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Data Center Emissions Much Higher Than Reported

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Credit 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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Ohio PUC Struggles To Balance Demands Of Data Centers And Utility Company

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Credit 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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New Waymo Driver — Cheaper, Drives in More Weather

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Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 11:09:34 +0000

Waymo continues to trudge forward, and it is reporting notable improvements in its brand new 6th-generation Waymo Driver. The funny thing, as I’m writing this, is I still remember the first Google self-driving cars I saw and recorded with an old-school digital camera in 2006. That was 18 years ago! … [continued]

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Weird & Wacky Ways Of Powering Data Centers Are Under Consideration

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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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Google Agrees To Buy 115 MW Of Geothermal Power From Fervo & NV Energy

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Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 15:40:38 +0000

Google has signed an agreement with NV Energy, part of the Warren Buffett empire, to buy 115 MW of renewable energy from a geothermal facility operated by Fervo Energy to power its data centers in Nevada. A lot has been written lately, particularly here at CleanTechnica, about data centers and … [continued]

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Data Centers & AI Are Sucking Up Huge Amounts Of Renewable Energy

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Credit 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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Waste Heat From Google Data Center To Warm A Town In Finland

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Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 16:16:53 +0000

Google, Amazon, Meta, and other data center operators are finding ways to use the heat they generate to benefit communities.

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Google Maps Now Offers EV Charger Locations & Intelligence-Powered Summaries

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Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2024 20:16:45 +0000

If you drive an electric vehicle that’s not a Tesla, then you have experienced the tension that comes with leaving home for trips and wondering if there will be a charger on your route. We know that there is no retail category where a driver can be confident that an … [continued]

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POWER Notebook: New Projects For Energy Storage, Community Solar, Electric Buses; Google Announces PPA

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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2023 14:32:13 +0000

An Arizona utility plans to build a battery energy storage system (BESS) that will help it store more of the region’s abundant solar energy, enabling the power to be used […]

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The POWER Interview: Supporting Real-Time Visibility Along the Power Grid

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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2023 21:02:02 +0000

The power grid is stressed. Aging infrastructure is a problem, exacerbated by extreme weather events that increasingly threaten reliability and result in outages. The integration of more renewable energy resources, […]

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