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Environmental News Network - Using AI to Mitigate the Growing Environmental Threat of Data Centers

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15h ago the environmental part is something common to new construction, funds buildouts of power grid improvements, and will get better as the technology further develops also getting stupider is a skill … +1.5
16h ago Does anyone remember when Australia was just excited about hosting the Olympics? Now it's a race for data centers. But as we roll out the red carpet for tech giants, are we ready for the environmen… ×3 -2.5
1d ago Data Centers Are Breaking The Power Grid. #DataCenter It is an endorsement of environmental destruction. youtu.be/X71le3av1So?... ×3 -4.0
1h ago Mastercard rolls out offline payments across Europe: Cashless payments are becoming increasingly popular among consumers. But in the event of a power outage, or if the payment terminal cannot conne… +1.5
1d ago power: Western US Power Grid. A network representing the Western States Power Grid of the United States, in which nodes are transforms or power relay points and two nodes are connected if a power … +1.5
1d ago Power outage in Kyiv after explosion The network is reporting that the drone debris may have fallen onto a power line. - REPORTS -5.0
1d ago Hey, there's a new videogame for power systems engineers! It is called Power Network Tycoon and it is a bit like a Simcity but focused on building and operating a power grid. The game has some dept… +4.0
10h ago JFC. No, EVs are NOT the future. They are unsustainable and building one EV has a greater geological impact than any car using an ICE. They also add more strain to the electrical grid which also ha… -6.0
15h ago Data centres should generate 20 percent of their power draw back into the electrical grid using green energy, employ folks only from within the state and pay there fair share of taxes so folks don'… ×2 +3.0
1d ago Thread: Each week I run a simulation of Australia’s main electricity grid using rescaled generation data to show that it can get very close to 100% renewable electricity with 24GW/120GWh of storage… ×2 +6.5
4h ago IMF Chief Warns of Energy Shock, Record Debt and AI Risks Facing Global Growth International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva has warned that the global economy is facing a tri… ×2 -3.0
1d ago That means repairing roads and bridges, upgrading water and sewer systems, strengthening our power grid, and investing in projects that keep our communities safe and growing. +5.0
1d ago Trump blocks foreign grid parts President Trump declared a national emergency to protect the U.S. electric grid, banning the purchase and installation of certain foreign-made components and citing… -1.0
6h ago Columbia Planning and Zoning discusses electric grid needs as it considers data center rules https://ift.tt/AQ619b7 +1.0
8h ago [cont.] that can have significant implications for our electricity grid, water, land, air quality and surrounding communities. Hamilton has already been at the centre of debate over whether new AI … -3.0
10h ago Defining these "data centers" as central components of our national security, military and intel agencies, and also defining & regulating them as "utilities" central to our national power grid. ×2 +1.5
12h ago Columbia Planning and Zoning to discuss electric grid needs as it considers data center rules https://ift.tt/2yCUT0e +2.0
12h ago How will data centers affect the electric grid? Join WEI for Data Centers and the Grid, a Forward in Energy Forum on energy demand, reliability, affordability, and future grid planning. Oct. 27, … ×2 +3.0
15h ago Data centres should generate 20 percent of there draw back into the electrical grid, employ folks only from within the state and pay there fair share of taxes so folks don't have to subsidize these… +3.0
20h ago Texas couldn't be bothered to upgrade the electric grid during winter storms, but they're just now upgrading the electric grid for these data centers. ×2 -4.0
1d ago Also don't need data centers to use resources we need. Don't need the noise pollution they cause. The water pollution they cause. The electric grid drain they cause. They're all part of the same pr… ×2 -7.0
1d ago Danish Parliament adopts "emergency plan" for electricity grid, puts data centers at the back of queue ×2 +3.0
1d ago Following a cyberattack on Yandex’s data center in Sasovo, Russia, the company experienced a major "power outage" was reported, rendering a wide range of Yandex Cloud infrastructure unavailable.The… -4.0
1d ago “After the SOU attack on the Yandex data center in Sasovo, there is a large-scale failure in the company A "power outage" was recorded, which made a wide range of Yandex Cloud infrastructure inacc… -3.0
1d ago Concurrently, an ongoing push in robotics and automation will reduce Super-Intelligence's dependence on human labor. I daresay the current hysterical rush to build data centers and "ugrade" the el… ×2 -3.5
1d ago I think the weirdest thing my kiln did was display incorrect post-firing numbers/data after a power outage. Unplugging it and letting it sit for a few seconds fixed it. My kiln has a KilnMaster co… -4.0
1d ago Theft? Amid data center boom, consumers shoulder costs of upgrading the electrical grid share.google/GThLpCaTEia3... -5.5
1d ago Yes, the draft permitting bill contains nice language about making data centers pay their own power grid costs, but the fine print leaves most of the details up to state governments and utilities -… ×2 -3.0
1d ago Data Center Demand Stalls Power Grid Expansion #PJM #EnergyGrid #DataCenters #PowerGeneration #FERC #ElectricityDemand -3.0
1d ago "If we keep trying to cram more GPUs into data centers, we are going to melt the power grid." — from "Quantum Meets AI: The Next Computing Bottleneck Is Already Here" ×2 -4.0

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