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AI Data Centers Use Far More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-07-03 | tags: data centers, power plants, tech giants

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Rolls-Royce Secures Deal To Build Small Nuclear Reactors For Sweden (slashdot.org)

2026-06-19 | get Small Modular Reactor Kit → | tags: rolls-royce, small nuclear reactors, sweden

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AI data centers just got a government-mandated fast lane to the grid (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-18 | by Tim De Chant | get Smart Power Management Strip → | tags: ferc, data centers, grid operators

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Why 2 SpaceX alumni are betting on solar and batteries to power the AI craze (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-10 | by Tim De Chant | tags: ambrosia, plant, power

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Why two SpaceX alumni are betting on solar and batteries to power the AI craze (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-10 | by Tim De Chant | tags: ambrosia, plant, power

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How virtual power plants could provide energy for data centers (technologyreview.com)

2026-06-03 | by Casey Crownhart | get Smart Power Management System → | tags: virtual power plant, voltus, google

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Pacific Fusion’s latest prototype packs 440 gigawatts into an 80-nanosecond burst (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-02 | by Tim De Chant | get High-Speed Power Storage Module → | tags: pacific fusion, pulser module, inertial confinement

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Americans Would Rather Live by a Nuclear Power Plant Than an AI Data Center (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-14 | get AI Data Center Model Kit → | tags: nuclear power plant, ai data center, americans

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The conflation of money and things (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-14 | get Digital Wallet Security Device → | tags: bricks, construction, power plants

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On The Conflation of Money and Things (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-14 | get Digital Wallet Security Kit → | tags: money, construction, bricks

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Musk’s xAI is running nearly 50 gas turbines unchecked at its Mississippi data center (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-13 | by Tim De Chant | get Gas Turbine Model Kit → | tags: considered, plants, power

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A Chevron Texas Power Plant Seeks School District Tax Break (wired.com)

2026-05-11 | by Molly Taft | get Smart Energy Management System → | tags: chevron, microsoft, energy forge

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1.4 GW: battery storage at former Grohnde nuclear power plant (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-30 | by Christof Windeck | get Tesla Powerwall 2 → | tags: grohnde nuclear power plant, emmerthal energy cluster, battery storage systems

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America's Geothermal Breakthrough (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-25 | by Felicity Bradstock | get Geothermal Heat Pump System → | tags: geothermal energy, enhanced geothermal systems, california

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America's Geothermal Breakthrough Could Unlock a 150-Gigawatt Energy Revolution (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-25 | by Felicity Bradstock | get Geothermal Heat Pump System → | tags: geothermal energy, enhanced geothermal systems, california

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Fusion Power Plant Simulator (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-21 | get Fusion Reactor Model Kit → | tags: fusion power, power plant, simulator

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Forty years after Chornobyl, more nuclear disasters are inevitable — plan for them (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-21 | by Bell | get Nuclear Disaster Emergency Kit → | tags: chornobyl, reactor 4, nuclear disaster

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The 'dumb machine' promising a clean energy breakthrough (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-04-20 | get Smart Energy Storage System → | tags: fusion, clean energy, power plant

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Sweden blames Russian hackers for attempting ‘destructive’ cyberattack on thermal plant (techcrunch.com)

2026-04-15 | by Zack Whittaker | get Cybersecurity USB Defense Kit → | tags: russian hackers, thermal power plant, cyberattack

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Trump's emergency orders pushing coal power are "illegal" as well as dumb (arstechnica.com)

2026-04-09 | get Coal Power Plant Model → | tags: trump administration, department of energy, coal power plants

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Trump's emergency orders pushing coal power are illegal as well as dumb (arstechnica.com)

2026-04-09 | get Coal Power Plant Model → | tags: trump department of energy, coal power plants, us electricity grid

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When War Crimes Rhetoric Becomes Battlefield Reality (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-07 | by Margaret Donovan | tags: donald trump, iran power plants, law of war

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Trump’s plan to ‘obliterate’ Iran’s power plants is now on hold, extending deadline for Strait of Hormuz (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-03-23 | get Iran Power Plant Model → | tags: iran, strait of hormuz, donald trump

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Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant reportedly hit by a projectile. Here’s what to know (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-03-18 | get Emergency Nuclear Power Kit → | tags: bushehr, nuclear power plant, iran

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How the grid can ride out winter storms (technologyreview.com)

2026-01-29 | by Casey Crownhart | get Weather Station → | tags: energy, grid, plants

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Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-15 | by Nicola Jones | get Solar panels → | tags: added, panels, plants

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Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and Solar Buildout (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-15 | by Nicola Jones | get Solar Panel → | tags: added, panels, plants