I’m sure everyone here knows the company Intersect. Just kidding, I assume most people don’t know the company, since I had never run across it before. Apparently, though, it’s a data center and energy infrastructure solutions provider. It builds big power projects for data centers and booming electricity needs. Alphabet, … [continued]
MONTGOMERY, AL. — The Alabama Public Service Commission has approved a two-year rate freeze and large solar power projects for a proposed data center. The Dec. 2 decision is intended to keep energy rates the same until 2028. Research shows that Alabamians pay some of the highest energy bills in the entire nation. Alabama … [continued]
Is AI a curse or a source of hope for humanity? No one really knows. The most we can say is that it is a tool. How we use it is up to us.
Data centers need huge quantities of water to cool their servers, but if that water contains pollutants, more pollution may result.
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin — Today, State Sen. Habush Sinykin and Rep. Angela Stroud introduced new legislation to bolster transparency and accountability as more tech companies look to build data centers across Wisconsin. There is currently no requirement that data centers pay the full costs of the extra infrastructure or pressure on the … [continued]
ChatGPT generated image of urban buildings warmed by data center waste heat on a cold evening, symbolizing digital infrastructure turned into community warmth
Every data center on Earth is a silent furnace. The electricity feeding its processors, memory, and storage does not stay as electricity for long. Each calculation, each query, each AI inference, ends as heat. Nothing is stored chemically or locked away as potential energy. The physics is absolute: every MWh … [continued]
Huntington 1000-megawatt coal-fired power plant. Huntington, Emery County, Utah.
February 10, 2025. Fritz Hasler photo.
The US government has decided to waste taxpayer dollars on an expansion of coal mining on federal lands in several states.
The global firm ENGIE is joining its renewable energy portfolio in Texas with the next-generation data center startup Prometheus Hyperscale (courtesy of ENGIE)
The global firm ENGIE is joining its renewable energy portfolio in Texas with the next-generation data center startup Prometheus Hyperscale.
Collaboration expands Silicon Ranch relationships with both Meta and Central Project supports Meta’s 100% sustainability goal at its first data center in South Carolina Silicon Ranch, owner and operator of one of the nation’s largest fleets of solar facilities and a community-focused energy infrastructure company, will partner with Columbia-based Central Electric … [continued]
ChatGPT generated anoramic image of a diesel burning locomotive pulling oil and coal cars with American flags on the side
Several observers are watching the AI revolution and asking where the electricity for data centers will come from and how much will it cost?
