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Electricity Prices are Going Up, and AI Is to Blame

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-12-11 15:25:59

Your electricity bill has likely gone up over the course of the past year. That’s because you’re effectively paying an AI tax. According to a report from Axios, the cost of electricity is climbing across the country, driven primarily by the increasing energy demands of massive data centers being built to train and run AI models. Data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration showed the cost of 1 kilowatt-hour of electricity rose from 16.41 cents to 17.47 cents over the course of the past

Topics: ai centers data energy grid

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What’s Inside the Tiny Miracle Food Pouches That Can Save the Lives of Starving Gazans

wired.com Alex Christian 2025-12-13 06:00:00

Take a peanut-based paste packed with 500 calories and nearly 13 grams of protein. Store it in a 92-gram foil pouch, so it can be easily sucked by starving infants on the front line. No water or refrigeration is required, meaning it can be distributed in drought-hit areas and stored at ambient temperature for up to two years. Just a couple of daily sachets can lead to a 10 percent weight gain over six weeks, sustaining recovery from severe acute malnutrition for less than $60 per child. Saving a

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Unplugging these 7 common household devices helped reduce my electricity bills

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-12-12 23:00:14

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Costs are steadily rising in the US, and energy costs are a prominent example. This is made worse by summer temperatures being at record highs, with heat waves wreaking havoc across various states in the past few weeks. As someone who's gone through a few of these this summer alone, I'm constantly looking for ways to conserve energy. There are many little things you can do that can shave dollars off your monthly energy bill, and they go beyond switching off the lights when you

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Peak Energy just shipped the US's first grid-scale sodium-ion battery

news.ycombinator.com Michelle Lewis 2025-12-12 22:35:56

Peak Energy shipped out its first sodium-ion battery energy storage system, and the New York-based company says it’s achieved a first in three ways: the US’s first grid-scale sodium-ion battery storage system; the largest sodium-ion phosphate pyrophosphate (NFPP) battery system in the world; and the first megawatt-hour scale battery to run entirely on passive cooling – no fans, pumps, or vents. That’s significant because removing moving parts and ditching active cooling systems eliminates fire

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Researchers map where solar energy delivers the biggest climate payoff

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-13 15:21:42

Using advanced computational modeling, a Rutgers professor, in collaboration with researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Stony Brook University, reveal both the immediate and delayed climate benefits of solar power Increasing solar power generation in the United States by 15% could lead to an annual reduction of 8.54 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions, according to researchers at Rutgers, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Stony Brook Univ

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Vast majority of new US power plants generate solar or wind power

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-15 00:37:44

The United States added 22,332 megawatts of power plant capacity in the first half of this year, and the vast majority of it was utility-scale solar, batteries, and onshore wind. Natural gas was next, and there was zero new coal or nuclear, according to the Energy Information Administration. Through 2030, the US energy landscape looks a lot like these last six months in terms of the mix of new power plants, with solar and batteries leading the way, according to the EIA’s list of planned power

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Wyoming could become the first state to supply more electricity to AI than to residents

techspot.com Cal Jeffrey 2025-12-17 23:47:00

Wow: Wyoming could soon host one of the largest AI data centers ever built – one consuming more electricity than every home in the state combined. The scale is staggering and raises urgent questions about how the AI boom will reshape America's energy future. On Monday, Cheyenne Mayor Patrick Collins announced a joint venture between energy infrastructure company Tallgrass and Crusoe, an AI data center developer. The Associated Press notes the facility's first phase would draw 1.8 gigawatts, con

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Wyoming may become the first state to supply more electricity to AI than to residents

techspot.com Cal Jeffrey 2025-12-19 05:47:00

Wow: Wyoming could soon host one of the largest AI data centers ever built – one consuming more electricity than every home in the state combined. The scale is staggering and raises urgent questions about how the AI boom will reshape America's energy future. On Monday, Cheyenne Mayor Patrick Collins announced a joint venture between energy infrastructure company Tallgrass and Crusoe, an AI data center developer. The Associated Press notes the facility's first phase would draw 1.8 gigawatts, con

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Superhot geothermal energy could unearth big power boost for the AI era

cnbc.com Diana Olick 2025-12-20 00:14:53

Geothermal energy has been used for thousands of years, powering heating systems as early as the 14th century. It's getting a big upgrade. Beyond geothermal, there's superhot geothermal, which uses ultra-deep drilling to access extremely hot rocks, extracting 5 to 10 times more power per well. Quaise Energy, a Massachusetts-based startup, is in the market developing the technology, which involves an electromagnetic beam that vaporizes rock. The company's systems are able to reach superhot geot

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Tesla picks LGES, not CATL, for $4.3 billion storage battery deal

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-20 20:40:11

Tesla has a new battery cell supplier. Although the automaker is vertically integrated to a degree not seen in the automotive industry for decades, when it comes to battery cells it’s mostly dependent upon suppliers. Panasonic cells can be found in many Teslas, with the cheaper, sturdier lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery cells being supplied by CATL. Now Tesla has a new source of LFP cells thanks to a deal just signed with LG Energy Solutions. According to The Korea Economic Daily, the contr

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South Korea's LG Energy Solution signs $4.3 billion battery supply deal with undisclosed party

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-12-21 09:46:15

The logo of LG Electronics is seen on the opening day of the Integrated Systems Europe exhibition in Barcelona on January 31, 2023. South Korea-based LG Energy Solution announced Wednesday that it had signed a $4.3 billion contract for supplying batteries to a major corporation, without naming the customer. The effective date of contract — receipt of orders — was Tuesday and it will conclude at the end of July, 2030. During this period, the counterparty will not be disclosed to maintain busine

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The Download: how to store energy underground, and what you may not know about Trump’s AI Action Plan

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-12-21 03:10:00

Texas-based startup Quidnet Energy just completed a test showing it can store energy for up to six months by pumping water underground. Using water to store electricity is hardly a new concept—pumped hydropower storage has been around for over a century. But the company hopes its twist on the technology could help bring cheap, long-duration energy storage to new places. Read the full story. —Casey Crownhart What you may have missed about Trump’s AI Action Plan The executive orders and anno

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How the brain increases blood flow on demand

news.ycombinator.com Catherine Caruso 2025-12-21 17:13:32

Work described in this story was made possible in part by federal funding supported by taxpayers. At Harvard Medical School, the future of efforts like this — done in service to humanity — now hangs in the balance due to the government’s decision to terminate large numbers of federally funded grants and contracts across Harvard University. All day long, our brains carry out complicated and energy-intensive tasks such as remembering, solving problems, and making decisions. To supply the energy

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How the Brain Increases Blood Flow on Demand

news.ycombinator.com Catherine Caruso 2025-12-21 23:13:32

Work described in this story was made possible in part by federal funding supported by taxpayers. At Harvard Medical School, the future of efforts like this — done in service to humanity — now hangs in the balance due to the government’s decision to terminate large numbers of federally funded grants and contracts across Harvard University. All day long, our brains carry out complicated and energy-intensive tasks such as remembering, solving problems, and making decisions. To supply the energy

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AI Datacenters Are Raising Nearby Residents' Electric Bills

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-23 10:04:46

If you're looking for someone to blame for your ballooning energy bills, we have an increasingly familiar culprit: AI data centers. A new analysis of one the US's largest power grids, PJM, found that a rise in customer energy rates is directly attributable to the tremendous power demands of these data facilities that undergird services like OpenAI's ChatGPT, the Washington Post reports. Serving 67 million customers, the PJM region covers just over a dozen states, including Indiana, Maryland, M

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Trump promised a drilling boom, but US energy industry hasn’t been interested

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-23 10:26:37

“We will drill, baby, drill,” President Donald Trump declared at his inauguration on January 20. Echoing the slogan that exemplified his energy policies during the campaign, he made his message clear: more oil and gas, lower prices, greater exports. Six months into Trump’s second term, his administration has little to show on that score. Output is ticking up, but slower than it did under the Biden administration. Pump prices for gasoline have bobbed around where they were in inauguration week.

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This startup wants to use the Earth as a massive battery

technologyreview.com Casey Crownhart 2025-12-23 23:00:00

In traditional pumped hydro storage facilities, electric pumps move water uphill, into a natural or manmade body of water. Then, when electricity is needed, that water is released and flows downhill past a turbine, generating electricity. Quidnet’s approach instead pumps water down into impermeable rock formations and keeps it under pressure so it flows up when released. “It’s like pumped hydro, upside down,” says CEO Joe Zhou. Quidnet started a six-month test of its technology in late 2024, pr

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How to make websites that will require lots of your time and energy

news.ycombinator.com Jim Nielsen 2025-12-24 16:41:41

Some lessons I’ve learned from experience. 1. Install Stuff Indiscriminately From npm Become totally dependent on others, that’s why they call them “dependencies” after all! Lean in to it. Once your dependencies break — and they will, time breaks all things — then you can spend lots of time and energy (which was your goal from the beginning) ripping out those dependencies and replacing them with new dependencies that will break later. Why rip them out? Because you can’t fix them. You don’t e

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This aerogel and some sun could make saltwater drinkable

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-26 10:00:52

Earth is about 71 percent water. An overwhelming 97 percent of that water is found in the oceans, leaving us with only 3 percent in the form of freshwater—and much of that is frozen in the form of glaciers. That leaves just 0.3 percent of that freshwater on the surface in lakes, swamps, springs, and our main sources of drinking water, rivers and streams. Despite our planet’s famously blue appearance from space, thirsty aliens would be disappointed. Drinkable water is actually pretty scarce. As

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Computing’s Top 30: Subodha Charles

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-12-28 09:00:49

When launching a company, the decision about whether to go it alone or court investors is pivotal; Subodha Charles has done both and learned the many lessons that each path offers. Going it alone, for example, “teaches discipline like nothing else,” he says, and also underscores the importance of every hire, every decision, every dollar spent. This path’s pay-offs include bolstering creativity, a scrappy mindset, and a “laser focus” on identifying and solving real problems. In partnering with

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Google invests in carbon dioxide battery for renewable energy storage

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-28 10:00:45

Google has announced that it has signed a global commercial partnership with Milan-based startup Energy Dome and has also invested in its long duration energy storage (LDES) tech for renewable energy. The deal, its first investment in LDES tech, entails using Energy Dome's carbon dioxide battery for the grids that power Google’s operations around the world. Batteries are used to keep excess energy generated by renewable sources, such as solar and wind, during peak production and when demand is l

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Startup Claims Its Fusion Reactor Concept Can Turn Cheap Mercury Into Gold

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-30 05:55:11

Keep checking those gold prices—scientists have more news about the coveted metal. An energy startup claims it has the recipe for modern-day alchemy: turning mercury into gold inside a nuclear fusion reactor. Last week, Marathon Fusion, a San Francisco-based energy startup, submitted a preprint detailing an action plan for synthesizing gold particles via nuclear transmutation—essentially the process of turning one element into another by tweaking its nucleus. The paper, which has yet to undergo

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You can't outrun a bad diet

news.ycombinator.com Maria Godoy 2025-12-31 04:42:03

You can't outrun a bad diet. Food — not lack of exercise — fuels obesity, study finds toggle caption PCH-Vector/iStockphoto via Getty Images Back in the 1800s, obesity was almost nonexistent in the United States. Over the last century, it's become common here and in other industrialized nations, though it remains rare among people who live more traditional lifestyles, such as the Hadza hunter-gatherers of Tanzania. So what's changed? One common explanation is that as societies have developed,

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What role should oil and gas companies play in climate tech?

technologyreview.com Casey Crownhart 2026-01-01 00:00:00

Standing on top of a drilling rig in the backyard of Nabors’s headquarters, I couldn’t stop thinking about the role oil and gas companies are playing in the energy transition. This industry has resources and energy expertise—but also a vested interest in fossil fuels. Can it really be part of addressing climate change? The relationship between Quaise and Nabors is one that we see increasingly often in climate tech—a startup partnering up with an established company in a similar field. (Another

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Fusion Startup Says It's Figured Out How to Turn Mercury Into Gold

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-01 17:21:29

A fusion energy startup claims to have found a way to turn mercury into gold. As the Financial Times reports, San Francisco-based Marathon Fusion says that the same process that could one day represent a limitless source of clean energy could also be used for literal alchemy. As detailed in a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper, nuclear transmutation — effectively changing an element or isotope into a different one by ripping out protons from its nucleus — could be used to synthesize gold particles.

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US nuclear weapons agency hacked in Microsoft SharePoint attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-02 14:14:25

Unknown threat actors have breached the National Nuclear Security Administration's network in attacks exploiting a recently patched Microsoft SharePoint zero-day vulnerability chain. NNSA is a semi-autonomous U.S. government agency part of the Energy Department that maintains the country's nuclear weapons stockpile and is also tasked with responding to nuclear and radiological emergencies within the United States and abroad. A Department of Energy spokesperson confirmed in a statement that hac

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This Tiny Gadget Should Be at the Heart of Every Smart, Energy-Saving Home

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-03 09:08:00

We're now firmly in the summer months which means that we're in air conditioning territory. But whether you're keeping your home cool or looking to get toasty in the cooler months, one handy bit of tech could be the secret to keeping you comfortable and controling your energy bills. Getting the temperature just so is so easy in my smart home that I can do it using nothing more than my voice. "Hey Google, show me my thermostat," I say. "Got it," my Nest display responds. It brings up all my Nes

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This startup wants to use beams of energy to drill geothermal wells

technologyreview.com Casey Crownhart 2026-01-06 16:00:00

This rock-melting drilling technology from the geothermal startup Quaise is certainly unconventional. The company hopes it’s the key to unlocking geothermal energy and making it feasible anywhere. Geothermal power tends to work best in those parts of the world that have the right geology and heat close to the surface. Iceland and the western US, for example, are hot spots for this always-available renewable energy source because they have all the necessary ingredients. But by digging deep enoug

Topics: drilling energy geothermal quaise rock

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Africa's gigantic $80B dam could transform entire continent

news.ycombinator.com Rafaela Fabris 2026-01-07 10:17:08

At a cost of $80 billion, the Grand Inga Dam will be the world's largest hydroelectric plant, capable of generating 40.000 megawatts and bringing electricity to millions, the megaproject will change economies and connect all of Africa. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is about to embark on one of the largest and most ambitious infrastructure projects ever seen. The construction of the $80 billion Grand Inga Dam promises to transform not only the country’s energy sector, but also the f

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EcoFlow Introduces New Home Battery to Aid in Disaster Preparedness

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-09 03:00:00

Extreme weather is only becoming more common, and some states are more vulnerable to natural disasters than others. Whether it's a risk of floods, hurricanes, wildfires or blackouts, homeowners in states like California, Texas and Florida are more prone to power outages. A whole-home battery backup can be a good solution to this problem, letting you charge the battery while the power is on and then kick in when the power goes out. EcoFlow is the latest to enter this market with the Ocean Pro, wh

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Electricity Prices are Going Up, and AI Is to Blame

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Unplugging these 7 common household devices helped reduce my electricity bills

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Vast majority of new US power plants generate solar or wind power

Wyoming could become the first state to supply more electricity to AI than to residents

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This startup wants to use beams of energy to drill geothermal wells

Africa's gigantic $80B dam could transform entire continent

EcoFlow Introduces New Home Battery to Aid in Disaster Preparedness

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