Energy & Climate news

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Today's stories

Energy & Climate4 min read

Data centre debate heats up ahead of US midterms - here's what you need to know

BBC

This week

Energy & Climate17 min read

The datacentre next door: on the frontline of tech’s latest David v Goliath battle

The Guardian
Energy & Climate3 min read

Wolves Descend on Finnish Villages After Google Hacked Down 1,300 Acres of Habitat to Make Room for AI Data Centers

Futurism
Energy & Climate2 min read

Plans for AI data centre approved by council

BBC

This Startup Wants You To Recharge Your AC With Cheap Carbon Dioxide

Forbes
Energy & Climate12 min read

AI is driving a data-center power boom. These are some of the biggest US projects being built.

Business Insider
Energy & Climate7 min read

Beyond tree cover: mapping the world’s forest types

Google DeepMind
Energy & Climate9 min read

‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre

The Guardian
Energy & Climate3 min read

Pioneers Across Europe Deploy NVIDIA Earth-2 Open Models to Power Real-World Weather and Climate Prediction

Nvidia Blog
Energy & Climate5 min read

Crusoe and Araico Plan AI Cloud Deployment at Itaipú Dam in Paraguay

Unite.AI
Energy & Climate2 min read

Google funds a 1GW virtual power plant with Voltus on the PJM grid

The Next Web
Energy & Climate8 min read

Big Tech’s thirst for water is sparking a global resistance

Rest of World
Energy & Climate1 min read

Gas demand growth forecasts may be revised upward due to data centers

TASS English
Energy & Climate3 min read

Data centers could erase decades of air quality gains

The Verge
Energy & Climate3 min read

Trump suggests a community 'dividend' to defuse data center backlash

Covered by 3 sources
Energy & Climate3 min read

Spring flood water levels in northern rivers to be forecasted using AI

TASS English
Energy & Climate2 min read

Nvidia says European partners are adopting DSX to cut AI factory water use

The Next Web
Energy & Climate6 min read

Latin America’s AI Opportunity Depends on What Happens After the Capital Arrives

Unite.AI
Energy & Climate2 min read

An AI tool improves weather forecasts up to a month ahead

Nature
Energy & Climate6 min read

The Rise Of AI-Ready Microgrids: What's Driving A New Wave Of Behind-The-Meter Innovation

Forbes
Energy & Climate5 min read

Europe Wants Data Centers. Its Climate Goals Are Getting in the Way

Wired

AI’s Compute Hit A Wall. It Requires A Total Systems Redesign

Forbes
Energy & Climate6 min read

Zohran Mamdani Backs Major Expansion of New York’s Data Center Moratorium

Gizmodo
Energy & Climate5 min read

Data Centers Are Burning Fossil Fuels. It’s Destroying Big Tech’s Climate Goals

CNET

"Power is probably the forever bottleneck": Grid delays threaten the AI race.

Axios
Energy & Climate6 min read

Google says it can build data centers the right way. Some experts and residents are skeptical

CNBC
Energy & Climate5 min read

AI Data Center Efficiency: Looking Beyond Power Usage Effectiveness

Forbes
Energy & Climate6 min read

Are We Looking in the Wrong Place to Solve the AI Data Center Sustainability Challenge?

Unite.AI

This month

Energy & Climate4 min read

How has community reacted to major data centre plan?

BBC

Anthropic Signs First Data-Center Deal in Canada With EverWind

Bloomberg

Geothermal finds rare political sweet spot amid AI boom

Axios
Energy & Climate6 min read

The AI Data Center Race Is A Strategic Contest, Not An IT Project

Forbes
Energy & Climate3 min read

Huge data centre and solar farm plans revealed

BBC

Gas Exporter Venture Global Wants to Get In on AI Power Boom

The Wall Street Journal

An AI-for-Climate Startup Won Nvidia’s Backing—After Putting the Climate Part on Ice

The Wall Street Journal
Energy & Climate4 min read

Microsoft has a new machine learning tool to improve weather forecasts

Covered by 2 sources
Energy & Climate2 min read

Nvidia, worth $5.5tn, donates $250m to UK for AI safety research

Covered by 4 sources
Energy & Climate4 min read

Colt DCS, RMZ Start Construction of 64MW AI-Ready Mumbai Data Center

Unite.AI
Energy & Climate4 min read

HiRO-ACEv2: Simulating extreme weather at 3 km resolution for a fraction of the cost

Hugging Face
Energy & Climate7 min read

Researchers improve weather forecasts looking two to six weeks out

MIT AI News
Energy & Climate3 min read

Redwood Materials has a new business: Helping AI data centers avoid America's backed-up electric grid

Business Insider

Siemens Data Center Push Lifts Skeleton’s Value to $1 Billion

Bloomberg
Energy & Climate4 min read

Seventeen Organizations Secure $36 Million From Google.org Challenge

Unite.AI
Energy & Climate3 min read

Google’s Demis Hassabis Puts a Hopeful Spin on AI’s Environmental Impact

CNET

AI's extreme heat challenge is moving from prediction to protection

Axios

China’s Producer Prices Jolted by Oil as Inflation Rebounds

Bloomberg

Power and Talent Biggest AI Bottlenecks, Say Data Center Firms

Covered by 2 sources
Energy & Climate3 min read

US AI data centre startups raise $33.5 billion in 2026 amid power constraints: Morgan Stanley

ET AI (The Economic Times)
Energy & Climate12 min read

They war-gamed dimming the Sun. It went even worse than you think.

Ars Technica
Energy & Climate4 min read

IMF warns global economy ‘could soon test the limits of resilience’

The Guardian

Blackstone’s Gray Bets on Electricity, Defense, Life Sciences

Bloomberg
Energy & Climate2 min read

The AI Data Center Boom Is Causing a Gigantic Spike in Smog-Spewing Gas Power Plants

Futurism

Extreme Weather Is Everywhere Now—How to Prepare Your Home

The Wall Street Journal
Energy & Climate3 min read

Data centre raises noise and wildlife impact fears

BBC
Energy & Climate3 min read

AI applications will force telecom networks to rethink uplink, spectrum and power: Ericsson India MD

ET AI (The Economic Times)
Energy & Climate9 min read

The U.S. Nuclear Plant Fleet Is Leaning Into AI

IEEE Spectrum
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