8 h. ago AI data centers may have created as much pollution as New York City and used a world’s supply of bottled water in just one year

Over the past few years, Silicon Valley's AI blitz has created skyrocketing demand for high-end computation in vast dedicated data centers

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13 h. ago Feds pave the way for Big Tech to plug data centers right into power plants in scramble for energy

Federal regulators will allow tech companies to effectively plug massive data centers directly into power plants

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27 h. ago Mystery as flock of UFOs seen hovering above power station for more than a year

The unidentified flying objects have been spotted for more than a year regularly above the Jim Bridger Power Plant in Sweetwater Wyoming.

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68 h. ago Water levels across the Great Lakes are falling – just as US data centers move in

Region struggling with drought now threatened by energy-hungry facilities – but some residents are fighting backThe sign outside Tom Hermes’s farmyard in Perkins Township in Ohio, a short drive south of the shores of Lake Erie, proudly claims that his family have farmed the land here since 1900. Today, he raises 130 head of cattle and grows corn, wheat, grass and soybeans on 1,200 acres of land.For his family, his animals and wider business, water is life. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Health and safety rules holding UK infrastructure back, says writer of government report

Exclusive: John Fingleton says regulators need to change their attitude to risk to end the country’s economic stagnationOverbearing health and safety rules are stopping Britain building new infrastructure, according to the economist whom Keir Starmer has cited as an inspiration for his growth strategy.John Fingleton, who recently wrote a report for government on how to encourage developers to build new nuclear power plants, told the Guardian regulators needed to change their attitude to risk if the country was to end its long economic stagnation. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Japan earthquake live updates: First official megaquake warning issued after 34 hurt by rare 7.5

Nuclear power plants urgently carry out checks and at least 90,000 people evacuated

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1 week ago Japan earthquake live updates: First official megaquake warning issued after 33 hurt by rare 7.5

Nuclear power plants urgently carry out checks and at least 90,000 people evacuated

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1 week ago Japan tsunami live updates: First official megaquake warning issued after 33 hurt by rare 7.5

Nuclear power plants urgently carry out checks and at least 90,000 people evacuated

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1 week ago Japan tsunami live updates: First official megaquake warning issued after 23 hurt by rare 7.5

Nuclear power plants urgently carry out checks and at least 90,000 people evacuated

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1 week ago Japan tsunami live updates: At least 23 people injured after rare 7.5

Nuclear power plants urgently carry out checks after earthquake prompts tsunami warning

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1 week ago Scientists debunk mystery of Chernobyl’s ‘blue dogs’ after claims they had ‘mutated due to radiation’

Images of blue dogs in Chernobyl surfaced in October, sparking a range of theories that have since been debunked

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1 week ago Japan tsunami live updates: Warning issued over 3 metre wave after rare 7.6 magnitude earthquake strikes

Nuclear power plants urgently carried out checks on Monday after an earthquake prompted a tsunami warning

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1 week ago Japan tsunami live updates: Warning issued over 3 metre wave after rare 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes

Nuclear power plants urgently carried out checks on Monday after an earthquake prompted a tsunami warning

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1 week ago More than 200 environmental groups demand halt to new US data centers

Exclusive: Congress urged to act against energy-hungry facilities blamed for increasing bills and worsening climate crisisA coalition of more than 230 environmental groups has demanded a national moratorium on new data centers in the US, the latest salvo in a growing backlash to a booming artificial intelligence industry that has been blamed for escalating electricity bills and worsening the climate crisis.The green groups, including Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Food & Water Watch and dozens of local organizations, have urged members of Congress halt the proliferation of energy-hungry data centers, accusing them of causing planet-heating emissions, sucking up vast amounts of water and for exacerbating electricity bill increases that have hit Americans this year. Continue reading...

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1 week ago More than 200 environmental groups demand halt to new US datacenters

Exclusive: Congress urged to act against energy-hungry facilities blamed for increasing bills and worsening climate crisisA coalition of more than 230 environmental groups has demanded a national moratorium on new datacenters in the US, the latest salvo in a growing backlash to a booming artificial intelligence industry that has been blamed for escalating electricity bills and worsening the climate crisis.The green groups, including Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Food & Water Watch and dozens of local organizations, have urged members of Congress to halt the proliferation of energy-hungry datacenters, accusing them of causing planet-heating emissions, sucking up vast amounts of water and for exacerbating electricity bill increases that have hit Americans this year. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Chernobyl unable to stop radiation leak after Russian drone strike, UN watchdog warns

The strike pierced the power plant’s outer shell but radiation levels have not increased in the area

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1 week ago Disgusting theory solves mystery of bright blue dogs living near Chernobyl

A video of three stray dogs with blue fur hanging around the destroyed Chernobyl power plant went viral, but now scientists have revealed the real reason why — and it's not pretty

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2 w. ago The AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the American west

Once home to gold and prospectors, the Nevada desert is now the site of a new kind of expansion: tech data centers Driving down the interstate through the dry Nevada desert, there are few signs that a vast expanse of new construction is hiding behind the sagebrush-covered hills. But, just beyond a massive power plant and transmission towers that march up into the dusty brown mountains, lies one of the world’s biggest buildouts of data centers – miles of new concrete buildings that house millions of computer servers.This business park, called the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center, has a sprawling landmass greater than the city of Denver. It is home to the largest data center in the US, built by the company Switch, and tech giants like Google and Microsoft have also bought land here and are constructing enormous facilities. A separate Apple data center complex is just down the road. Tesla’s gigafactory, which builds electric vehicle batteries, is a resident too. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago London Watchdog Seeks Tougher Data Center Rules to Help Housing

London Watchdog Seeks Tougher Data Center Rules to Help Housing  Bloomberg.com

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2 w. ago Trump order to keep Michigan power plant open costs taxpayers $113m

Critics say JH Campbell coal-fired plant in western Michigan is expensive and emits high levels of toxic pollutionTrump administration orders to keep an ageing, unneeded Michigan coal-fired power plant online has cost ratepayers from across the US midwest about $113m so far, according to estimates from the plant’s operator and regulators.Still, the US energy department last week ordered the plant to remain open for another 90 days. Continue reading...

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