Generative AI requires massive amounts of power and water, and the aging US grid can't handle the load
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Citing climate change, a federal court in Brazil halts rainforest highway paving
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Firefighters in Canada battle to save Jasper's buildings, infrastructure as wildfire engulfs town
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Ireland’s datacentres overtake electricity use of all urban homes combined
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California grid meets and surpasses demand during the day in heat wave due to renewables, batteries
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AI boom risk: Can the world's power grid handle the technology's meteoric rise?
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Google’s greenhouse gas emissions jump 48% in five years
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Spain has more green power than it can use
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Danish researchers are exploring multiple uses for wind farms far out at sea, such as producing fresh seafood
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AI is exhausting the power grid. Tech firms are seeking a miracle solution.
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Sweden's nuclear power goal is challenging but attainable – government wants 2.5 gigawatts of new capacity online by 2035
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How a simple fix could double the size of the US electricity grid
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LA County captures ninety-six billion gallons of water during ‘super year’ of storms
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Google will send the waste heat from its data center in Hamina, Finland, to that community's district heating system
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Cryptocurrency mining as a novel virtual energy storage system in islanded and grid-connected microgrids
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New rules to overhaul US electric grids could boost wind and solar power
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Carbon dioxide pipelines and underground injection can cut greenhouse gas, but community opposition is fierce
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America’s wind power production drops for the first time in twenty-five years
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Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem.
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USA, 101 Freeway: Major Los Angeles highway to undergo weeks of closures for wildlife crossing construction
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Networked geothermal is catching on in Minnesota
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US aiming to ‘crack the code’ on deploying geothermal energy at scale
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The fish doorbell
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Joe Biden administration announces $1.5 billion loan for first reopening of a shuttered US nuclear plant
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Germany’s solar panel industry, once a leader, is getting squeezed
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100,000 years and counting – how do we tell future generations about highly radioactive nuclear waste repositories?
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Industrial-scale thermal storage unit in Pornainen, southern Finland, will be the world's biggest sand battery when it comes online within a couple of years
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A state of emergency has been declared in southern Iceland after another volcanic eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula – the fourth since December
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Taps run dry in water crisis in Bangalore India. Citizens and large Information Technology companies struggle to cope.
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Green corridors - How a Colombian city cooled dramatically in just three years
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Canada to expedite approval of new nuclear projects, energy minister says
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Chile puts brakes on Google data center over water use, environmental concerns
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Denmark's second-largest city is trialling a first-of-its-kind deposit scheme to tackle single-use coffee cups
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UCLA and Equatic to build world’s largest ocean-based plant for carbon removal
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One of the world’s biggest cities may be just months away from running out of water
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Why isn’t solar scaling in Africa?
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The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe will construct one of the largest solar farms in the US and cost over $1 billion
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Power companies are scrambling to satisfy the needs of data centers and new factories in the US
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State of emergency has been declared in Iceland after lava from a volcanic eruption damaged key hot water pipes
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Over two percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin
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The $2.6 billion experiment to cover up Europe's dirty habit – Norwegian project to bury carbon waste under the sea is getting backing from Germany
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Insect populations flourish in the restored habitats of solar energy facilities
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UK and Denmark launch Viking Link underwater cable project – potential to transport enough electricity to power up to 2.5 million UK homes
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The neglected clean heat we flush down the drains
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As Houthi missiles block the Suez, drought depletes the Panama Canal
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Silent Spring (Rachel Carson, 1962)
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Swedish snow chaos leaves 1,000 vehicles trapped in Skåne – travel chaos occurred amid plummeting winter temperatures across the Nordic countries
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Solar surging 58% in 2023, 413 GW of installations expected globally
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All I want for Christmas is one terawatt of solar deployed annually
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Ethiopia's Nile dam [continues to] anger Egypt
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