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Artificial intelligence is an electricity hog. Google says its total greenhouse gas emissions climbed nearly 50% over five years, mostly due to electricity that powers AI data centers. Every major ...
Since the Justin Trudeau Liberals — apparently soon to become the Mark Carney Liberals — have been treating Canadians like dummies in their defence of carbon taxes for a decade, today let’s ...
Justine Calma 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 ...
But it has a dark underside: AI computer centers consume enormous amounts of electricity and water, to power their processing chips and cool the heat they emit. Annual U.S. electricity use by data ...
Ontario started a 25% surcharge Monday for the electricity it exports to three U.S. states. Head of the Canadian province Premier Doug Ford has been an outspoken critic of the tariffs President ...
Renewable electricity is cheap and clean, but also less predictable than firing up a gas turbine. Turns out that’s both a problem and an opportunity. Most solutions to the problem of ...
Individuals and small businesses may end up bearing some of the cost of grid upgrades needed for large electricity users, a new report found. By Ivan Penn Individuals and small business have been ...
The facilities’ extraordinary demand for electricity to power and cool computers inside can drive up the price local utilities pay for energy and require significant improvements to electric ...
LITTLETON, Colorado, May 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. power system is on track to produce more electricity from clean power sources than from fossil fuels for the third straight month in May ...