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Trump's wind farm funding freeze is so much hot air, say states as they blow sueball to Washington

We'd be shocked, just shocked, if Big Tech's renewable energy ambitions aren't known in the White House

On-Prem07 May 2025 | 62

Nationwide power outages knock Spain, Portugal offline

Updated Cyberattack? Bad software update? International oopsie? The cause is unclear, but Iberia is dark

Offbeat28 Apr 2025 | 197

Hydrotreated vegetable oil is not an emission-free swap for diesel in datacenters

Biofuel lowers pollutants, but won't eliminate 'em, and could mean DCs compete for supplies

On-Prem25 Apr 2025 | 31

Datacenters selling power back to the grid? Don’t bet on it, say operators

Analysis Bit barns in Dublin doubled as battery farms, the rest of the world isn’t buying it

CxO17 Apr 2025 | 33

Global datacenter electricity use to double by 2030, say policy wonks. Yup, it's AI

Analysis No worries, just use neural networks to optimize systems powering neural networks

AI + ML12 Apr 2025 | 18

Boffins turn Moon dirt into glass for solar panels, eye future lunar base power

Lugging a solar furnace to melt it could slash the need to launch bulky power gear from Earth

Science08 Apr 2025 | 32

Datacenter vacancies hit record low as power shortages stall projects

Analysis Supply chain and tariffs issues could spell trouble across multiple markets, warns JLL

Systems19 Mar 2025 | 2

Frack to the future? Geothermal energy pitched as datacenter savior

If operators are willing to cough up a 'green premium' and tax credits are not repealed

On-Prem13 Mar 2025 | 55

Amazon, Meta, Google sign pledge to triple nuclear power capacity by 2050

AI doesn't run on fairy dust after all

Systems12 Mar 2025 | 16

Energy trio wants to pipe gas from coal mines to keep datacenter lights on

Nothing says 'sustainable AI' like the burps of Appalachian industry

Systems11 Mar 2025 | 9

Scotland now home to Europe's biggest battery as windy storage site fires up

400MWh now, and 600MWh by next year? Crivens, that's a fat batt!

Science05 Mar 2025 | 251

France tops China’s tokamak record with 22-minute plasma containment run

Nice number, but also not much more than a nice advance

Science20 Feb 2025 | 49

UK electrical utility seeks partner for £81M SAP overhaul as support deadline closes in

Integrations with third-party software await chosen provider

Databases18 Feb 2025 | 11

Our world faces 'unprecedented' spike in electricity demand

And it's not just datacenters driving the need for 3,500 TWh of new energy generation by 2027

On-Prem14 Feb 2025 | 106

Datacenter energy demand in bitbarn 'capital of the world' Virginia nearly doubled in second half of 2024

Dominion Energy already eyeing another 26 GW worth of datacenter demand

On-Prem14 Feb 2025 | 7

UK government insiders say AI datacenters may be a pricey white elephant

Economy-boosting bit barn? Not in my back yard, some locals expected to say

On-Prem12 Feb 2025 | 120

Sri Lanka goes bananas after monkey unplugs nation

Simian saboteur or a grid screaming for modernization?

Offbeat10 Feb 2025 | 46

London has 400 GW of grid requests holding up datacenter builds

And up to 70% of stalled energy generation projects are unlikely to be approved, claims regulator Ofgem

On-Prem10 Feb 2025 | 153

Datacenter energy use to more than double by 2030 thanks to AI's insatiable thirst

Shocking research warns electricity shortages could create construction bottleneck

On-Prem07 Feb 2025 | 21

Amazon-backed X-energy bags $700M more for itty-bitty nuke reactors that don't exist yet

Looking forward to someone putting the new into nuclear

Science06 Feb 2025 | 9

US datacenters in for shock as Canada mulls cutting the juice over Trump tariffs

Updated Short-term result likely to be increased energy prices across the board

On-Prem03 Feb 2025 | 129

With datacenter power crisis looming, US government looks to Constellation

Not just AWS, Microsoft et al that are betting on nuclear energy, 13 federal agencies get in on act too

On-Prem03 Jan 2025 | 10

Screwed by the cloud: Hardware vendors looking for that raison d'refresh

40% of world's servers are 6 years +, drink 66% of DC energy, provide 7% of compute. Please refresh, says HPE

On-Prem02 Jan 2025 | 14

Schneider Electric warns of future where datacenters eat the grid

Report charts four scenarios from 'Sustainable AI' to 'Who Turned Out The Lights?'

On-Prem02 Jan 2025 | 60

Google thinks the grid can't support AI, so it's spending on solar for future datacenters

Deal with Intersect Power will see gigawatts of compute capacity come online

Off-Prem12 Dec 2024 | 59

Investors just can't pull the plug despite datacenters facing AI power crunch

Even if 98% say they're worried about energy availability and reliability

The Future of the Datacenter - 2025 and Beyond27 Nov 2024 | 12

Datacenters could blow up your electric bill thanks to AI

Operators may have to pay more for energy if capacity cannot meet demand

The Future of the Datacenter - 2025 and Beyond22 Nov 2024 | 24

UK energy watchdog slaps down Capita's £130M smart meter splurge

Regulator finds poor planning and overuse of consultants added to costs in ailing rollout

Networks15 Nov 2024 | 174

Euro execs extend net zero timescales amid energy cost and supply crunch

Environmental, social, and governance? Cutting money spent on power is CEOs' priority

On-Prem07 Nov 2024 | 37

Softbank CEO says 'super AI' will arrive in 2035 and cost $9T

Video Oh, and it'll need the total current US power output

AI + ML29 Oct 2024 | 22

Datacenter developer says power issues holding up new builds

'The single biggest constraint is access,' says exec looking to invest 'hundreds of millions'

On-Prem29 Oct 2024 | 49

DoE awards next-gen nuclear fuel contracts backwards

'Deconversion' can begin now, but initial enrichment, transportation and storage to processors is still TBD

Science08 Oct 2024 | 5

If you're excited by that $1.5B Michigan nuke plant revival, bear in mind it's definitely a fixer-upper

Analysis Activists, ex-insider sound the alarm as operator says all is under control

On-Prem04 Oct 2024 | 22

Not just AI datacenters needing own power: Taiwanese server-maker Quanta has bought microgrids

California utilities couldn't deliver for hyperscalers' favorite hardware slinger

Systems04 Oct 2024 | 5

Uncle Sam lends $1.5B to reignite Michigan nuclear plant in 2025

Up and atom!

Public Sector01 Oct 2024 | 52

Microsoft cash to help reignite Three Mile Island atomic plant

We'll have some fission chips, please

On-Prem20 Sep 2024 | 60

Microsoft, BlackRock form fund to sink up to $100B into AI infrastructure

Tech is going to need datacenters and power sources, and a lot of 'em

AI + ML18 Sep 2024 | 6

atNorth plans mega datacenter that will help grow veggies and heat homes

It'll also do computery stuff

On-Prem04 Sep 2024 | 1

Google’s Irish bit barn plans denied over eco shortfall

DCs on the Emerald Isle better be green, says Dublin council - unless your name is Microsoft

Systems27 Aug 2024 | 13

Atlassian CEO's idea to build 4,000-kilometer extension cord plugged in

Giant solar farm in Australia will make 'leccy that flows under the ocean to Singapore

Offbeat21 Aug 2024 | 41

Virginia's datacenters guzzle water like there's no tomorrow, says FOI-based report

AI's thirst for power is only making things worse

On-Prem19 Aug 2024 | 26

Small datacenters face the axe under China's new energy policy

Tech industry told to clean up its act – and help others to do likewise – in pursuit of 2035 'Beautiful China' goal

Off-Prem13 Aug 2024 |

Datacenters guzzled more than a fifth of Ireland's electricity in 2023

Bit barns binge on Emerald Isle power

Systems25 Jul 2024 | 17

Don’t blame AI for rise in carbon emissions, says Google exec

Datacenter pollution is rising... but LLM workload not as big as you think

On-Prem18 Jul 2024 | 16

Biden throws $1.7B at automakers to prepare fading factories for EV production

Ice ICE, baby

Personal Tech11 Jul 2024 | 28

Elexon's Insight into UK electricity felled by expired certificate

Certificate Watch Understanding the power needs of the UK begins with knowing when renewals are due

Security09 Jul 2024 | 11

Utility firms go nuclear over Amazon datacenter power deal

AEP and Exelon challenge electricity arrangement between power plant and colo DC

On-Prem03 Jul 2024 | 2

American interest in electric vehicles short circuits for first time in four years

Funny what happens if you take Tesla out of the numbers, though

Personal Tech28 Jun 2024 | 152

AI's appetite for power could double datacenter electricity bills by 2030

Believe it or not, this is modest relative to other predictions

On-Prem26 Jun 2024 | 13

Google datacenters in Nevada to go full steam ahead with geothermal energy

Part of Mountain View's aim for carbon-free power by 2030

On-Prem13 Jun 2024 | 6

Legendary Glastonbury farm using bovine excreta power plant adds graphene boffinry

This is not BS, it's cutting-edge material science

Science11 Jun 2024 | 35

OpenAI to buy electricity from CEO Sam Altman's nuclear fusion side hustle

Knowing your supplier is always good – and super lab's auditors promise to check for conflicts of interest

AI + ML06 Jun 2024 | 53

Sodium ion batteries: Yet another innovation poised to be dominated by China

Interview Coming SiB boom will be a Chinese one while the West is years behind, industry watcher tells us

On-Prem06 Jun 2024 | 48

High-flying drones on a leash could blow traditional wind turbines away

Bristol researcher granted £375K to improve airborne wind energy systems

Science05 Jun 2024 | 40

Graveyards a favorite haunt for solar farms in Valencia

Because the dead don't really need all this space to themselves, surely?

Offbeat04 Jun 2024 | 11

Energy buffs give small modular reactors a gigantic reality check

Too expensive, slow, and risky for investors, and they're taking focus off renewables, say IEEFA experts

Science03 Jun 2024 | 122