The unglamorous truth about the AI boom is that some of its hardest problems are plumbing. As data centres pack more GPUs into every rack and run them hotter, the fluid that keeps the chips from cooking has started, occasionally, to grow bacteria. That…
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Meeting data center electricity demand with fossil fuels will add $30 billion to annual electricity costs. Clean energy will cost $5 billion less.
The data center boom is driving huge energy and water use, yet its impact is poorly tracked in sustainability reporting, creating a gap that frameworks must address.
In the desert outside Zhongwei, in the northwestern region of Ningxia, four dedicated power lines now run from a field of solar panels to a cluster of computers. They do not pass through the public grid. That detail, dull as it sounds, is the whole poi…
Wayout International, the Swedish developer of Distributed Drinking Water Infrastructure, today announced the successful closing of a €2.42 million (SEK 26.6 million) Series A extension. The round was…
Congress is moving to stop households paying for Big Tech’s AI power bills. A House panel votes this week on a package of measures. The aim is to put AI data centre energy costs back on the companies that create them. As AI drives up electricity bills,…
Universities have been praised for their progress on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a new analysis.
As AI and electrification drive demand for reliable clean power, long-duration energy storage is emerging as the next industrial race.