AI
Tech Loves Nukes?!
Daily Standup Top Stories Tech Industry Wants to Lock Up Nuclear Power for AI July 1, 2024 Stu Turley Largest tech companies are looking to buy nuclear power directly from plants, which could sap the grid […]
AI
Will Evil Google’s AI Demands Exact A High Price from New Yorkers Who Foolishly Went for Solar and Wind? Could Be!
I received a very interesting email yesterday from a reader. It suggested Google, which already has roughly 40 data centers around the world, may be planning another in the vicinity of Spring City, Chester County, Pennsylvania […]
Climate Crisis
Google Censors Government Data As ‘Unreliable And Harmful’ For Contradicting Climate Doom
Google is demonetizing sites by claiming official government information that undermines climate change dogma is false. Earlier this week, we published an editorial arguing that government data didn’t support various claims about climate change. [emphasis, […]
Finance
Despite Alphabet’s Layoffs at Google, Headcount Increased for Second Quarter in a Row. But the Huge Hiring Binge Is Over
As Powell said, the labor market is rebalancing; it’s still tight, but it’s not out of whack anymore. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. Just briefly here, because we’re tracking actual employment counts versus widely trumpeted and scary […]
Electrical Generation / Utilities
Google inks its largest offshore wind power deal
CrossWind Google has penned its biggest deal yet to purchase offshore wind power for its data centers in Europe. The tech giant has signed up to offtake 478 MW of two wind farms off the […]
Climate Crisis
Daily Energy Standup Episode #259 – Geothermal Breakthrough, Alberta’s Power Struggles, and China’s Energy Surge
Daily Standup Top Stories A New Type of Geothermal Power Plant Just Made the Internet a Little Greener November 28, 2023 Mariel Alumit Earlier this month, one corner of the internet got a little bit greener, […]
Geothermal
A New Type of Geothermal Power Plant Just Made the Internet a Little Greener
Earlier this month, one corner of the internet got a little bit greener, thanks to a first-of-its-kind geothermal operation in the northern Nevada desert. Project Red, developed by a geothermal startup called Fervo, began pushing […]
Zero Edge
Google Tests AI Tool To ‘Help’ Journalists Write News Articles
Google has reportedly been testing an AI-powered technology that will automate the production of news content, and probably put thousands of NPC journalists out of a job. Known internally as “Genesis,” the new project […]
Aljazeera International
Google developing AI tools to help journalists report the news – This can’t be good
Economy Google is developing artificial intelligence-enabled tools to help journalists research and write news articles, a development that is likely to rattle nerves across the media industry after years of painful job cuts. Google is […]
Aljazeera International
Google developing AI tools to help journalists report the news – This can’t be good
Economy Google is developing artificial intelligence-enabled tools to help journalists research and write news articles, a development that is likely to rattle nerves across the media industry after years of painful job cuts. Google is […]