The nation’s largest developers and operators of home battery storage, smart thermostats, and vehicle-to-grid systems can orchestrate more than 16 GW of home energy resources to help meet surging electricity demand from data centers and AI growth, while helping lower household energy costs. Sunrun (Nasdaq: RUN), Renew Home, and Tesla … [continued]
After spending years as one of the nation’s biggest data center supporters, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has issued a hollow executive order calling for guardrails that would do far too little to protect Louisianans from the impacts of the very centers he has been courting. In response, Sierra Club issued the … [continued]
Kevin O’Leary is a media star who is known as Mr. Wonderful on the reality TV show Shark Tank. Recently, he placed his boldest bet yet, on Stratos, a proposed data center in Utah that he said would create thousands of jobs, add millions of dollars in revenue for local … [continued]
In 1995, computer scientist Niklaus Wirth published the article “A Plea for Lean Software” in the magazine Computer. Its thesis seems to suggest that AI based on neural networks may be doomed to fail, not because of a lack of electrical energy, but because of software inefficiency. The experience of … [continued]
xAI is hiding behind the skirts of Uncle Sam and the DOJ to dodge its legal obligations not to poison people with its activities.
Coal is the big winner in the energy sweepstakes as the US administration moves to shove expensive electricity down people’s throats.
Underwater data centers are technically real, but cooling advantage alone does not erase maintenance, grid, cable, permitting, and scale constraints.
China now has commercial underwater data centers, and that is worth taking seriously. It is also worth not losing our minds over it, which is apparently harder than it should be whenever servers, seawater, and artificial intelligence appear in the same sentence. The basic pitch is attractive. Data centers generate … [continued]
INDIANAPOLIS — NIPSCO GenCo recently signed a 12-year contract with Halldor Energy Company to power new Google (Michigan City) and Amazon data centers with its Merom coal-fired power plant. The Michigan City data center would be Google’s first in the country to contract for a coal plant’s capacity, to Sierra Club knowledge– … [continued]
Opposition to AI and the enormous data centers it will need in the future is growing in the US, as people begin to see the risks.
ChatGPT generated image of offshore wave generation unit AI inference engine communicating with low-earth orbit satellites
I have been seeing LinkedIn posts about Panthalassa’s wave-powered AI data-center concept recently, and the reaction they’ve been getting is familiar. Big funding round. AI power bottleneck. Ocean energy. No grid connection. No land constraint. Autonomous machines. A new category. It had all the ingredients of a story built to … [continued]
