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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. For three years in a row, California has added a record amount of new clean energy capacity. The amount of renewable energy and storage (i.e. batteries) added since 2020 is roughly equivalent to how much electricity the state has used on average on a daily basis — around 25,00
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Microsoft’s new sustainability report, released late last week, shows how a carbon-heavy economy can weigh on a company that wants to be carbon light. Since 2020, its carbon emissions are up 23.4%, mostly a result of breakneck data center buildout to support its growing cloud and AI operations. Buying enough clean electricity is actually the easy part — it’s the facilities themselves that are laden with carbon-intensive materials and products, including steel, concrete, and computer chips. “We
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust A hot potato: The global AI industry is quietly crossing an energy threshold that could reshape power grids and climate commitments. New findings reveal that the electricity required to run advanced AI systems may surpass Bitcoin mining's notorious energy appetite by late 2025, with implications that extend far beyond tech boardrooms. The rapid expansion of generative AI has triggered a boom in dat
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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. AI could soon surpass Bitcoin mining in energy consumption, according to a new analysis that concludes artificial intelligence could use close to half of all the electricity consumed by data centers globally by the end of 2025. The estimates come from Alex de Vries-Gao, a PhD
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Forward-looking: Portuguese scientists are exploring how the power of the ocean can be harnessed not only to generate clean electricity but also to protect vulnerable shorelines. Researchers from CIIMAR and FEUP have published a study in the journal Applied Energy, proposing a dual-purpose wave energy park near Esposende in northwest Portugal. Their vision goes beyond generating renewable energy – it integrates coastal protection directly into the design of the energy infrastructure. At the hea
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AI’s energy use already represents as much as 20 percent of global data-center power demand, research published Thursday in the journal Joule shows. That demand from AI, the research states, could double by the end of this year, comprising nearly half of all total data-center electricity consumption worldwide, excluding the electricity used for bitcoin mining. The new research is published in a commentary by Alex de Vries-Gao, the founder of Digiconomist, a research company that evaluates the e
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Part Three: Fuel and emissions Now that we have an estimate of the total energy required to run an AI model to produce text, images, and videos, we can work out what that means in terms of emissions that cause climate change. First, a data center humming away isn’t necessarily a bad thing. If all data centers were hooked up to solar panels and ran only when the sun was shining, the world would be talking a lot less about AI’s energy consumption. That’s not the case. Most electrical grids aroun
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Innovation in IT got us to this point. Graphics processing units (GPUs) that power the computing behind AI have fallen in cost by 99% since 2006. There was similar concern about the energy use of data centers in the early 2010s, with wild projections of growth in electricity demand. But gains in computing power and energy efficiency not only proved these projections wrong but enabled a 550% increase in global computing capability from 2010 to 2018 with only minimal increases in energy use. In t
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Part Three: Fuel and emissions Now that we have an estimate of the total energy required to run an AI model to produce text, images, and videos, we can work out what that means in terms of emissions that cause climate change. First, a data center humming away isn’t necessarily a bad thing. If all data centers were hooked up to solar panels and ran only when the sun was shining, the world would be talking a lot less about AI’s energy consumption. That’s not the case. Most electrical grids aroun
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What just happened? Kuwait has declared cryptocurrency mining "illegal and unlicensed" as part of a broad crackdown to ease pressure on its strained power grid amid a worsening energy crisis. This firm stance contrasts sharply with neighboring Dubai, which continues to embrace the crypto sector, recently hosting a major international conference attended by prominent industry figures. Kuwait has launched a sweeping crackdown on cryptocurrency mining, blaming the activity for worsening a power cr
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The causes of the power outage that left millions in Spain and Portugal without electricity on Monday have yet to be fully determined, though service has now been restored across 99 percent of the Iberian peninsula. Red Eléctrica, the public company in charge of operating Spain’s transmission infrastructure, has preliminarily ruled out a cyberattack, human error, or unusual weather or atmospheric conditions as a cause of the outage. The company points out that the incident could have originated
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Editor's take: The cryptocurrency market as a whole is far from obsolete; however, it has become more expensive. The era of easy profits from Bitcoin mining appears to have ended, replaced by a fiercely competitive industry where only the most efficient and resourceful players are likely to survive. Bitcoin mining, once viewed as a digital gold rush, is facing a harsh new reality in 2025: for many, the cost of producing a single Bitcoin now outweighs its market value by a considerable margin. T
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Power went down Monday afternoon in vast areas of Spain, crossing over into Portugal and France causing widespread outages in homes and businesses and bringing transportation infrastructure to a halt. The cause of the outage is currently unknown. Lisbon, Madrid, Seville, Barcelona, and Valencia are reportedly affected. The outage began at around 12:30PM CET. Play has been suspended at the Madrid Open tennis tournament, according to Sky News. Madrid’s underground rail system has reportedly been
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This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The tricky thing about generating electricity is that for the most part, you pretty much have to use it or lose it. This fundamental fact has governed and constrained the development of the world’s largest machine: the $2 trillion US power grid. Massive generators send electrons along a continent-wide network of conductors, transformers, cables, and wires into millions of homes and businesses, delicately balan
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Washington DC, April 4th – The US hit a new record low for fossil fuels in the electricity mix last month as solar and wind reached a record high, according to new data from global energy think tank Ember. In March 2025, fossil fuels accounted for less than 50% (49.2%) of electricity generated, for the first month on record. This surpasses the previous monthly record low of 51% set in April 2024. The shift meant that clean sources generated more than half (50.8%) of US electricity for the first
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A new report from the International Energy Agency digs into the details of energy and AI, and I think it’s worth looking at some of the data to help clear things up. Here are four charts from the report that sum up the crucial points about AI and energy demand. 1. AI is power hungry, and the world will need to ramp up electricity supply to meet demand. This point is the most obvious, but it bears repeating: AI is exploding, and it’s going to lead to higher energy demand from data centers. “AI
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Data center growth spurred largely by generative AI is expected to cause global energy demand to surge in the coming years and a report this week from the International Energy Agency provides new estimates on just how much. The amount of electricity needed for data centers worldwide is projected to more than double to roughly 945 terawatt-hours in 2030, which is more than what the entire country of Japan consumes today, according to the report. The popularity of gen AI tools like OpenAI's Chat
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The US may soon consume more electricity on AI than on the manufacture of all energy-intensive goods combined. A pair of studies analyzing the effects of AI on our planet have been released and the news is fairly grim. Greenpeace studied the emissions generated from the production of the semiconductors used in AI chips and found that there was a fourfold increase in 2024. This analysis was completed using publicly available data. Greenpeace Many of the big chipmakers like NVIDIA rely on compa
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Clean power provided 40% of the world's electricity last year for the first time since the 1940s, new figures show. Clean energy comes from nuclear and renewable sources like wind and solar. The milestone has been reached thanks to the "staggering" rise of solar, which has doubled in just three years, energy thinktank Ember said in its new report. And solar was the fastest-growing electricity source for the 20th year in a row. It now provides 7% of the world's electricity. But it remains ec
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President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order on Tuesday aimed at boosting coal’s flagging fortunes, reports Bloomberg. The order will direct the federal government to list coal as a critical mineral and force some coal-fired power plants that had faced closure to keep generating electricity. The Trump Administration is expected to couch the directive as part of an effort to ramp up electricity production as demand from data centers surges. While the executive order might forestall
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Learn electricity and electronics fundamentals and up-to-date applications―all without taking a formal course This fully updated guide offers practical, easy-to-follow instruction on electricity and electronics. Written by a pair of experienced instructors, Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics, Seventh Edition features plain language explanations and step-by-step lessons that make it easy to understand the material quickly. Throughout, detailed illustrations and practical examples reinfor
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In brief: A team of physicists believe it may be possible to harvest electricity using Earth's rotation through its own magnetic field, and they've published a paper involving a test that appears to validate the concept. The study, published in the journal Physical Review Research, builds on work the team conducted back in 2016 and an idea dating back to at least 1832. Using a cylindrical shell made of manganese-zinc ferrite measuring 29.9 cm in length and positioned at a specific angle (57.5 d
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Bitcoin in the bush - the crypto mine in remote Zambia 13 hours ago Share Save Joe Tidy Cyber correspondent, BBC World Service Reporting from Zambia Share Save BBC Engineers from Gridless create makeshift computer labs to maintain their bitcoin mines The roar of the Zambezi is deafening as millions of gallons of water crash over rocks and tumble down rapids. But there's another sound cutting through the trees of the Zambian bush - the unmistakable high-pitched whine of a bitcoin mine. "It's t
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To the people of Mbiabet Esieyere and Mbiabet Udouba in Nigeria’s deep south, sundown would mean children doing their homework by the glow of kerosene lamps, and the faint thrum of generators emanating from homes that could afford to run them. Like many rural communities, these two villages of fishermen and farmers in the community of Mbiabet, tucked away in clearings within a dense palm forest, had never been connected to the country’s national electricity grid. Most of the residents had never
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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. In a first for the US, wind and solar produced more electricity than coal last year, according to a new report from energy think tank Ember. Coal fell to a historic low, generating 15 percent of the country’s electricity compared to 17 percent from solar and wind combined. Th
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The latest milestone means that Boston Metal just got one step closer to commercializing its technology. The company’s process uses electricity to make steel, and depending on the source of that electricity, it could mean cleaning up production of one of the most polluting materials on the planet. The world produces about 2 billion metric tons of steel each year, emitting over 3 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide in the process. While there are still a lot of milestones left before reaching
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—Brian Deese is an innovation fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and served as director of the White House National Economic Council from 2021 to 2023. Rob Gramlich is founder and president of Grid Strategies and was economic advisor to the chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission during the George W. Bush administration. US electricity consumption is rising faster than it has in decades. Accommodating that growth will require building wind turbines, solar farms, an
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So why are we not seeing an explosion in ATT investment and deployment in the US? Because despite their potential to unlock 21st-century technology, the 20th-century structure of the nation’s electricity markets discourages adoption of these solutions. For one thing, under the current regulatory system, utilities generally make money by passing the cost of big new developments along to customers (earning a fixed annual return on their investment). That comes in the form of higher electricity ra
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust Forward-looking: Researchers have developed a battery that converts nuclear energy into electricity using light emission. Led by a team from Ohio State University, the technology could revolutionize how we harness and repurpose nuclear waste. A study published in Optical Materials: X outlines how ambient gamma radiation can be harvested to generate electricity for microelectronics. The prototype ba
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In a nutshell: Most commercial buildings with climate control needs utilize chillers during the warm months. These large systems cool down water and pump it throughout a building to regulate temperatures. This works well enough when electricity costs are low but when they spike during peak usage hours, operators end up paying a lot more out of pocket. Now, building managers across the country have turned to ice to help cut electricity cost. When electricity costs are low, vats of water are froz
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