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Wildfire Climate Misinformation Is Rampant, And Social Media Platforms Are Promoting It

January 11, 2025 admin 0 Comments climate change, climate misinformation, events, Media, meta, Wildfires

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 04:47:44 +0000

Devastating consequences of the climate crisis are being submerged by climate misinformation messengers, who are persuaded by a self-serving but very powerful minority to mistrust scientific evidence. In many cases such disbelief emerges from social media affordances, which could actually be tapped as a source for rapid public information dissemination … [continued]

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Generational Shift—Data Centers Bring Change to Energy Landscape

January 8, 2025 admin 0 Comments AI, Amazon, Artificial Intelligence, Business, data centers, full coverage, google, meta, news, Nuclear, power, Power Demand, Technology

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 19:12:22 +0000

Deals involving the data center sector are occurring regularly, as tech companies make moves to ensure they have a reliable supply of power for their energy-intensive operations. Several generation types, […]

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Tech Giant Meta Seeking Nuclear Power to Support Data Centers

December 4, 2024 admin Amazon, data centers, google, meta, microsoft, natural gas, news, Nuclear, power, Power Demand, rfp, Technology

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 21:42:45 +0000

Facebook parent Meta wants to find developers that can provide nuclear reactors to support electricity demand from the tech company’s data centers and artificial intelligence (AI) efforts. The group said […]

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Record Levels of Solar & Storage Installed for Tech, Retail, & Manufacturing Giants in USA

November 24, 2024 admin apple, batteries, clean power, Energy Storage, Facebook, google, green economy, Home Depot, kohl's, lithium-ion batteries, market research, meta, research, seia, Solar energy, solar energy industries association (seia), solar power plants, target, WALMART

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 02:07:48 +0000

Despite current circumstances, corporations in the US are spending heavily on solar and energy storage to power their operations. On that topic, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) just released its annual Solar Means Business report. Joe Biden’s efforts as president of the United States to create green policies will … [continued]

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Cologix Plans $7 Billion, 800-MW Data Center Complex in Ohio

November 21, 2024 admin aep ohio, Amazon, cologix, data center, data centers, google, meta, microsoft, news, Ohio, power

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 20:57:00 +0000

A company that provides connectivity and colocation services for customers across North America has announced plans to build a data center campus in Central Ohio. Cologix, headquartered in Denver, Colorado, […]

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The Great AI/Data Center Scam

November 9, 2024 admin AI, Amazon, apple, Artificial Intelligence, consumer technology, data centers, energy efficiency, google, meta, microsoft, pjm, pjm interconnection, policy & politics, tesla, xai

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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Power Demand from Data Centers Keeping Coal-Fired Plants Online

October 17, 2024 admin alphabet, amazon web services, ammonia, aws, Business, chevron, Coal, data centers, dc byte, enchanted rock, Georgia, google, Legislative, meta, micrograms, microgrid, microsoft, news, Nuclear, plant vogtle, power, Renewables, Research and Development, shell, Stanford, Technology, Utah, Virginia

Credit 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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Data Center Emissions Much Higher Than Reported

September 19, 2024 admin AI, Amazon, Artificial Intelligence, clean power, data centers, google, green economy, meta, microsoft

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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RWE Signs PPAs With Meta for Power from Solar Farms

August 13, 2024 admin county run solar, Facebook, Illinois, lafitte solar, Louisiana, meta, news, power, power purchase agreements, ppa, Renewables, rwe, Solar

Credit 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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