#electricpower — Public Fediverse posts

Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demand - Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/texas-halts-data-center-connections-to-power-grid-amid-overwhelming-demand/ #AI #DataCenters #ElectricPower #Texas #pause

Gib ihm die volle Ladung. ⚡️⚡️⚡️ #Audi #EV #ElectricPower #Charging #Erwitte

A new collection of stock photos from the Alamy agency is available for news stories and features about electric power. Photos show wind turbines, an old coal-fired power plant, utility sub-station, and power lines.

https://write.as/technewslit/electric-power-photo-collection-now-at-alamy

#Photography #StockPhotography #ElectricPower #Alamy

The US May Have Already Lost the AI Race to China Due to a Key Weakness https://futurism.com/us-china-ai-race-energy #AI #datacenters #energy #powergeneration #electricpower #China #US

What is known about the big Iberian blackout on 2025-04-28:

https://hackaday.com/2025/06/30/the-2025-iberian-peninsula-blackout-from-solar-wobbles-to-cascade-failures/

#ElectricPower #BigIberianBlackout #grid

Mike Cannon-Brookes, the CEO of Atlassian and Australia's fifth-richest person, is struggling with the conflict between his role as a climate activist and his actions as a tech mogul. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/03/21/world/billionaires-private-jet-angst/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #climatechange #ai #tech #electricpower #mikecannonbrookes

From CNN: Israel cuts electricity to last facility in Gaza receiving Israeli #electricpower
Israel cuts electricity to last facility in #Gaza receiving Israeli power
#palestine

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/09/middleeast/israel-electricity-gaza-intl-latam

I'm a former worker for one of the major electric power utilities in the Pacific Northwest. If that company lost 20% of its workers all at once, there sure as hell would be an effect on its ability to provide reliable service and to maintan its part of the grid.

But Trump and Musk don't care about small details like this.

#FederalLayoffs #Trump #Musk #ElectricPower #BonnevillePowerAuthority #PNW

https://www.opb.org/article/2025/02/13/bonneville-power-administration-workforce-donald-trump-resign-severance-hiring/

Electric power series, five images of electric power lines and substation are now available exclusively on the Alamy stock photo agency in the Specials gallery, part of the TechNewsLit portfolio.

https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/1317563/specials.html

#Photography #StockPhotos #ElectricPower #Substation #Alamy #AlamyExclusive

The UK officially closes its last remaining coal power plant | Electrek https://electrek.co/2024/09/29/uk-officially-closes-its-last-remaining-coal-power-plant/ #ElectricPower #coalfree #RenewableEnergy

How quickly is CenterPoint overhauling its natural gas infrastructure?

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/2024/08/23/497593/how-quickly-is-centerpoint-overhauling-its-natural-gas-infrastructure/

#Business #EnergyEnvironment #Infrastructure #News #CenterPointEnergy #ElectricPower #NaturalGas #NaturalGasPipeline

Recently Completed Geophysical Survey Will Help Protect Critical Infrastructure From Geomagnetic Storms And Space Weather
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https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/recently-completed-geophysical-survey-will-help-protect-critical <-- shared technical article
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[my other ½ is a space weather scientist, until I knew her I was not fully aware of all the risks and associated hazards associated with space weather]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #spaceweather #power #telecom #critical #infrastructure #risk #hazard #geomagnetic #geomagneticstorm #geomagnetism #minerals #geothermal #mining #earth #electricpower #powergrid #impacts #conductivity #USMTArray #magnetotellurics #geology #rocks #geophysics #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #array #USA #hazardanalysis #powersystems #transformers #powerfailures #lossofpower #blackouts #overloads
@USGS @NSF @nasa @EarthScope @NOAA

Congrats to Reverion for winning the Presidential Entrepreneurship Award at our #Entrepreneurship Day! 👏The #startup developed a high-efficiency #powerplant that generates #electricpower from #biogas and produces #hydrogen from surplus energy: http://go.tum.de/703276

📷S.Kissel

Logic -- good logic -- would dictate that the absolute first problem #AI needs to solve is the issue of radically cheaper #powergeneration : lower transmission loss, and for heavens sake, sort out #FUSIONpower -- *first*.

#electricity #electricalenergy #electricpower #cleanenergy #technology #greenenergy

It looks like Utility companies have these for power distribution centers and they're called "reclosers". But when I search for "residental recloser" I don't find anything. #electrical #electricity #electricpower