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How a data center company uses stranded renewable energy

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-02 09:18:54

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. John Belizaire says he has a secret hiding in plain sight. But before revealing it, the CEO of Soluna, a green data center development firm headquartered in Albany, New York, asks people to picture the last time they drove through a gusty stretch of countryside and saw wind turbines in the distance. But when the

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iPhones and iPads now come with EU energy labels, here’s what they reveal

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-02 16:59:31

If you live in the European Union and visit Apple’s website today, you’ll notice a new information snippet alongside iPhones and iPads: colorful energy labels grading each model’s efficiency, durability, and repairability. This change isn’t voluntary, but rather Apple’s compliance with a new EU regulation that just went into effect. The new labels assign each device a grade from A to G for energy efficiency and durability factors, including impact resistance and repairability. But Apple being

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iPhone and iPad now come with EU energy labels, here’s what they reveal

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-02 21:59:31

If you live in the European Union and visit Apple’s website today, you’ll notice a new information snippet alongside iPhones and iPads: colorful energy labels grading each model’s efficiency, durability, and repairability. This change isn’t voluntary, but rather Apple’s compliance with a new EU regulation that just went into effect. The new labels assign each device a grade from A to G for energy efficiency and durability factors, including impact resistance and repairability. But Apple being

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Tesla inks first deal to build China's largest grid-scale battery power plant

cnbc.com Ganesh Rao 2025-09-04 05:48:19

Tesla has inked its first deal to build a grid-scale battery power plant in China amid a strained trading relationship between Beijing and Washington. The U.S. company posted on the Chinese social media service Weibo that the project would be the largest of its kind in China when completed. Utility-scale battery energy storage systems help electricity grids keep supply and demand in balance. They are increasingly needed to bridge the supply-demand mismatch caused by intermittent energy sources

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Transparent specs at last: Why the new smartphone energy labels are a big deal

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-04 05:08:40

Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority TL;DR The European Union has introduced mandatory energy efficiency labels for all smartphones and tablets sold within its region starting today, June 20, 2025. These labels provide detailed information on energy use, battery longevity, drop resistance, IP rating for dust and water resistance, and repairability scores. Complementing this rollout are ecodesign requirements mandating durable batteries, extended software support, readily available spare parts,

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Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-09-06 09:39:01

Over the last several years, fusion power has gone from the butt of jokes — always a decade away! — to an increasingly tangible and tantalizing technology that has drawn investors off the sidelines. The technology may be challenging to master and expensive to build today, but fusion promises to harness the nuclear reaction that powers the sun to generate nearly limitless energy here on Earth. If startups are able to complete commercially viable fusion power plants, then they have the potential

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Inside the US power struggle over coal

technologyreview.com Casey Crownhart 2025-09-07 05:00:00

But the Trump administration wants to keep coal power alive, and the US Department of Energy recently ordered some plants to stay open past their scheduled closures. Here’s why there’s a power struggle over coal. Coal used to be king in the US, but the country has dramatically reduced its dependence on the fuel over the past two decades. It accounted for about 20% of the electricity generated in 2024, down from roughly half in 2000. While the demise of coal has been great for US emissions, the

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Why Some AI Models Spew 50 Times More Greenhouse Gas to Answer the Same Question

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2025-09-07 04:00:55

Like it or not, large language models have quickly become embedded into our lives. And due to their intense energy and water needs, they might also be causing us to spiral even faster into climate chaos. Some LLMs, though, might be releasing more planet-warming pollution than others, a new study finds. Queries made to some models generate up to 50 times more carbon emissions than others, according to a new study published in Frontiers in Communication. Unfortunately, and perhaps unsurprisingly,

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Conserving Qubits by Using Dissipative VQAs for Thermal Prep

computer.org Ilse Paredes 2025-09-07 07:47:02

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) play a significant role in improving the efficiency and accuracy of quantum computers. However, they come with high noise levels, which degrade their performance. Even though current techniques can mitigate their noise, they involve excessive computational overhead, which limits their feasibility. However, in a paper written for IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering, Yigal Ilin and Itai Arad propose incorporating dissipative operations to alleviate the e

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Does the Internet Have an Environmental Impact? Yes, Actually. And It’s Getting Bigger

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-08 16:45:00

Diagnosing the environmental sustainability of the internet might seem, at first, like trying to figure out where the molecules of water in your morning cup of coffee originated. Water is constantly evolving, cycling through our environments and often carrying the secrets of the places it last passed through. The internet, in all its complexity, appears to operate in a similar fashion. Every time we log online, we step foot into an incredibly intricate stream of data, often cycled, reused and e

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Meta Partners With Oakley for Its Next Pair of Smart Glasses

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-10 05:15:53

Tyler Graham Writer Tyler is a writer under CNET's home energy and utilities category. He came to CNET straight out of college, where he graduated from Seton Hall with a bachelor's degree in journalism. For the past seven months, Tyler has attended a White House press conference, participated in energy product testing at CNET's testing labs in Louisville, Kentucky, and written one of CNET Energy's top-performing news articles, on federal solar policy. Not bad for a newbie. When Tyler's not aski

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Sam Altman Says "Significant Fraction" of Earth's Total Electricity Should Go to Running AI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-13 12:07:03

During a recent public appearance, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted that he wants a large chunk of the world's power grid to help him run artificial intelligence models. As Laptop Mag flagged, he dropped that bomb dropped during AMD's AI conference last week after Lisa Su, the CEO of the hosting firm who counts Altman as a client and friend, mentioned ChatGPT's recent outages. Though OpenAI hasn't revealed the exact causes of its massive June outage, there's a good chance it had to do with runni

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DARPA program sets distance record for power beaming

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-13 22:40:40

In a series of recent tests in New Mexico, the Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program achieved several new records for transmitting power over distance. The team recorded more than 800 watts of power delivered during a 30-second transmission from a laser 8.6 kilometers (5.3 miles) away. Over the course of the test campaign, more than a megajoule of energy was transferred. Previously, the greatest reported distance records for an appreciable amount of optical power (>1 microwat

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The Hidden Cost of the Internet: Why the Web's Environmental Impact Matters Now More Than Ever

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-13 17:00:00

Diagnosing the environmental sustainability of the internet might seem, at first, like trying to figure out where the molecules of water in your morning cup of coffee originated. Water is constantly evolving, cycling through our environments and often carrying the secrets of the places it last passed through. The internet, in all its complexity, appears to operate in a similar fashion. Every time we log online, we step foot into an incredibly intricate stream of data, often cycled, reused and e

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Air Conditioners Can Actually Support the Power Grid. Here’s How

gizmodo.com Johanna Mathieu 2025-09-13 21:00:09

As summer arrives, people are turning on air conditioners in most of the U.S. But if you’re like me, you always feel a little guilty about that. Past generations managed without air conditioning – do I really need it? And how bad is it to use all this electricity for cooling in a warming world? If I leave my air conditioner off, I get too hot. But if everyone turns on their air conditioner at the same time, electricity demand spikes, which can force power grid operators to activate some of the

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Are Those Viral ‘Cooling Blankets’ for Real?

wired.com Rhett Allain 2025-09-16 06:00:00

If you spend much time on the internet, you will see the same things pop up again and again. For me, it's these “cooling blankets” that people talk about on social media. I mean, it sounds great for summer—just like a blanket that warms you up but in reverse. Sadly, these products don’t do what they claim. They might be breathable so they don’t make you as hot as an ordinary blanket would, but you’d still be cooler with no blanket at all. However, there is hope. Someone has created a real cooli

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Meta is helping to fund geothermal energy projects in New Mexico

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-16 17:22:22

Meta has entered into an agreement with XGS Energy to develop "next-generation geothermal energy" projects in New Mexico. The plan is for these projects to connect directly into the electrical grid that Meta's data centers draw from, feeding the growing energy needs of the company's AI development. Both companies claim the new deal will add 150-megawatts of carbon-free energy to the grid "with zero operating water use." New Mexico is apparently uniquely suited for geothermal energy production b

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Meta inks a new geothermal energy deal to support AI

theverge.com Justine Calma 2025-09-16 21:00:00

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Meta’s geothermal ambitions are growing with a new agreement to support projects in New Mexico. It announced the deal with XGS Energy today, a company developing next-generation geothermal technologies that make it possible to use this energy source in places where it was unf

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Meta teams with XGS Energy to build a 150 MW geothermal power plant

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-09-16 21:00:00

Meta is the latest tech company to warm to geothermal energy, announcing on Thursday a deal with startup XGS Energy to develop a 150 megawatt geothermal power plant in New Mexico. XGS Energy has yet to say where it’ll be building the power plant, and Meta wouldn’t disclose specifics about the deal other than to say it’s not yet a contract to purchase power, but rather an agreement “to advance geothermal energy development” in the state, a Meta spokesperson told TechCrunch. Recently, tech compa

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Why uranium mining is having a resurgence in the United States

cnbc.com Magdalena Petrova 2025-09-18 05:00:01

From about the 1960s to the mid-1980s, the United States was a leader in uranium mining. But domestic production of the mineral, which is primarily used as fuel for nuclear reactors, has since fallen off a cliff. "A lot of this was because it was a government priority. And we strategically used government funding and subsidies to support it. However, what kind of started happening during the 90s is we saw a de-prioritization away from uranium," said Gracelin Baskaran, director of the Critical M

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These new batteries are finding a niche

technologyreview.com Casey Crownhart 2025-09-18 13:00:00

One researcher I spoke with at the time suggested that sodium-ion batteries might not compete directly with lithium-ion batteries but could instead find specialized uses where the chemistry made sense. Two years later, I think we’re starting to see what those are. One growing segment that could be a big win for sodium-ion: electric micromobility vehicles, like scooters and three-wheelers. Since these vehicles tend to travel shorter distances at lower speeds than cars, the lower energy density o

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Apple enables smart home apps to cut your electricity bills

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-09-18 14:48:47

A new Apple framework makes it easy for developers of smart home apps to help cut your electricity bills. While EnergyKit is currently limited to thermostats and EV chargers, it’s the first step toward optimizing energy usage throughout your entire home. Some smart home devices can already help you reduce power usage and costs, like the Ecobee and Nest thermostats, but EnergyKit takes this much further … There are currently three main ways you can use smart home devices to save money. First,

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Apple Home is expanding its energy management features

theverge.com Jennifer Pattison Tuohy 2025-09-18 15:34:22

Apple’s smart home didn’t get a single nod during the WWDC keynote, but it turns out there are some interesting developments coming to the Home app around energy management. In a video posted to the Apple developer site this week, the company outlined its new EnergyKit framework, which allows developers to integrate energy data from Apple Home in iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 to reduce or shift the electricity usage of their devices to prioritize cleaner and/or less expensive energy. So, for example, yo

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Fervo Energy lands $206M in financing to build massive geothermal power plant

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-09-18 13:31:35

Geothermal frontrunner Fervo Energy said Wednesday that it had secured $206 million in financing to continue work on a new power plant in Utah. The startup is developing what promises to be the largest enhanced geothermal power plant in the world. The initial phase of Cape Station is expected to come online next year and produce 100 megawatts of electricity, and a subsequent expansion set to open in 2028 will add another 400 megawatts. Enhanced geothermal, which runs deeper and hotter than tra

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Posh (YC W22) Is Hiring

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-06-03 11:00:17

About POSH POSH is revolutionizing the battery energy storage industry by providing innovative, intelligent, and sustainable solutions for commercial and industrial (C&I) applications. We help businesses optimize power management and reduce carbon footprints. We are seeking an Energy Analysis & Modeling Engineer to support our mission by developing, analyzing, and optimizing energy storage models that improve system performance, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. Responsibilities Develop, v

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Latest Tech News

How a data center company uses stranded renewable energy

iPhones and iPads now come with EU energy labels, here’s what they reveal

iPhone and iPad now come with EU energy labels, here’s what they reveal

Tesla inks first deal to build China's largest grid-scale battery power plant

Transparent specs at last: Why the new smartphone energy labels are a big deal

Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M

Inside the US power struggle over coal

Why Some AI Models Spew 50 Times More Greenhouse Gas to Answer the Same Question

Conserving Qubits by Using Dissipative VQAs for Thermal Prep

Does the Internet Have an Environmental Impact? Yes, Actually. And It’s Getting Bigger

Meta Partners With Oakley for Its Next Pair of Smart Glasses

Sam Altman Says "Significant Fraction" of Earth's Total Electricity Should Go to Running AI

DARPA program sets distance record for power beaming

The Hidden Cost of the Internet: Why the Web's Environmental Impact Matters Now More Than Ever

Air Conditioners Can Actually Support the Power Grid. Here’s How

Are Those Viral ‘Cooling Blankets’ for Real?

Meta is helping to fund geothermal energy projects in New Mexico

Meta inks a new geothermal energy deal to support AI

Meta teams with XGS Energy to build a 150 MW geothermal power plant

Why uranium mining is having a resurgence in the United States

These new batteries are finding a niche

Apple enables smart home apps to cut your electricity bills

Apple Home is expanding its energy management features

Fervo Energy lands $206M in financing to build massive geothermal power plant

Posh (YC W22) Is Hiring

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