Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 18:24:46 +0000
The AI craze is threatening to overwhelm utility companies who don’t have enough electricity to power new data centers.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 01:33:10 +0000
The power generation sector is looking at numerous ways to provide enough electricity to satisfy demand from data centers. Bloomberg Intelligence recently said its research shows data centers, buildings filled […]
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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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Read moreCredit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2024 20:54:45 +0000
U.S. renewable energy major RWE announced the signing of two long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) that will supply electricity to social media company Meta. The deal is for clean energy […]
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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: Thu, 29 Dec 2022 22:05:06 +0000
Globally, data centers are estimated to account for 1 to 2% of electricity usage. The percentage is higher in Europe, where data centers there consumed 104 TWh of electricity in 2020 — about 3% of all the electricity consumed within the EU. Those data centers create a lot of waste heat. Some of it could […]
Credit to Author: Tim Tyler| Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 17:30:23 +0000
The top five corporate solar users in America, according to the research that tracks and analyzes commercial solar adoption, are Meta, Amazon, Apple, Walmart, and Microsoft. Nearly 19 gigawatts (GW) of on-site and off-site solar capacity have been installed by American enterprises through June 2022, more than double the 9.4 GW added in 2019. This […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2022 17:30:28 +0000
About a year ago, I wrote a series of articles exploring the possible benefits and downsides of Facebook’s Meta’s Metaverse plans. In some ways, referring to it that way isn’t fair, because Oculus (which was bought out by Facebook and became Meta) isn’t the only player in that arena. A growing number of companies were […]
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 05:10:10 +0000
Tesla’s Autopilot team recently visited New Orleans for the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s Director of Autopilot Software, shared a photo of Tesla’s boot with an invitation for those in the area to stop by, talk with the engineers, and see the Cybertruck. The Tesla Autopilot team is at […]
Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2022 16:20:54 +0000
A new 70-megawatt solar power and regenerative agriculture project could help propel Tennessee into the renewable energy big leagues.