2025-04-10
An answer to AI’s energy addiction? More AI, says the IEA
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has published its first major report on the AI gold rush’s impact on global energy consumption — and its findings paint a worrying, and perhaps contradictory, picture. Energy use from data centres, including for artificial intelligence applications, is predicted to double over the next five years to 3% of global energy use. AI-specific power consumption could drive over half of this growth globally, the report found. Some data centres today consume as much electricity as 100,000 households. The hyperscalers of [...]
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2025-04-18
How AI is Redrawing the World’s Electricity Maps: Insights from the IEA Report
Artificial intelligence (AI) is not just transforming technology; it's also significantly changing the global energy sector. According to the latest report from the International Energy Agency (I [...]
2025-01-22
Can our climate be saved by vacuuming carbon out of the skies
Imagine: A switch is flicked and, in a heartbeat, every process spewing deadly pollution into the heavens is replaced with something clean and sustainable. Sadly, even then, the Earth would still tip [...]
2025-04-10
Global emissions due to AI-related chipmaking grew more than four times in 2024
A pair of studies analyzing the effects of AI on our planet have been released and the news is fairly grim. Greenpeace studied the emissions generated from the production of the semiconductors used in [...]
2025-07-25
Google invests in carbon dioxide battery for renewable energy storage
Google has announced that it has signed a global commercial partnership with Milan-based startup Energy Dome and has also invested in its long duration energy storage (LDES) tech for renewable energy. [...]
2025-07-02
Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ is a middle finger to US solar energy
The so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill” will, if passed, make sweeping changes to the US’ clean energy market. While some of the worst provisions affecting the industry were stripped out during Sena [...]
2025-05-06
Trump admin announces plans to shut down the Energy Star program
The Trump administration has announced plans to eliminate the Energy Star program, as originally reported by The Washington Post. This announcement occurred during an all-hands meeting of the Environm [...]
2025-06-12
Meta is helping to fund geothermal energy projects in New Mexico
Meta has entered into an agreement with XGS Energy to develop "next-generation geothermal energy" projects in New Mexico. The plan is for these projects to connect directly into the electric [...]
2025-05-16
Ask Engadget: How do I answer calls on my iPhone with only my voice?
Last August, my best friend asked me how she could help her neighbor set her iPhone so she could answer it without picking it up. The neighbor had Multiple Sclerosis (MS), and had lost dexterity in bo [...]