When Amazon announced this month that it had achieved 100% renewable energy seven years ahead of schedule, that sounded like really good news for Virginia. Amazon owns more data centers here than anyone else, and data center […]
Data centres in Ireland now account for over a fifth of the country’s metered electricity consumption, according to the latest figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO). In 2023, data centres used 21% of the […]
Google’s recent announcement of a 48% rise in climate emissions since 2019 points the finger at artificial intelligence. This surge is linked to the booming data centre construction by US tech giants, who claim AI […]
Grid-enhancing technologies (GETs) can increase the capacity, efficiency, reliability, and safety of existing transmission lines. GETs can reduce congestion costs, improve the integration of renewables, increase capacity, and provide grid service applications in new and […]
Before everything got disrupted by the attempt on President Trump’s life, I had written a post last week titled “Big Tech On The Path To Net Zero.” That post looked at the most recently issued […]
Daily Standup Top Stories Global Tech Outage Wreaks Havoc July 20, 2024 Mariel Alumit The disruption underscores just how reliant much of the world is on key software providers. Digital Disruption International air travel, financial services, […]
The disruption underscores just how reliant much of the world is on key software providers. Digital Disruption International air travel, financial services, medical systems, and television broadcasts briefly ground to a halt on Friday after […]
Global electricity demand is expected to increase by approximately 4% in 2024, rising from 2.5% in 2023. This projected growth rate would be the highest since 2007, excluding the significant spikes following the global financial […]
The laptop class has rediscovered a basic truth: foundational innovation, once adoption proceeds at scale, is followed by an epic increase in energy consumption. It’s an iron law of our universe. To illustrate that law, […]
In 1979, a partial meltdown of a reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant along the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania brought America’s nuclear fears to life. For the past five years, that plant has been dormant, […]
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