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U.S. electricity grid stretches thin as data centers rush to turn on onsite generators — Meta, xAI, and other tech giants race to solve AI's insatiable power appetite (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-05 | by Jowi Morales | get Data center → | tags: center, centers, data centers

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Tech stocks will stall, electricity will get cheaper and . . . the U.S. will win the World Cup? 8 bold business predictions for 2026 (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-05 | get Smart Grid → | tags: attempts, attempts guess, ball

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PG&E outages in S.F. leave 130k without electricity (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-21 | get Smart Meter → | tags: electricity, leave, leave electricity

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A train-sized tunnel is now carrying electricity under South London (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-20 | get Electricity → | tags: cross, hurst, london

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Don’t expect Trump Media’s nuclear fusion power plant to generate electricity soon (theverge.com)

2025-12-19 | by Justine Calma | get Nuclear Fusion Reactor → | tags: energy, fusion, fusion power

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AI's Water and Electricity Use Soars In 2025 (slashdot.org)

2025-12-18 | get Smart Home Appliances → | tags: power, vries, vries gao

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Democratic lawmakers are investigating data centers’ impact on electricity costs (theverge.com)

2025-12-17 | by Justine Calma | get Data Centers → | tags: center, centers, costs

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Changing these 5 TV settings helped cut my electricity bill - and I didn't miss a thing (zdnet.com)

2025-12-17 | by Chris Bayer | get Smart TV → | tags: brightness, consumption, efficient

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AI’s water and electricity use soars in 2025 (theverge.com)

2025-12-17 | by Justine Calma | get Smart Water → | tags: vries, vries gao, water

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Senators probe whether AI data centers are driving up electricity costs (techspot.com)

2025-12-17 | get Data Centers → | tags: amazon, amazon google, blumenthal

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Senators Count the Shady Ways Data Centers Pass Energy Costs On To Americans (slashdot.org)

2025-12-17 | get Data Center → | tags: center, costs, data center

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Who should pay for the power grid’s race to keep up with data centers? (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-12-16 | get Data Center → | tags: built, built electricity, cancellations

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Elizabeth Warren, other U.S. senators concerned about big tech pushing up electricity costs — demands explanation from Amazon, Google, Meta as AI data centers drive up residential energy bills (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-16 | by Stephen Warwick | get Cloud → | tags: centers, data centers, electricity

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Could This Technology Prevent Blackouts? (spectrum.ieee.org)

2025-12-15 | by Qing-Chang Zhong | get Smart Grid → | tags: electricity, energy, grid

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Electricity Is Now Holding Back Growth Across the Global Economy (slashdot.org)

2025-12-15 | by Posted | get Energy Storage → | tags: country, electricity, grid

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Analysis finds anytime electricity from solar available as battery costs plummet (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-13 | by Ryan Kennedy | get Solar Battery → | tags: cost, costs, energy

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Germany Covers Nearly 56 Percent of 2025 Electricity Use With Renewables (slashdot.org)

2025-12-13 | get Wind turbines → | tags: awesome, awesome sight, buried

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China’s AI Power Play: Cheap Electricity From World’s Biggest Grid (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2025-12-11 | get Smart Grid → | tags: china, china electron, electron

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Can This Simple Invention Convert Waste Heat Into Electricity? (slashdot.org)

2025-12-08 | by Posted | get Thermoelectric Generator → | tags: computers, computers unreliable, depends

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There’s Something Very Weird About Blue Origin’s Device That Generates Electricity From Moon Dust (futurism.com)

2025-12-07 | by Victor Tangermann | get Solar Sailer → | tags: amazon, blue, dust

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Bitcoin Miners on the Run After Stealing $1.1 Billion in Electricity (futurism.com)

2025-12-06 | by Victor Tangermann | get Electricity Generators → | tags: bitcoin, bitcoin mining, electricity

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BYD’s Engine Flexes Between Ethanol, Gasoline, and Electricity (spectrum.ieee.org)

2025-12-04 | by Catherine Arnold | get Electric Motor → | tags: brazil, engine, ethanol

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Solar’s growth in US almost enough to offset rising energy use (arstechnica.com)

2025-11-26 | get Solar panels → | tags: demand, electricity, growth

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Engineers are Building the Hottest Geothermal Power Plant on Earth - Next to a US Volcano (slashdot.org)

2025-11-23 | by Posted | get Infrasound Generator → | tags: degrees, electricity, energy

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Britain Sets New Record, Generating Enough Wind Power for 22 Million Homes (slashdot.org)

2025-11-22 | by Posted | get Wind Turbine → | tags: britain, cent, electricity

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Meta wants to get into the electricity trading business (techcrunch.com)

2025-11-22 | by Anthony Ha | get Electricity Trading → | tags: approval, bloomberg, center

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Court Ends Dragnet Electricity Surveillance Program in Sacramento (slashdot.org)

2025-11-22 | get Smart Meter → | tags: enforcement, evidence, law enforcement

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Meta Enters Power Trading To Support Its AI Energy Needs (slashdot.org)

2025-11-21 | by Posted | get Energy Grid → | tags: developers, electricity, meta

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The Download: what’s next for electricity, and living in the conspiracy age (technologyreview.com)

2025-11-20 | by Rhiannon Williams | get Smartphone → | tags: mit technology, review, technology review

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Three things to know about the future of electricity (technologyreview.com)

2025-11-20 | by Casey Crownhart | get Smart Grid → | tags: billion, centers, demand