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Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 25, 2025
They require far more powerful processors called GPUs (Graphics Processing Units), consume dramatically more electricity, and need significantly more water for cooling. A single AI-focused data center can use as much electricity as a small city and as much water as a large neighborhood. to 12% (300+ TWh to 500+ TWh).
Enviromental Defense
JULY 2, 2025
To prevent equipment failure, they employ extensive cooling systems that often rely on water – and the volumes they use are staggering. 2 Energy The electricity required to power and cool date centres represents another significant environmental concern. 1 Water Data centres generate enormous heat.
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Circle of Blue
JULY 9, 2025
From that year forward, the agency predicted, the use of the dirtiest fuel to generate electricity would steadily decline, carrying with it planet-healing reductions in climate-changing air emissions and water-polluting discharges. electricity markets. At the time, the IEA forecast appeared sound. Coal production dropped. Much cleaner.
Legal Planet
JULY 29, 2025
Michael Wara at Stanford has some good advice for PPIC pollsters, because we already know people are willing to pay more for their electricity if it is clean. He promised the US would build as much new electricity capacity as China this year, E&E reports. Despite the Trump administration’s knee-jerk cancellation of a $4.9
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 9, 2025
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Circle of Blue
MAY 29, 2025
As a technology that produces no climate-changing gases and uses much less water to operate, this next generation of electricity-generating reactors makes a lot of sense. Our job was to explain how cooling water pumps failed and valves ignored control center commands early on March 28, 1979. and around the world.
Physics World
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Germany, for example, closed three of its six remaining nuclear plants on 31 December 2021, which together accounted for 6% of the country’s electricity. Most of these reactors are “big nuclear” plants producing more than 1 gigawatt of electricity (GWe), each taking decades and billions of dollars to build. Powerful stuff.
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