48 h. ago Meta signs three nuclear power deals to help support its AI data centers

Facebook parent Meta has reached nuclear power deals with three companies as it continues to look for electricity sources for its artificial intelligence data centers

Economics

49 h. ago META reaches deals with nuclear power group to help fuel its AI ambitions

Meta’s deals with Vistra will buy power from three nuclear plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania, creating thousands of jobs, the company says

Economics

66 h. ago Elon Musk's xAI to build $20 billion data center in Mississippi

Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, plans to spend $20 billion on a data center in Southaven, Mississippi

Economics

4 d. ago Good bean guide: Experts rank them by healthiness, and reveal how to harness the plant power packed into every tin

Recent studies have shown that the humble bean can lower the risk of chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease, protect against colon cancer, and even help with weight loss.

Science

4 d. ago Watchdog halts a Japanese nuclear plant's safety review after seismic data found to be fabricated

Japan's nuclear watchdog is scrapping the safety screening for two reactors at the Hamaoka nuclear power plant

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5 d. ago Japan’s ‘most dangerous’ nuclear power plant admits to manipulating earthquake safety data

Regulator halts review to restart Hamaoka power plant after 14 years

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5 d. ago Japan nuclear plant admits to manipulating earthquake safety data

Regulator halts review to restart Hamaoka power plant after 14 years

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8 d. ago ‘Just an unbelievable amount of pollution’: how big a threat is AI to the climate?

Defenders say AI can do good to fight the climate crisis. But spiralling energy and water costs leave experts worriedDuring a golden sunset in Memphis in May, Sharon Wilson pointed a thermal imaging camera at Elon Musk’s flagship datacentre to reveal a planetary threat her eyes could not. Free from pollution controls, the gas-fired turbines that power the world’s biggest AI supercomputer were pumping invisible fumes into the Tennessee sky.“It was jaw-dropping,” said Wilson, a former oil and gas worker from Texas who has documented methane releases for more than a decade and estimates xAI’s Colossus datacentre was spewing more of the planet-heating gas than a large power plant. “Just an unbelievable amount of pollution.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago Ed Miliband 'to spend billions on solar power' in scramble to meet Labour's pledge to cut energy bills

The Energy Secretary is expected to set out proposals next month to allocate up to £13billion over the next four years as part of the Government's warm homes plan.

Economics

1 week ago What next for Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant as Trump discusses plan

Russia has considered joint Russian-U.S. use of the plant, according to the Kommersant newspaper

Politics

1 week ago Bernie Sanders calls for pause in AI development: ‘What are they gonna do when people have no jobs?’

Senator’s warnings come as Trump renews calls to ban states from regulating AI

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2 w. ago ‘We are no longer apologising’: Éanna Hardwicke on Ireland’s cultural confidence and what it’s like to play Roy Keane

Currently on stage in a play that provoked riots, the rising Irish actor is also stepping into Keane’s boots to replay a notorious footballing feud. But, he says, his country feels more empowered than ever beforeÉanna Hardwicke cannot really remember Saipan. Not Saipan the place, a small Pacific Island 200km north-east of Guam. Nor, thankfully, Saipan the film, in which he stars, and which I’m hoping to discuss with him at length this afternoon. No, he means Saipan the incident, Saipan the event, Saipan the crisis that has baffled and incensed Ireland’s population for a quarter of a century.We are sitting in a pleasantly boxy meeting room deep within the lungs of the National Theatre, a space so starkly concrete that the current king of England once described it as a clever way of building a nuclear power plant in the middle of London without anyone objecting. Hardwicke himself sports the quiet, thoughtful presence of a literature student, at times speaking like a particularly artic...

Politics

2 w. ago Cow dung is 'essential' to power MILLIONS of UK homes in new biomethane plants

The GMB union has thrown its weight behind demands for the UK government to back a wave of biomethane plants to keep millions of British homes warm over the coming years

Economics

2 w. ago Zelenskyy to meet European leaders and Trump for Ukraine peace talks amid fresh strikes on Kyiv

Attack on Kyiv injures five, says mayor, amid flurry of weekend diplomacy that will see Ukrainian president meet Trump in FloridaEuropean leaders are to take part in a call with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump on Saturday as part of a growing push for a peace deal that will see the Ukrainian president head to Florida on Sunday.The European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, is to join a call on Saturday, a commission spokesperson told Reuters, ahead of the Ukrainian president’s trip to Florida for a Sunday meeting with Trump that Zelenskyy said would focus on some of the most sensitive parts of the peace talks. Key sticking points include Ukrainian security guarantees and reconstruction, plus territorial discussions regarding the Donbas region and the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Solar power surplus in Spain triggers ‘discount season’ for plants

Power producers pivot to battery storage to save unprofitable solar farms

Politics

2 w. ago Putin to install nuclear power plant on moon by 2036 after 'real life Star Wars'

The Kremlin is planning on installing a nuclear power plant on the moon in 2036 to power its space programme and research with China, as the fight for space dominance continues

Events

2 w. ago Russia wants to build a nuclear power plant on the moon in the next few years

Project aims to supply energy for its lunar space programme

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2 w. ago Warning Chernobyl nuclear plant radiation shield is at risk of collapse

A Russian strike could collapse the internal radiation shelter at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine, the plant's director has warned. 

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2 w. ago World’s biggest nuclear power plant to restart 15 years after Fukushima meltdown despite fears of another disaster

JAPAN will restart the world's largest nuclear power station, nearly 15 years after the Fukushima meltdown. The decision was made despite fierce opposition from locals, many of whom saw the 2011 nuclear disaster first-hand. The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant, about 136 miles northwest of Tokyo, is set to reopen around January 20 next year. Japan closed all...

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2 w. ago Japan clears final hurdle to restart world’s largest nuclear plant

Restart of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa facility comes despite public opposition in Niigata, where many residents say safety concerns from Fukushima have not been resolved

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