AI, Data Centers, Direct Air Capture, and Renewables

Credit to Author: Scott Cooney| Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 08:30:26 +0000

3% of the world’s electricity is used by data centers. That’s up from, well, zero, not too long ago.  It’s everything from iCloud to websites to cat videos to Instagram reels to Facetime calls. A blog post uses a lot less data than a podcast, which uses less than a … [continued]

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Google Bets Big on Nuclear: Inks Deal with Kairos Power for 500-MW SMR Fleet to Power Data Centers

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 22:57:04 +0000

In a deal that marks the first corporate agreement to deploy multiple small modular reactors (SMRs) in the U.S., Kairos Power and Google have signed a Master Plant Development Agreement […]

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Architect’s rendering of the Hermes Low-Power Demonstration Reactor facility

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Google Bets Big on Nuclear, Inks Deal with Kairos Power for 500-MW SMR Fleet to Power Data Centers

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 22:57:04 +0000

In a deal that marks the first corporate agreement to deploy multiple small modular reactors (SMRs) in the U.S., Kairos Power and Google have signed a Master Plant Development Agreement […]

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Decarbonizing Data Centers — It’s Fun!

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2022 17:10:42 +0000

Hitachi data decarbonization CleanTech TalkDecarbonizing data centers is a topic we’ve covered for many years. Just doing a quick search, I found several articles I wrote about data center decarbonization efforts back in 2011, more than a decade ago. However, discussion of the topic is normally kept quite simple, with the focus being on how much a company or […]

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