, Coal, Commentary, data centers, deepseek, Gas, Markets, natural gas, news, Nuclear, power, Power Demand, Renewables, Solar, Technology, Wind

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 22:14:49 +0000

The debate over just how much power will be needed to support the artificial intelligence (AI) industry became heated when a Chinese company said it has a low-cost AI model […]

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India Energy Group Plans ‘World’s Largest’ Data Center

January 27, 2025 admin Coal, data centers, India, International, jensen huang, mukesh ambani, news, Nuclear, nvidia, power, renewable energy, Renewables

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2025 17:52:04 +0000

India’s government is pledging billions in financial support for the country’s ambitions around artificial intelligence (AI), and a Mumbai-headquartered energy group has said it plans to build what it calls […]

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Blackstone to Acquire 774-MW Virginia Gas Plant in ‘Data Center Alley’ in Reported $1B Deal

January 25, 2025 admin blackstone, Business, combined cycle power plants, data center, data centers, energy demand, energy infrastructure investment, full coverage, Gas, Markets, natural gas, natural gas turbines, news, potomac energy center, power for ai, siemens, Technology, trends

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2025 21:09:41 +0000

Prominent private equity investment firm Blackstone has agreed to acquire the 774-MW Potomac Energy Center—a natural gas power plant located in Virginia’s “Data Center Alley”—in a deal reportedly valued at […]

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Bill Gates’ TerraPower Has Deal to Use Nuclear Power for Data Centers

January 25, 2025 admin Amazon, Bill Gates, Business, data centers, google, microsoft, news, Nuclear, power, sabey data centers, small modular reactors, smrs, terrapower, three mile island

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2025 15:48:58 +0000

TerraPower, the nuclear energy company founded by former Microsoft CEO and co-founder Bill Gates, announced it has a memorandum of understanding with a major U.S. data center developer to deploy […]

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