Electricity

Don’t blame AI for rise in carbon emissions, says Google exec

Datacenter pollution is rising... but LLM workload not as big as you think

On-Prem18 Jul 2024 | 16

Biden throws $1.7B at automakers to prepare fading factories for EV production

Ice ICE, baby

Personal Tech11 Jul 2024 | 28

Elexon's Insight into UK electricity felled by expired certificate

Certificate Watch Understanding the power needs of the UK begins with knowing when renewals are due

Security09 Jul 2024 | 11

Utility firms go nuclear over Amazon datacenter power deal

AEP and Exelon challenge electricity arrangement between power plant and colo DC

On-Prem03 Jul 2024 | 2

American interest in electric vehicles short circuits for first time in four years

Funny what happens if you take Tesla out of the numbers, though

Personal Tech28 Jun 2024 | 152

AI's appetite for power could double datacenter electricity bills by 2030

Believe it or not, this is modest relative to other predictions

On-Prem26 Jun 2024 | 13

Google datacenters in Nevada to go full steam ahead with geothermal energy

Part of Mountain View's aim for carbon-free power by 2030

On-Prem13 Jun 2024 | 6

Legendary Glastonbury farm using bovine excreta power plant adds graphene boffinry

This is not BS, it's cutting-edge material science

Science11 Jun 2024 | 35

OpenAI to buy electricity from CEO Sam Altman's nuclear fusion side hustle

Knowing your supplier is always good – and super lab's auditors promise to check for conflicts of interest

AI + ML06 Jun 2024 | 53

Sodium ion batteries: Yet another innovation poised to be dominated by China

Interview Coming SiB boom will be a Chinese one while the West is years behind, industry watcher tells us

On-Prem06 Jun 2024 | 48

High-flying drones on a leash could blow traditional wind turbines away

Bristol researcher granted £375K to improve airborne wind energy systems

Science05 Jun 2024 | 40

Graveyards a favorite haunt for solar farms in Valencia

Because the dead don't really need all this space to themselves, surely?

Offbeat04 Jun 2024 | 11

Energy buffs give small modular reactors a gigantic reality check

Too expensive, slow, and risky for investors, and they're taking focus off renewables, say IEEFA experts

Science03 Jun 2024 | 122

Surging datacenter power demand slows the demise of US coal plants

Ongoing fossil fuel use means maybe it's time to revise that idea that AI will kill us with robots

On-Prem31 May 2024 | 7

Ohio power plants want special tariffs on datacenters to protect regional grid

Server operators may need to pay up front, even for electricity they don't need yet

Off-Prem21 May 2024 | 15

Datacenters looking to renewables, nuclear, and gas, in quest for more power

Updated Bit barns might end up adding to the grid's capacity

On-Prem16 May 2024 | 1

Destroying offshore wind farms is top priority for Trump if he returns to presidency

It’s definitely to protect the whales and not the fossil fuel industry

Bootnotes14 May 2024 | 283

Asia's hyperscalers hustle for juice as datacenters drain grid

Power shortages are driving the industry to once-unthinkable places

On-Prem09 May 2024 | 3

FYI... Renewable energy sources behind 30% of the world's electricity in 2023

It ain't all sunshine and windmills – and guess who's in the lead? China

Science08 May 2024 | 97

Digital Realty wants to turn Irish datacenters into grid-stabilizing power jugglers

Electricity goes both ways as bit barns in Dublin aim to cut emissions and boost the bank

On-Prem23 Apr 2024 | 18

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman invests in solar power firm Exowatt to fuel AI datacenters

$20m to keep the industry from having to rely on fossil fuels

On-Prem22 Apr 2024 | 4

AI energy draw from Chicago datacenters to rise ninefold

No wonder industry is exploring nuclear as an alternative to electricity

On-Prem19 Apr 2024 | 18

Some smart meters won't be smart at all once 2/3G networks mothballed

UK reckoning with prospect of millions of homes with obsolete hardware

Networks19 Apr 2024 | 282

Irish power crunch could be prompting AWS to ration compute resources

Exclusive Users report being pointed to other EU regions if they need more grunt

On-Prem09 Apr 2024 | 114

UK awards £1.73M to AI projects to advance net zero goals

Great! Just ignore the energy needed to train them, process queries, keep the lights on in datacenters ...

AI + ML20 Mar 2024 | 35

Europe's deepest mine to become Europe's deepest battery

2 MWh of energy storage using dirt, winches, and cables set to be installed in Finland

Science08 Feb 2024 | 89

US starts 'emergency' checks on cryptocurrency power use, citing winter power demands

Up until now watchdogs say they've just been guesstimating consumption

Public Sector02 Feb 2024 | 81

Affordable, self-healing power grids are closer than you think

Feature They're just an algorithm away, national lab engineer tells El Reg

Public Sector01 Feb 2024 | 114

US cities are going to struggle to green up their act by 2050

Instead of 100% renewables, most will reach around a tenth of that

Public Sector19 Jan 2024 | 53

White House hopes to power up American battery factories with $3.5B fund

Now that's the kind of current affairs we're into

Public Sector16 Nov 2023 | 18

Ireland to develop datacenter powered by fuel cells

Green move comes against backdrop of 82 energy-sucking bit barns with growing power draw needs

On-Prem07 Nov 2023 | 17

Vanishing power feeds, UPS batteries, failover fails... Cloudflare explains that two-day outage

A little peek behind the control panel, analytics curtain

On-Prem07 Nov 2023 | 27

Tenfold electric vehicles on 2030 roads could be a shock to the system

Robust policies for renewables needed to increase energy mix to nearly 50%

Offbeat27 Oct 2023 | 345

Millions of smart meters will brick it when 2G and 3G turns off

Public Accounts Committee demands timetable for replacements, because things have run so smoothly so far...

Public Sector23 Oct 2023 | 354

Want a clean energy transition? Better start putting cash into electrical grid

Spending needs to double to $600B by 2030 if we want to stay within 2°C warming

Science18 Oct 2023 | 91

Japan cruises ahead with drive-thru EV charging trial

Perfect antidote to range anxiety ... if it works and they can sort compatibility

Personal Tech17 Oct 2023 | 32

Gas supplier blames 'rogue' code for Channel Island outage

CEO claims bug had millions-to-one chance of disrupting supply – but it did

Software13 Oct 2023 | 67

AI processing could consume 'as much electricity as Ireland'

Boffins estimate power needed if every Google search became an LLM interaction. Gulp

AI + ML11 Oct 2023 | 14

The alternative to stopping climate change is untested carbon capture tech

We could do most of what we need to prevent 1.5°C warming now; reversing it will be nigh impossible

Science27 Sep 2023 | 87

DoD hopes $30M BEACONS will light the way to next-gen American battery designs

And less than half the cost of a single F-35 – bargain!

Science19 Sep 2023 | 8

Graphene foam is the future of IoT power, maybe

An electrically charged spring in your step

Science07 Aug 2023 | 8

MIT boffins build battery alternative out of cement, carbon black, water

Imagine your home's foundation was its own energy-storing supercapacitor

Science02 Aug 2023 | 98

First US nuclear power plant built this century goes online

Westinghouse's 2017 bankruptcy almost ended the Vogtle 3 reactor

Science01 Aug 2023 | 32

SAE says yes to making Tesla EV chargers an American standard

Another win for Musk: Ford, GM, Rivian and Volvo have already announced plans to dump CCS

Personal Tech28 Jun 2023 | 30

NASA and miners face off over lithium deposits at satellite calibration site

There's smartphone batteries to be mined, but at what cost?

Science26 Jun 2023 | 17

Caltech claims to have beamed energy to Earth from satellite

Tech has potential to power war-torn spots and remote regions

The Reg in Space07 Jun 2023 | 43

On the bright side, solar investment finally set to surpass oil spending

But fossil fuels won't go down without a fight

Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week25 May 2023 | 8

Offshore wind power redesign key to adoption, says Irish firm

Add balance and a bit of articulation and you can shave off steel and money

Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week16 May 2023 | 26

Boffins interrogate sodium ion battery stability mystery

The mechanism still isn't completely understood, but research could help resolve SIB lifespan problems

Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week15 May 2023 | 7

Biden proposes 30% tax on cryptominers' power bills

Digi-dollars are toxic in many ways and the administration wants the sector to clean up its act

Software04 May 2023 | 71

Europe wants more cities to use datacenter waste heating. How's that going?

There's a cost, and operators are worried it will fall on them

Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week20 Apr 2023 | 58

Boffins claim discovery of the first piezoelectric liquid

Move over, magic crystals – electric syrup is here

Science29 Mar 2023 | 28

Ammo-maker says TikTok's datacenter site could deprive it of electricity

'Our future growth is challenged by the storage of cat videos'

Energy Efficient Datacenters28 Mar 2023 | 41

AWS wants to cook its datacenter chips with vegetable oil

Ditching diesel in attempt to shrink its carbon footprint

Energy Efficient Datacenters20 Mar 2023 | 18

Atomic energy body proposes fusion framework to manage British energy grids

When you need something reliable that won't drop out of support, open is the way to go

Software06 Mar 2023 | 96

Wind, solar power outstrip fossil fuel generation for EU

Coal cooked, gas dissipating as renewables power up

Science02 Feb 2023 | 141