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The AI Boom’s Dirty Secret: Reviving Polluting ‘Peaker’ Plants
In Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood, the aging Fisk power plant, owned by NRG Energy, was set to retire next year. However, rising electricity demands from...
Grid Reforms and Data Centers Spark Global Battery Boom
A reform in China's electricity market is enhancing the economics of energy storage as global demand increases, leading to significant growth for Chinese energy...
Qatar’s Energy Advantage Powers Its AI Push in the Gulf
Qatar is trying to catch up in the artificial intelligence (AI) race in the Gulf, relying on its low-cost energy and financial resources. The...
The AI Boom’s Cooling Problem: How Heat Threatens Tech Progress
The increase in data centers, due to companies outsourcing data storage and using energy-intensive artificial intelligence, is creating challenges in maintaining cool environments. A...
AI Spending Spree Fails to Shake Alphabet’s Cash Flow Dominance
Three major U. S. technology companies, Alphabet (Google's parent), Microsoft, and Meta (Facebook's owner), announced plans to increase capital spending next year, focusing on...
Beyond Megawatts: Water as the Hidden Backbone of AI and Energy Infrastructure
The exponential rise in electricity demand, driven by AI infrastructure and high-performance computing, has introduced new stressors. Water is a critical yet often overlooked...
Bezos Wants to Take Data Centres Off-Planet
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, announced that within the next 10 to 20 years, large data centres will be built in space, which...
Digital Colonialism: How Data Empires Are Rewriting Global Sovereignty
As digital infrastructure spreads, a new kind of empire building is underway, one driven not by armies but by data. Today’s tech giants and...
The Zero-sum Game of Digitalization: Data Centre Expansion and Sustainability Dilemma
Amid climate change, digitalization becomes a dilemma. Europe, a continent committed to sustainability, is caught in this challenge. As digitalization expands, companies build more...
Nuclear Energy for AI Data Centers
It is widely recognized that the Fourth Industrial Revolution will be driven by technological advancements in Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Internet of Things and...