Interactive IEA tracker shows where AI is guzzling the most energy Observatory maps datacenter hubs and power demand worldwide Systems19 Jun 2025 | 4
MIT boffins claim liquid sodium battery could one day power aircraft while sucking up CO2 Prototype packs triple the energy density of lithium-ion, they claim Science28 May 2025 | 53
AI's enormous energy appetite can be curbed, but only through lateral thinking Opinion Nothing will change while big tech sets the rules. We'll need someone even scarier On-Prem27 May 2025 | 18
Estimating AI energy usage is fiendishly hard – but this report took a shot And it gets even harder when you try to estimate CO2 emissions AI + ML21 May 2025 | 11
DARPA zaps popcorn with laser power beamed 5.3 miles through air 800-watt demo breaks distance record for optical energy transmission Science19 May 2025 | 37
Google tries to greenwash massive AI energy consumption with another vague nuclear deal Chocolate Factory promises early-stage capital to atomic upstart Elementl AI Infrastructure Month07 May 2025 | 22
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