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The Department of Energy has closed a loan allowing NextEra to restart Duane Arnold's 615 megawatts, which Google has already reserved for its data centers.
Ten wind projects connected to the ERCOT grid are to provide the equivalent of 1.8 million tonnes of CO₂ avoided per year, on the way to a target set for 2035.
The former vice-president relativizes the carbon footprint of data centers and shifts the concern to what the managers of the laboratories themselves say about their models.
The AI Energy Management Alliance wants to make computing centres a manageable load, and exchange this flexibility for faster network connections.
The largest proposed data center in Australia will consume the equivalent of 1.5 million homes, relying on existing gas-fired power plants rather than new lines.
The consultancy has mapped all local moratoriums on data centres in the US. It concludes that the number of such moratoriums says very little about the capacity actually blocked.
A peer-reviewed study shifts the debate: what the big cloud providers sell to the fossil fuel industry weighs much more than the electricity for their servers.
Google and NASA JPL combine hyperspectral imaging and deep learning to locate methane emissions and make their data accessible.
Google has announced a resolution of up to five kilometres for certain variables and hourly forecasts, intended in particular for the agriculture and energy sectors.
Beyond 25 MW, new centres will have to provide clean electricity or contribute to a user protection fund.
The expansion of computing infrastructure is intensifying tensions over land, water and electricity.
The verifications compiled by a former official of the National Hurricane Center place Google's DeepMind system ahead of all other public track forecasts, in the Atlantic as well as in the Pacific.
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe estimates the time lag: two to five years to build a data center, more than ten years to extend the transmission lines that will supply it.
Under pressure from AI data centers, American electricity distributors are multiplying agreements with nuclear fusion start-ups.
The electricity will come from Cape Station, operated by Fervo Energy, which went public in May 2026. Google reserves the right to increase its withdrawal to nearly one gigawatt by June 2030.
The Georgia Public Utilities Commission has approved the contract between Georgia Power and OpenAI. The utility will develop 3.2 gigawatts of generation, for which OpenAI has committed to fully finance the infrastructure.
While meteorologists were tracking the typhoon's path toward China, a new generation of AI models was spinning alongside conventional systems — not yet able to predict the intensity of storms.
Brookings lists the wave of local blockades targeting data centers, and warns that suspending projects does not replace the control tools that local authorities still lack.
A study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas is modeling the U.S. network's response to the growth of AI data centers and quantifying what will impact bills.
By cross-referencing twenty years of satellite observations with propagation simulations, the tool goes beyond the wind warning of classic red flags.