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The unglamorous truth about the AI boom is that some of its hardest problems are plumbing. As data centres pack more GPUs into every rack and run them hotter, the fluid that keeps the chips from cooking has started, occasionally, to grow bacteria. That is the problem Omen AI has built a company around, and […]
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In the desert outside Zhongwei, in the northwestern region of Ningxia, four dedicated power lines now run from a field of solar panels to a cluster of computers. They do not pass through the public grid. That detail, dull as it sounds, is the whole point. China is encouraging its sprawling data centre industry to […]
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Congress is moving to stop households paying for Big Tech’s AI power bills. A House panel votes this week on a package of measures. The aim is to put AI data centre energy costs back on the companies that create them. As AI drives up electricity bills, Congress wants Big Tech to pick up more […]
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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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Neel Somani breaks down the key factors behind East Coast power price spikes Read More »
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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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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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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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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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’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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