Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2024 01:18:25 +0000
The surviving nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island will be restarted to make electricity to power Microsoft data centers.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:24:16 +0000
One thing that frosts my shorts is a press release from some renewable energy developer touting how many homes a new installation can power. The dirty little secret no one wants to talk about is that much of the new renewable energy coming online today will be used to power … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2024 13:43:50 +0000
A struggle over data centers is taking place in Ohio, where the local utility fears it will build more capacity then be deserted by Big Tech.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 15:08:05 +0000
Engineering giant Burns & McDonnell has entered into an agreement with nuclear technology specialist BWXT Technologies to advance the design and development of the BWXT Advanced Nuclear Reactor (BANR). The […]
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Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 15:55:01 +0000
Data centers consume enormous amounts of electricity. They promise to use only renewable energy, but is that realistic?
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 15:02:13 +0000
Data centers use tremendous amounts of electricity and water, but often the public is kept in the dark about such things.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:08:51 +0000
Mention electric cars, and some people will go off on a tirade about how there is not enough electricity to charge them all, and if they happened to be charging at the same time, the electrical grid will implode as transmission wires melt and transformers self-destruct in a shower of … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 07 May 2024 14:42:15 +0000
An executive with the TC Energy, a group that is among the largest operators of natural gas pipelines in North America, said electricity demand from energy-intensive data centers will support […]
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Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 15:25:59 +0000
The demand for electricity is increasing so fast that many in the utility industry are surprised by the spike coming in just a few years.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 17:25:15 +0000
Toyota and Kohler have developed a new commercial scale fuel cell system aimed at pushing diesel generators out of the market for backup power while offering new grid services, too.
The post Toyota Aims To Work Its Fuel Cell Magic With Iconic US Firm Kohler appeared first on CleanTechnica.
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