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🔌 New blog post: the new data center environmental numbers are in, and a year of real data beats a decade of projections. Power forecasts went up, Google's water use jumped 34% in one year, and the honest summary is: globally modest, locally severe, growing fast.
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Featured source, the DOE lab's revised forecast: seta.lbl.gov/publications/unit…
#AI #DataCenters #Energy
⚡ The US is spending $650B on AI this year. China spent about $100B. But China added 8x more power capacity in 2025, and its models cost a quarter as much to run.
The AI race everyone's watching is about which model is best. The race that actually matters is about who can keep the lights on.
China treats electricity as infrastructure. State credit, central planning, 540 GW of new capacity in a single year. The US treats it as a market commodity, and now sits on a gas turbine backlog stretching 5-7 years out.
The US still has the best models. But the best model in the world is useless if you can't power it.
The #Trump admin has officially signed a #nuclear agreement with #SaudiArabia that officials have said could lead to the kingdom enriching its own fuel for nuclear reactors. #Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Wednesday afternoon that he had signed the deal with Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, the Saudi minister of energy.
#geopolitics #MiddleEast #proliferation
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I mean seriously.
This from a guy who rolled back #environmental #regulations, claims #ClimateChange is a hoax, actually spent #TaxpayersMoney to NOT build green #energy solutions, &—oh yeah—says we just need to “rake the leaves” off forest floors to avoid #wildfires -- BUT gutted the freaking EPA, NPS & anyone who might be slightly capable of detecting/preventing fires.
Moron.
#Trump says he’s holding #Canada responsible for #wildfire #smoke, threatens #tariffs.
⚛️ The first nuclear plant restart in US history is underway in Michigan - but it's way behind schedule.
Holtec bought the Palisades plant after it shut down in 2022 and has been trying to bring it back online ever since. The 54-year-old reactor just cleared its major renovations, with about 5,000 routine maintenance items left on the checklist. Holtec says that's comparable to a standard refueling outage.
The catch: they originally planned to restart in late 2025, then early 2026, then February 2026. All missed. As of mid-July, still no firm date - though the CEO says he expects it to happen this year.
If successful, it would set a precedent for other shuttered plants considering restarts, including the former Three Mile Island site (now backed by Microsoft) and Google's deal to restart a plant in Iowa.
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#nuclear #energy #michigan #Palisades
America’s first nuclear plant restart may be near the finish line
After a few missed targets, Holtec says the remaining tasks to bring Michigan’s Palisades plant back online are equal to restoring service after a routine…Canary Media
#solarpunk #solarpunksunday #energy #fossilfuels
Switzerland is densely cloudy in winter when energy is needed the most. So engineers installed solar panels above the clouds on the sides of mountains. It’s so effective that they’re expanding the project to other mountains.
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Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said
High in the Swiss Alps, on a concrete dam wall more than 8,000 feet above the sea, someone bolted thousands of solar panels to a place almost no one thoughtHugo Rojas (ecoportal.net)
🔌 Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity
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#datacenters #ireland #ai #energy
Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity
Consumption rose another 10% while restrictions on most new grid connections remained around DublinDan Robinson (theregister)
#GlobalEconomy, Hit by #IranWar & #Inflation, Faces Sharp Slowdown
The #IMF projected world output growth would fall to 3% for the year, a number pushed down by high commodity prices.
#TrumpsWar #idiocracy #kakistocracy #Trump #Netanyahu #InternationalLaw #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #economy #inflation #affordability #CostOfLiving #oil #energy #EnergyCrisis
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#EVE #Energy liefert die #Batterietechnik der Zukunft. Von #BMW bis zum #Megaspeicher.
Doch #EVE_Energy entwickelt nicht nur Batteriezellen für #Elektroautos: Das Unternehmen zeigt auch große #Energiespeicherlösungen für Industrie und #Energieversorgung. Im Video schauen wir uns die Technologie, die Zusammenarbeit mit #BMW und die Zukunft moderner #Batteriespeicher genauer an.
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The punishing heatwave exposes cracks in France’s nuclear power fleet.
Three French nuclear plants halted production during this week’s record-breaking heatwave as rivers became too warm to cool them, raising questions over the long-term future of Europe’s biggest nuclear fleet.
