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#electricity

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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#ClimateChange and #energy

We did the math on #AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
The #emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.
The latest reports show that 4.4% of all the energy in the #US now goes toward #datacenters. The #carbon intensity of #electricity used by data centers was 48% higher than the US average.
technologyreview.com/2025/05/2

MIT Technology Review · We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.By James O'Donnell
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Marcus Adams

It's on track to outrun bitcoin mining by the end of the year. That's a lot of energy to waste on what is essentially a bullshit generator.

Headline: #AI Is Eating Data Center Power Demand—and It’s Only Getting Worse

Subtitle: A new analysis of AI hardware being produced and how it is being used attempts to estimate the vast amount of #electricity being consumed by AI.

Source: wired.com/story/new-research-e

WIRED · AI Is Eating Data Center Power Demand—and It’s Only Getting WorseBy Molly Taft
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Miss Gayle

"There is the question of whether a U.S. secretary of transportation who is a former Fox Business television host is going to be able bring transformational change to the U.S. air transport system...[and] The air traffic control system is not the only infrastructure system at risk. The American electrical grid may be subject to “‘elevated’ risk of blackouts this summer.”

Link: resilience.org/stories/2025-05

Infrastructure failure in America: Will we find a fix before the unimaginable happens? Kurt Cobb, originally published by Resource Insights May 18, 2025 Aging, crumbling transportation and electrical infrastructure in America is exposing us to possible catastrophic, cascading failures. Photo: Aerial view of the N987AK’s wreckage (2021). By the National Transportation Safety Board via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aerial_view_of_the_N987AK%27s_wreckage_(cropped).jpg "The previous administration’s infrastructure legislation set aside $13 billion to assist utilities in modernizing and expanding the electrical grid. But it’s not clear that this spending will continue under the current administration. Leaving critical infrastructure to rust, however, is asking for much bigger problems in the future. ...Complex, tightly networked systems such as these require constant upkeep and vigilance. Cascading failures can lead to long-term outages that can be devastating. Imagine, for example, if much of the American air transport system became paralyzed and stayed that way for a month. The damage would be unimaginable. And yet, we as a country have not seen fit to make the kind of investment necessary to assure the unimaginable never occurs. It behooves those who understand this to prepare accordingly."
#Infrastructure#DeferredMaintenance#Disaster
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Akshay

“Nuclear-friendly France is, according to Spain and Portugal at least, delaying new links to prevent cheap solar and wind energy from flooding the French market.

French grid operator RTE denies this. Both a cable via the Bay of Biscay and an overland powerline should address the shortage.”

politico.eu/article/france-nee

POLITICO · Portugal to demand EU put pressure on France over power connectorsBy Koen Verhelst
#Energy#Renewables#Europe
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Voting is Your POWER

Kenya’s latest energy policy review shows that electricity access rose from 37% in 2013 to 79% in 2023. Almost everybody living in an informal urban settlement now has access to an electricity connection, raising the overall urban access rate to nearly 100%. The Kenyan government is aiming to reach 100% electricity access by 2030 and 100% renewable electricity generation by 2035.
#Africa #Kenya #electricity

forbes.com/sites/christinero/2

ForbesKenya More Than Doubled Electricity Access Over A DecadeElectricity access soared from 37% in 2013 to 79% in 2023, and Kenya is reaching toward fully renewable electricity in the next decade. But significant gaps remain.
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John :au: :60: :05: :12: :GP:

#TasNetworks not equipped to handle 2024 #storm event & #outages, review finds.

In August last year, #Tasmania was hit by a #severe #weathersystem that lasted for five days.

It pummelled the state with heavy rain, #flooding & damaging winds that caused #extensivedamage to the #electricity #distributionnetwork.

All in all, 47,000 customers were left without power in the middle of winter, some for a week or more. #auspol

abc.net.au/news/2025-05-15/tas

ABC News · TasNetworks not equipped to handle 2024 storm event and outages, review findsBy Jessica Moran
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

The #AI Boom Is Draining #Water From the Areas That Need It Most
A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new #datacenters built or in development in the #US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.
The data centers that power #artificialintelligence consume immense amounts of water to cool hot #servers and, indirectly, from the #electricity needed to run these facilities.
bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai
archive.ph/tf090

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Edwin G. :mapleleafroundel:

The Ontario :flagon: electric grid was composed of 16% of fossil gas in 2024, the highest use of carbon-emitting power since 2012.

thecanadianpressnews.ca/busine
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La grille électrique de l’Ontario :flagon: a été composée à 16% de gaz fossile en 2024, le plus haut taux de composition depuis 2012 d’énergie émettant du carbone.

// Article en anglais //

thecanadianpressnews.caOntario electricity produced with rising percentage of greenhouse-gas-emitting powerTORONTO - Ontario's electricity is now being produced with the highest percentage of greenhouse-gas-emitting power since coal plants were operating in the province.
#Ontario#Electricity#Électricité
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Voting is Your POWER

In Nepal, electricity access has now reached 97.5% of municipalities.

The speed of this progress is really quite something. If we go back to 2016, only 58% of households had electricity access and there were around three million electricity customers; by 2024, this had risen to almost six million! #Nepal #electricity #asia

english.makalukhabar.com/2025/

English.MakaluKhabar.comNEA publishes white paper: Electricity access reaches over 97% in municipalities<p>KATHMANDU: The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has released a white paper outlining the current state of the country’s electricity sector. The document was unveiled within a month of Executive Director Hitendra Dev Shakya assuming office. According to the white paper, electricity access has now reached 97.5% of municipalities. On a ward level, the coverage is […]</p>
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The Tanzanian government has set an ambitious goal of universal electricity access by 2030, and its progress, from a mere 14% national coverage in 2011 to 46% in 2022, is one of the fastest expansion rates in Sub-Saharan Africa.

A key driver has been its rural electrification program, which has connected nearly eight million people, over 1,600 healthcare facilities, about 6,500 educational institutions, and more than 16,000 businesses to the grid. #Africa #tanzania #electricity

worldbank.org/en/news/feature/

World BankLet There be Light: In Tanzania, More Electricity Brings Better Education and HealthThe World Bank is supporting the expansion of energy access through initiatives like the Tanzania Rural Electrification Expansion Program.
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AskPippa🇨🇦

Researchers in Alberta are developing saltwater batteries.
"“With current options for energy storage like lithium batteries being too expensive for long-duration storage, Aqua-Cell Energy is everything lithium is not,” he says. “Our flow battery pumps saltwater through a battery stack where electricity is applied to store energy in the saltwater.”

He shares that when this process is run in reverse, it generates usable electricity.

“Our technology is the world’s most environmentally friendly #battery storage option … and using low-cost saltwater as the electrolyte allows for affordable long duration energy storage of upwards of 12 hours.” "

#energy #electricity #cleanenergy #engineering #solar #sustainable #tech
uwaterloo.ca/news/global-futur

Waterloo News · Turning saltwater into solar power | Waterloo NewsWaterloo researchers, students and alumni are leading innovations to solve the climate crisis by developing sustainable technologies today for the future, and Keith Cleland (MASc ’22) is no exception. His passion for environmental sustainability and expertise in electrochemistry converged to launch Aqua-Cell Energy Inc. — a startup dedicated to designing affordable and safe
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

If the world covered every suitable #roof with #solar panels, it could supply 2/3 of humanity’s total #electricity consumption – allowing the globe to transition completely off of #fossifuell electricity generation, according to a new study out of the University of Sussex.
It found that rooftop solar could provide a total of 19,483TWh of electricity, which is about 2/3 of global electricity use (which was 29,664TWh in 2023).
electrek.co/2025/03/14/coverin

Electrek · Covering every roof with solar could supply 2/3 of global electricity – studyBy Jameson Dow
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