Big tech needs to find more energy-efficient ways to run AI data centers, and direct their major energy investments, along with the government, to clean renewable energy that doesn’t make our ...
AI’s thirst for energy sealed the deal between Microsoft and Constellation on the plant, where memories of a partial meltdown ...
Three Mile Island's Unit 1 is set to reopen in a $1.6 billion deal with Microsoft, signaling a potential nuclear power ...
A few dozen ChatGPT queries cost a bottle’s worth of water. Tech firms should consider simpler solutions, like harvesting ...
Meta had to pull the plug on a nuclear-powered data center project after a rare bee species was discovered on the land where ...
With the grid facing strain and more energy-hungry giants sitting down at the table, ensuring fair contribution isn’t just ...
Anna Erickson of Georgia Tech explains why the public and private sectors are investing in reactor technology and restarting retired plants. The system, though, still faces cost, safety and regulatory ...
Late in September, Microsoft announced that it had struck a deal which will eventually see Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear plant brought back into use. Built in the 1970s and once the site of ...
But it raises an important question: Who should pay for the infrastructure needed to keep these AI ventures afloat ... power ...
Data centers use a lot of computational power, requiring a steady supply of water to cool the systems, which can be solved by ...
The company had planned to build an AI data center near an unspecified ... including other nuclear options. In September, ...