Poujol 𝖱𝗈𝗌𝗍 ✅<p>How much electricity will <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> use? <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/DataCentres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataCentres</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/Energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Energy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiopcVoi9qY" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=kiopcVoi9q</span><span class="invisible">Y</span></a></p><p>> AI requires massive amounts of electricity, especially to keep servers cool.Today, a <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/hyperscale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hyperscale</span></a> data centre run by a big tech company already uses as much electricity...</p>
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Can Australia’s energy grid keep up with the demands of AI?
If you asked ChatGPT how much power artificial intelligence uses, it would tell you: “the amount of energy…
#NewsBeep #News #Artificialintelligence #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AU #Australia #datacentres #Environment #rnbreakfast #Technology
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/1224/
9-Jul-2025
Banking on #AI while committed to #netZero is ‘magical thinking’, claims report on energy costs of big tech
By 2040, the #energy demands of the tech industry could be up to 25 times higher than today, with unchecked growth of #dataCentres driven by AI expected to create surges in #electricity consumption that will strain power grids and accelerate #carbonEmissions.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1090445 #science #environment #climateCatastrophe
EurekAlert!Banking on AI while committed to net zero is ‘magical thinking’, claims report on energy costs of big techWith countries such as the UK declaring ambitious goals for both AI leadership and decarbonisation, a new report suggests that AI could drive a 25-fold increase in the global tech sector’s energy use by 2040.
#Trump’s #OneBigBeautifulBill accelerates an American #energycrisis by hindering #wind, #solar, and #batterystorage projects: The bill’s impact on #cleanenergy projects, coupled with the increasing #powerdemands of #datacentres, may hinder the U.S. in the #AIrace against #China. https://fortune.com/2025/07/03/trump-big-beautiful-bill-accelerate-american-energy-crisis-ai-race/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
Fortune · Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill will accelerate an American energy crisis—and it could cost the U.S. the AI race
Wind & solar generation has scaled up remarkably across the United States, but a growing share of this electricity is going to waste. When the grid can’t absorb all the power produced—either due to aging transmission systems or a lack of local load—the surplus is “curtailed”, or essentially wasted
https://www.theenergymix.com/data-centres-tap-into-wasted-renewable-electricity/
The Energy Mix · Data Centres Tap Into Wasted Renewable Electricity
"To the naked eye the pollution is not visible."
Wonder Valley Update #2 takes a look at two op-eds supporting the project, provincial demands to dismantle environmental protections, and Elon Musk's xAI data centre fiasco - more behind-the-scenes information I couldn’t fit in the story for The Energy Mix.
#airpollution #Alberta #DataCentres #methane #climatechange #ableg #AIdatacentres #water #ozone
https://jodymacpherson.substack.com/p/wonder-valley-watch-its-marked-out
The Missive · Wonder Valley Watch: It's marked out just like a large chessboard
The Daily Upside: Low Battery: ‘Heat Dome’ Exposes Cracks in America’s Decaying Power Grid…
This week’s epic #heat dome has swallowed up much of the eastern half of the continental United States and is pushing the #energy grid to the brink as buildings and homeowners everywhere crank up the #airconditioning to stay cool... #climate #ai #datacentres
for much deliberation · The Daily Upside: Low Battery: ‘Heat Dome’ Exposes Cracks in America’s Decaying Power Grid…This week’s epic #heat dome has swallowed up much of the eastern half of the continental United States and is pushing the #energy grid to the brink as buildings and homeowners everywhere crank up t…
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@davidho Air conditioning costs a lot of electricity. You need more renewables, often the grids are not made for such an over-use, especially since the big #dataCentres for AI trigger more #desertification in Spain. Nowadays we cool #AISlop, not people.
Powering #DataCentres using stranded #Renewables is an interesting idea. Perhaps, though, if our grids were more interconnected such energy could be shared further afield?
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/how-a-data-center-company-uses-stranded-renewable-energy/
Ars Technica · How a data center company uses stranded renewable energy
How much energy are you using on AI? | Datawrapper Blog https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/ai-energy-usage
With pointers back to Andy Masley, but also with some new visuals...
Datawrapper · How much energy are you using on AI? | Datawrapper BlogHi, this is Mirko, co-founder of Datawrapper. This week I looked at how much energy …
#Nvidia announced #partnerships with #Europe|an countries and companies to build #datacentres using its graphics processing units for #AI. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/11/nvidia-gtc-paris-2025-ai-giant-makes-big-play-for-europe.html?eicker.news #tech #media #news
CNBCNvidia makes big play for Europe with infrastructure dealsNvidia announced a slew of partnerships with European firms on Wednesday spanning infrastructure to software.
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@phelan Funny the way nobody does a break down of the energy consumption of pharmaceutical factories, or botox production, or any of the other industries that support the modern economy.
What this says is despite decades of luring #Datacentres here, successive governments have critically under-invested in modern energy infrastructure.
"Grid capacity is a limited public resource – priority should be going to housing, not data centres…
#FiannaFáil claims #housing is its top issue but… access to our public infrastructure and our natural resources are prioritised for #datacentres"
#SpéirGorm
www.independent.ie/irish-news/l...
Lynn Boylan: Grid capacity is ...
Irish Independent · Lynn Boylan: Grid capacity is a limited public resource – priority should be going to housing, not data centre
Elon Musk is choking a black community with air pollution to run a racist chatbot on a right-wing social media site. And the next data centre planned to run "Grok" will nearly double the number of fossil fuelled turbines.
Far from 'saving' the climate, it really looks like fossil-fuelled data centres are running climate-denying racist text generators for right-wing billionaires.
I found a new dataset that lays it all out pretty nicely: as bad as the generative AI data centre panic-build is, Musk is the worst of a bad bunch by a good margin.
Enjoy:
Links ->
The dataset: https://epoch.ai/data/ai-supercomputers?view=table#data-insights
Southern Environment Law Centre update: https://www.selc.org/news/resistance-against-elon-musks-xai-facility-in-south-memphis-gets-stronger/
Thermal images of the gas turbines: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/24/elon-musk-xai-memphis
More Perfect Union short documentary on the town Musk is poisoning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VJT2JeDCyw
Musk's chatbot is racist: https://www.reuters.com/business/musks-xai-updates-grok-chatbot-after-white-genocide-comments-2025-05-17/
Once the site is grid connected, it'll raise power prices and increase grid-scale fossil fuel use: https://floodlightnews.org/power-for-data-centers-could-come-at-staggering-cost-to-consumers/ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/business/energy-environment/data-centers-utilities-electricity-bills.html
A nice case study of a *defeated* 3.5 gigawatt data centre fossil fuel power station combo https://www.selc.org/news/a-rural-virginia-county-is-a-case-study-in-community/
Shell Has Launched A Cooling Liquid For Data Centres #cpucoolers #datacentres #dlcfluids3 #liquidcooling #server #shell
https://www.lowyat.net/2025/354951/shell-has-launched-a-cooling-liquid-for-data-centres/
Lowyat.NET · Shell Has Launched A Cooling Liquid For Data CentresPetrol company Shell has a special liquid for cooling servers in data centres, that would probably look quite at home in a gaming PC.
Crikey!!
"The Irish grid is already under the most pressure in the EU from data centres, accounting for 18% of the national electricity consumption."
#DataCentres
#CO2Emissions
Excellent reporting by @conorocarroll.bsky.social for @investigates.thejournal.ie.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xnhbifcilcbhz44ml6q3zmze/post/3lqs6fup52b26
Bluesky SocialConor O'Carroll (@conorocarroll.bsky.social)Investigative journalist @investigates.thejournal.ie 🕵️| Often found sending an FOI 📨 | DM for contact info 📞 | They/them 🏳️⚧️
The investigative team at @TheJournal have, for the first time, mapped each existing and planned data centre in Ireland:
"Where are all the data centres and why should you care?"
investigates.thejournal.ieThe Journal Investigates: Where are all the data centres and why should you care?