There’s a valley in rural southwest Utah that’s become a hub for renewable energy. Dozens of tall white wind turbines whoosh up in the sky. A sea of solar panels glistens in the distance. But the new kid on the block is mostly hidden underground. From the surface, Fervo Energy’s Cape Station looks more or less like an...
Google said Monday that it will purchase power from small modular reactor developer Kairos Power, as tech companies increasingly turn to nuclear power as a way to fulfill the growing energy demands from data centers. The tech giant said it will purchase power from a fleet of SMRs made by Kairos Power. Google said purchasing from multiple SMRs...
Higher yield potential is driving adoption of digital farming, with two thirds of the famers using digital tools already and the same amount wanting to learn more about AI, according to Future Farming. This is one of the key findings from the 2024 Farmer Voice survey, a study among 2,000 farmers across Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, India, Kenya, Ukraine,...
Google announced a deal on Monday to purchase energy from small nuclear reactors that the startup Kairos Power plans to start bringing online in the U.S. by 2030. Why it matters: It’s Google’s first nuclear foray as the tech giant — and its peers — hunt for zero-carbon power to fuel energy-thirsty AI data centers. Read...
Ethan Howland of UtilityDive reports on a proposed transmission project across PJM, the nation’s largest Regional Transmission Organization. American Electric Power, Dominion Energy Virginia and FirstEnergy are proposing several multi-state transmission projects in the PJM Interconnection they designed through an ‘innovative joint planning agreement,’ the companies said Monday. ‘By leveraging the expertise and resources of...
Hal Bernton of Inside Climate News reports on Alaska’s potential for underground hydrogen. Alaska geologist Mark Myers hopes that underground reserves of hydrogen could fuel a new state energy industry. His dreams were launched by a well drilled in the African country of Mali that yields enough hydrogen to fuel a village electric power plant. ...
Joe Burns of Utility Dive writes on ARPA-E funding for data center cooling. Advanced Cooling Technologies will receive $1.1 million through two subcontracts with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy. The funding is part of ARPA-E’s Cooling Operations Optimized for Leaps in Energy, Reliability and Carbon Hyperefficiency for Information Processing Systems program,...
Jordyn Grzelewski of Tech Brew reports on GM’s use of AI to boost performance in its automobiles. Every second counts on the racetrack. That’s one reason General Motors is integrating artificial intelligence into just about every aspect of its motorsports division. Tech Brew recently got a peek behind the scenes of where the machine learning...
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