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- Artificial Intelligence: A Working Demonstration, and Why Big Tech Ditched Big Green Sat, 16 Nov 24, 6:00amThe real reason Silicon Valley silent quit on the Democrats, and quietly backed President Trump's America first energy policies.
- Reasons to be hopeful: five ways science is making the world better Sat, 9 Nov 24, 9:00pmIf Trump’s re-election is getting you down, these innovations in medicine and technology should cheer you up
- Wednesday briefing: What does Google’s move into nuclear power mean for AI – and the world? Wed, 16 Oct 24, 4:48pmIn today’s newsletter: Google will soon use nuclear reactors to run its AI datacentres. What are the economic, ethical and environmental implications?
- Google to buy nuclear power for AI datacentres in ‘world first’ deal Tue, 15 Oct 24, 6:52pmTech company orders six or seven small nuclear reactors from California’s Kairos Power
- Former Google CEO on AI: “we’re not going to hit the climate goals anyway…” Thu, 10 Oct 24, 12:00pm... any moves to curtail the expanding amounts of energy consumed in developing ... ever more advanced AI models are futile...
- French AI summit to focus on environmental impact of energy-hungry tech Thu, 3 Oct 24, 3:43amEvent will push for greater transparency and aims to rank AI firms in terms of ability to meet climate goals
- Data center emissions likely 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse? Mon, 16 Sep 24, 1:00amEmissions from in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official tally
- The Puppeteers of Perception: How AI Systems Are Designed to Mislead. Jonathan Cohler Tue, 3 Sep 24, 7:00pmBut the neural networks, like people, cannot lie unless they've been trained to lie. The fact that AI companies have put in all these layers of what I call their control program... they're nervous that once people figure...
- Forbes: AI is Driving Corporations to Abandon Climate Commitments Sun, 1 Sep 24, 3:00amYet more evidence yesterday's utopian corporate climate mission statements are today's shredder trash.
- Is the dream of nuclear fusion dead? Why the international experimental reactor is in ‘big trouble’ Sun, 4 Aug 24, 2:00amThe 35-nation Iter project has a groundbreaking aim to create clean and limitless energy but it is turning into the ‘most delayed and cost-inflated science project in history’
- The lawless mining gangs targeting the Amazon’s precious green energy minerals Fri, 2 Aug 24, 9:00pmAs demand for the tin ore cassiterite soars, special forces units of Brazil’s Ibama environment agency must play a cat and mouse game with the thousands of illegal miners pouring into Yanomami reserves
- Sceptics say EVs will overwhelm the grid. In fact, they could be part of the solution Mon, 15 Jul 24, 4:00pmElectric vehicles are ‘batteries on wheels’ that can put energy back into the National Grid when solar panels and windfarms do not provide much power
- British electricity prices could hinder switch to green technology, says steel industry Thu, 4 Jul 24, 10:33pmUK Steel says British firms paid prices in spring well over double French and Spanish equivalents
- Can the climate survive the insatiable energy demands of the AI arms race? Thu, 4 Jul 24, 3:00pmNew computing infrastructure means big tech is likely to miss emissions targets but they can’t afford to get left behind in a winner takes all market
- AI drive brings Microsoft’s ‘green moonshot’ down to earth in west London Sat, 29 Jun 24, 7:00pmTech firm’s bid to remove more CO2 than it produces is being tested as AI spawns new energy-hungry datacentres