Just outside Ireland’s capital, Dublin, a data center has become the first in Europe to turn to an independent, so-called “islanded,” microgrid to keep its servers running. Europe is looking to cash in on the AI boom while tackling power connection delays that have persisted for decades. The European Commission estimates the bloc needs at…
Gregory Beard, director of the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Dominance Financing. Courtesy: U.S. Department of Energy Former Apollo executive and longtime New Yorker Gregory Beard says he wouldn’t have left the private sector for just any job. But opportunity came knocking in the form of Energy Secretary Chris Wright, who tapped Beard to…
Students at a tech university in Dublin are enjoying an unexpected perk of artificial intelligence — it’s helping heat their campus. Since 2023, the Technical University of Dublin’s Tallaght campus has been one of a growing number of buildings in the southwest suburban area of the city to be heated by waste heat from a…
Bloom Energy power storage equipment, San Ramon, California. Smith Collection | Gado | Archive Photos | Getty Images A million bubbles were swirling inside each glass of Champagne poured on New Year’s Eve — which seems about like the number of times artificial intelligence bubbles have been mentioned by tech investors, economists and media pundits…
Electricity prices are surging, voters are growing angry, and the artificial intelligence industry’s data centers are increasingly a target for blame with U.S. mid-term elections on the horizon. Residential utility bills rose 6% on average nationwide in August compared with the same period in the previous year, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The…
Castor containers for high-level radioactive waste. Ina Fassbender | Afp | Getty Images Nuclear power is back, largely due to the skyrocketing demand for electricity, including big tech’s hundreds of artificial intelligence data centers across the country and the reshoring of manufacturing. But it returns with an old and still-unsolved problem: storing all of the…
Electricity companies across the U.S. are struggling to figure out how much demand will actually materialize from the artificial intelligence boom, as the stock market speculates that vast sums of money will be spent on infrastructure to support a big data center buildout. “There is a question about whether or not all of the projections,…
