Tech Titans Join Forces to Bet $50 Billion on AI and Power Projects
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Tech Titans Join Forces to Bet $50 Billion on AI and Power Projects

Live Mint  

Major Wall Street firms KKR and Energy Capital Partners have joined forces to invest $50 billion in data-center and power-generation projects to support the development of artificial intelligence. The investment will be spread over the next four years and will focus on near-term solutions to ease the hurdles tech companies are facing in building data centers.

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Big Tech Will Scour the Globe in Its Search for Cheap Energy
1 week, 2 days ago

Big Tech Will Scour the Globe in Its Search for Cheap Energy

Wired  

On the southern tip of Malaysia lies the state of Johor, renowned for its beaches and mountainous jungle. But Johor has a new boom industry: data centers to power generative AI, with Microsoft committing more than $2 billion on just such a data center. This draw to deliver AI is so powerful that big tech firms are buying dirty power …

Tech companies are signing nuclear deals because AI is sucking up too much energy
2 months, 1 week ago

Tech companies are signing nuclear deals because AI is sucking up too much energy

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. And most recently, Amazon has perhaps taken the biggest step of the trio, signing three deals to …

Amazon, Google tap into nuclear power to fuel data centers and AI push
2 months, 1 week ago

Amazon, Google tap into nuclear power to fuel data centers and AI push

LA Times  

Data centers like this one in Santa Clara, Calif., consume massive amounts of energy. Amazon and other tech giants have announced plans to invest in nuclear power to help meet rising demands for clean energy. Amazon on Wednesday announced plans to invest in nuclear power production to fuel its data centers with clean energy, a key part of the e-commerce …

Editorial: Generative AI is an energy hog and that could hurt progress fighting climate change
4 months, 1 week ago

Editorial: Generative AI is an energy hog and that could hurt progress fighting climate change

LA Times  

Artificial intelligence is one of the world’s fast-growing technologies, with Google, Microsoft, Meta, Apple and others rolling out generative AI models. It’s also one of the most energy-intensive technologies, and that is raising alarm that AI data centers’ thirst for electricity will increase planet-warming emissions and strain the electrical grid. Data centers, or large buildings filled with computer servers, already …

Power-hungry AI data centers are raising electric bills and blackout risk
4 months, 1 week ago

Power-hungry AI data centers are raising electric bills and blackout risk

LA Times  

Near the Salton Sea, a company plans to build a data center to support artificial intelligence that would cover land the size of 15 football fields and require power that could support 425,000 homes. In Santa Clara — the heart of Silicon Valley — electric rates are rising as the municipal utility spends heavily on transmission lines and other infrastructure …

Google falling short of important climate target, cites electricity needs of AI
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Google falling short of important climate target, cites electricity needs of AI

Associated Press  

Three years ago, Google set an ambitious plan to address climate change by going “net zero,” meaning it would release no more climate-changing gases into the air than it removes, by 2030. Google cited artificial intelligence and the demand it puts on data centers, which require massive amounts of electricity, for last year’s growth. “We know this is not going …

Google falling short of important climate target, cites electricity needs of AI
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Google falling short of important climate target, cites electricity needs of AI

The Independent  

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