AI data centres already strain the grid just by running. A new paper asks a darker question: what if a tenant tried to break it on purpose? Three researchers at Zhejiang University set out the idea in a preprint called Bit2Watt, accepted to a leading h…
Italian cleantech company Circular Materials, which developstechnology to recover critical and strategic raw materials from industrialwastewater, has secured €11.8 million in Simple Agreement for Futu…
A rare bird turned up in central Brazil, or so it seemed. A photo on the wildlife platform iNaturalist showed a red-winged blackbird. That North American species had never turned up in that part of Brazil. It would have been a notable first. It was not…
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Kevin O’Leary is making the golf course argument again. The “Shark Tank” investor, whose 40,000-acre Stratos data centre project in Utah sparked protests and a governor’s executive order, told Business Insider that AI data centres consume far less wate…
The Pentagon has frozen the permitting process for at least 155 new wind projects in 24 states for nearly a year, citing concerns that drones can hide among wind turbines and evade radar detection. The affected projects have a combined capacity of 44 g…