Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2024 14:57:12 +0000
Power harmonics close to data centers are more likely to depart from national standards, new research shows. The question is why.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2024 20:17:13 +0000
Space solar technology has created the conditions for launching data centers into orbit, taking advantage of ultra-low energy costs and opportunities for expansion.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 15:27:28 +0000
The explosion in the number of data centers is ramping up demand for electricity. What is the best way to meet that demand?
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Read moreCredit to Author: Nguyen Cong Sang| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 21:12:53 +0000
The Uptime Institute’s Tier standard is a globally recognized framework that classifies data centers into four tiers based on their infrastructure’s reliability, redundancy, and fault tolerance. These tiers—Tier I through […]
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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 19:50:26 +0000
Virginia’s governor and other officials on Dec. 17 said the state has a plan for the world’s first nuclear fusion power plant. Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) on Tuesday announced it […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 13:15:49 +0000
Advanced nuclear firm Oklo has partnered with Switch, a Las Vegas-based data center designer, builder, and operator, to deploy 12 GW of Aurora powerhouses through 2044 in a historic deal […]
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Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 20:21:56 +0000
The world has gone cuckoo for artificial intelligence. AI is virtually all you hear in the news these days. NVIDIA is worth a gazillion dollars because it manufactures the specialized computer chips that data centers need to make AI possible. Microsoft, Apple, Meta, Amazon, and Google are all rushing headlong … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 15:42:13 +0000
Recent news about continued growth in the U.S. energy storage market highlighted continued deployments of grid-scale systems, along with ongoing demand from commercial and industrial and residential sectors. Electric utilities […]
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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 15:20:12 +0000
ExxonMobil is preparing to join the power generation business, seeing an opportunity to support the electricity supply for energy-intensive data centers. The company on Dec. 11 said it is designing […]
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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 23:52:09 +0000
Technology companies are looking at various ways to source electricity for energy-intensive data centers. Google on Dec. 10 unveiled a plan to join with several partners in supporting power generation, […]
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