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The fossil fuel comeback is here

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The US is building more fossil fuel infrastructure than it has in a decade while renewable energy growth slows down, a new report shows. Electricity demand is also climbing faster than it has in more than a decade with more data centers, factories, and electric vehicles plugging into the grid. Despite those growing demands, the […]

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Amazon is funding a new nuclear plant in Indiana

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Amazon has signed an agreement with X-energy and American Electric Power (AEP) to fund the building of a new nuclear energy facility in Indiana. The proposed plant, which would replace the now defunct coal-fueled Breed Generating Station in Fairbanks, Sullivan County, aims to provide up to 960 megawatts of carbon-free energy for both the regional […]

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Google’s power-hungry data centers crave nuclear energy

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Google announced a new agreement to update six nuclear power plant sites across the US as the tech giant seeks to generate more electricity for its power-hungry data centers. Google signed the 20-year deal with Constellation, the leading nuclear power plant operator in the US. The power purchase agreement is meant to guarantee the revenue […]

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If a data center is camouflaged in the woods, will anyone hate it?

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San Antonio City Councilmember Ric Galvan remembers when data centers first arrived in his city in the 2000s, looking like relatively unassuming office buildings. But that’s changed in recent years, as data centers have grown into massive “hyperscale” facilities spanning millions of square feet and housing the physical infrastructure for AI. There are now more […]

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Trump finalizes rule to make cars less fuel efficient

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The US Department of Transportation finalized its plans today to weaken fuel efficiency standards, calling it “among the largest deregulatory actions under the second Trump Administration.” It’s a nail in the coffin for Biden-era standards that would have required fleet average fuel economy to reach 50.4 miles per gallon by model year 2031. President Donald […]

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Jensen Huang talks about AI and climate change like a supervillain

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As Jensen Huang puts it, AI can help fight climate change – but only if it inflicts “an enormous amount of pain and suffering” first. The Nvidia CEO discussed the future of energy and AI’s impact on our planet in the latest episode of The Ezra Klein Show. But his comments boil down to the […]

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Data centers are black boxes, but California wants to change that 

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a slate of bills on Monday that could finally give communities better data – and more say – on how data centers impact their electricity bills and water supply. As data centers invade a growing number of communities across the US, they’ve triggered protests over how the infrastructure underpinning AI […]

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Humans, not rogue AI, are still the biggest cybersecurity risk to energy systems

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Before recent high-profile hacks raised the specter of AI possibly “killing all humans,” our energy systems were already disturbingly vulnerable to cyberattack – and the risk is growing. “We were always prey. We were just kind of surviving at the appetite of our predators,” Joshua Corman, executive in residence for public safety and resilience at […]

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Virginia governor creates an AI task force and moves to restrain data centers

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Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) ordered the state government to take steps that could empower local communities to have a larger say in data center development and slow down approvals in a state that is already home to the data center capital of the world. Executive Order 22 bans executive branch officials from signing non-disclosure […]

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