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Neel Somani breaks down the key factors behind East Coast power price spikes

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If you live on the East Coast, you have probably opened a winter utility bill and wondered how your electricity costs could possibly be that high. Every few years, the story makes headlines: a cold snap hits the Northeast, power prices spike to hundreds of dollars, and politicians demand answers. But the real explanation rarely […]

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Microsoft turns to Chevron’s gas to power a Texas data centre

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The Chevron Microsoft gas deal hands the oil major a 20-year contract to power a giant West Texas data centre. For a company that built its AI plans on renewables and nuclear, that is a sharp turn. Chevron will power one of the largest data centres in the United States by burning natural gas. The […]

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A city hit pause on AI data centres. Amazon responded by investigating its own engineers.

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The backlash against AI data centres used to be a local zoning story. This week, it became a fight inside Amazon. Three Amazon engineers, Patrick Schloesser, Darius Irani and Liesl Wigand, say the company placed them under investigation after they testified to Seattle’s city council in favour of regulating data centres. They have filed a […]

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FERC orders a fast lane for data centre grid connections, but the electricity to fill them is another matter

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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday ordered six major grid operators to fast-track interconnection requests from data centres and other large electricity users. Under the directive, approved unanimously, grid operators must demonstrate that data centres are “able to connect to the transmission system in a timely and orderly manner.” Data centres will be responsible for paying […]

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Nvidia-backed Verse raises $54M to help AI data centres skip the power queue

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For years, the scarce resource in AI was chips. Now it is power. Verse Enterprises wants to unblock that bottleneck. The San Francisco startup has raised an oversubscribed $54mn Series B. Bessemer Venture Partners led the round. GV, Nvidia and Norrsken VC also took part. The race to AI is now a race to power […]

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EU tells Big Tech to align AI data centres with climate goals or stay away

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The European Union’s energy chief has told the AI industry it is welcome in Europe, but only on the bloc’s terms. In an interview with Politico, Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen said companies must demonstrate commitment to the EU’s energy, climate, and environmental goals if they want to build data centres on the continent. That means supporting […]

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France breaks EDF’s grip on hydropower with law to auction 6 GW a year

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France’s Parliament adopted a bill on Tuesday that dismantles the monopoly Électricité de France has held over the country’s hydropower market for decades, according to Bloomberg. The law converts EDF’s hydropower concessions into permits and requires the state-owned utility to auction 6 gigawatts of capacity each year under the supervision of France’s energy regulator, CRE. EDF […]

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The bottleneck in geothermal moved from the drill to the turbine. This SpaceX alum raised $22M to fix it

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The race to power artificial intelligence has a problem that solar panels and wind turbines cannot fix on their own: the electricity has to be there at 3am, in still air, under cloud. Critical Energy, a Los Angeles startup founded by a former SpaceX engineer, has raised $22mn to chase that always-on demand with geothermal, […]

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Helion just got the world’s first licences to run a fusion power plant

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Helion has become the first company in the world licensed to operate a fusion power plant. On 16 June, the Washington-based firm said it had received two licences from the state’s Department of Health, clearing a regulatory bar no fusion company has reached before. It is a real milestone. It is also a regulatory one, […]

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Mississippi residents file a 10,000-strong class action against Musk’s xAI and SpaceX over data-centre noise

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The backlash against AI data centres has reached a new stage: a class-action lawsuit. Residents of Mississippi have sued Elon Musk’s xAI and SpaceX, claiming a gas-fired power plant that feeds nearby data centres blasts “omnipresent and inescapable” noise that has eroded their health and home values. The case, made public in federal court in […]

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