Hydro-Québec Wants Data Centres to Pay Double. Bell Turns to Gas
Quebec's utility wants big data centres to pay an average of 13 cents a kilowatt-hour, up from 6.82, and Google is opposing…
Climate
Where the AI boom meets the energy transition: data-center power and water demand, clean-energy contracts, grid data and climate-tech funding. We check the green claims against the utility records and the reservoir levels.
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San Francisco and Oakland Pause New Data Centres in AI’s Hometown
Both councils passed 45-day moratoriums on Oct. 6, freezing a Bayview expansion and a proposed Dogpatch site. Ontario towns did it first,…
Charlton Data Centre: Greenwich Wants 8,000 Homes, Not 180MW of Servers
Royal Greenwich has said 'no ifs, no buts' to a Patrizia-backed data centre on the Thames before a full application exists. The…
AI’s Electricity Bill in 6 Numbers, and Why Nobody’s Estimates Agree
The IEA now puts data-centre demand at 485 TWh and climbing toward 950 by 2030. Here's what each headline figure measures, and…
Five Drops, Nine Trillion Litres
Industry measures AI's thirst by the drop. The UN measures it by the reservoir. Both are using real numbers.
Offshore wind’s first heat wave trimmed New England’s oil burn
Vineyard Wind and Revolution Wind posted their first peak-day numbers in July's heat dome. Less oil burned, but how much depends on…
The steel county powering Google’s AI with sunlight, on paper
America's top steel county is hosting the biggest US solar-plus-storage build, sold to Google through a contract that moves accounting entries, not…
Climate tech’s $26 billion half is really the data-center trade
Climate tech's H1 funding rose 55% to $26 billion, but deal count hit a five-year low and low-carbon data centers took 34…