Microsoft inked a 20-year power purchase agreement with Chevron, locking in decades of carbon emissions from a new natural gas power plant.
Nvidia announced a new cooling system that cuts water use inside the data center. But it does nothing to address AI’s biggest water use — fossil fuel power plants.
FERC told grid operators to give data centers a fast lane for interconnections, but it failed to address electricity supply shortages.
Anthropic has joined the Frontier coalition, which received another $915M in pledges to fund carbon removal projects.
Critical Energy is turning rocket engines into geothermal power plants, and it wants to build 300 GW per year by 2045.
The Justice department says the Pentagon needs xAI to keep using its unpermitted gas turbines.
Alt Carbon said the agreement followed more than a year of scientific review and due diligence, with Microsoft requiring additional verification and data-sharing measures.
SpaceX alumni Andrew Redd is betting the ocean has vast amounts of untapped geothermal energy.
Electricity demand from AI data centers is pushing everyone — including automakers like GM and Ford — into the energy storage business.