#powergrids — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #powergrids, aggregated by home.social.
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Offshore Wind Helps New England Beat Record Heat
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.theenergymix.com/offshore-wind-helps-new-england-beat-record-heat/
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Y’all, there’s a county in #Virginia, with less than half a million people, that has 37 data centers, and they’re fixing to pave over the civil war battlefields to add 17 more.
Folks who live there have seen power prices spike, and have been told to expect another 25% spike. They’ve also been trying to stop the data center buildouts, but uh…Capital finds a way.
Now, rather than say, teaching a district wide course about Luddites and what they fought for, the superintendent of schools sent out a letter telling teachers to close their blinds and turn off laptops.
Stupidest. Timeline. Ever.
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Severe #weather is increasingly impacting #datacentres, a critical component of the #AIboom. #Extremeheat, in particular, poses a threat by stressing data centres and the #powergrids they rely on. To mitigate these risks, data centre operators are adapting their designs, including raising chiller temperatures and incorporating #climatechange factors into specifications. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/29/ai-data-centers-heatwave-climate-risk-weather.html?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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Calgary Coalition Aims to Clear Path for Balcony Solar Adoption in Canada
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‘Deep Geopolitical Uncertainty’ Produces Shifts in Global Energy Investment: IEA
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Batteries are getting cheaper.
#batteries #electricity #powergrids
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-04-19/cheap-batteries-are-taking-over-the-world-s-power-grids?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3NjYxNDg3MiwiZXhwIjoxNzc3MjE5NjcyLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJURFIwRzhLR1pBSjkwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJBQzRCN0ZENTY4M0I0RDAxOTZFNzQ0N0NCNTBCMzM3RiJ9.XoAUcb60mLrXqV2NcKV-3cLHEzvFLSQ7VIh_clUtMz0&leadSource=uverify%20wall -
The path toward sustainable AI lies in combining quantum computing with energy-efficient application design. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/04/06/world/quantum-computing-ais-sustainability-problem/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #ai #hpc #grok4 #google #un #sdgs #sqai #quantumcomputing #qubits #pasqal #electricity #powergrids #windfarms #energy
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New Brunswick Gas Plant Faces Growing Backlash Over Costs, Climate Impact
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Canada Finances 396-MW Solar Project in Peru. Provinces Install 57 MW at Home. But That Story is Changing.
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Proposed new mission will create artificial solar eclipses in space
#Tech #NASA #ESA #SpaceWeather #SolarStorms #Sun #SolarEclipse #SpaceScience #Astrophysics #Satellites #PowerGrids #GPS #TechRisk #ClimateSpace #Astronomy #SpaceResearch #FutureTech
https://the-14.com/proposed-new-mission-will-create-artificial-solar-eclipses-in-space/ -
Webinar: Power grids data quality - the impact on Energy System Planning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ7V36CJ_JE
Check out: mapyourgrid.org #OpenStreetMap #MapYourGrid #PyPSA-Earth #powermodelling #powergrids #energytransition #gridinspector #podoma #osmose #powerplantm...
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Insight: Rogue communication devices found in #Chinese #solar power inverters
Using the rogue communication devices to skirt firewalls and switch off inverters remotely, or change their settings, could destabilise #powergrids, damage #energy infrastructure, and trigger widespread #blackouts, experts said. "That effectively means there is a built-in way to physically destroy the grid," one of the people said.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/ghost-machine-rogue-communication-devices-found-chinese-inverters-2025-05-14/
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When folks in Spain and Portugal have had time to recover, charge their phones, and kissed their refrigerators, I would very much appreciate reading about their experience the last 24 hours and what preparation measures (personal and communal) they would put in place in the future/ recommend the rest of is do. #PowerGrids #spain #portugal
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How Future #Hurricanes Could Stress #PowerGrids of #US #Cities
A new analysis shows increasing frequency and intensity of hurricanes could cause more devastating interruptions to the #powergrid. The risk of #hurricane-induced #poweroutages could become 50% higher in some areas of the #UnitedStates including #PuertoRico because of climate change in the coming decades, according to a new analysis.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/climate/hurricanes-power-outages.html
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The World’s Power Grids Are Failing as the Planet Warms
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/world-power-grids-failing-planet-040040012.html
Under the blazing Adriatic sun, life almost stopped in Montenegro’s capital Podgorica earlier this summer. Cars and buses were stuck in gridlock as traffic lights went out, the internet crashed, and security alarms blared in reaction to a sudden loss of power supply…
#PowerGrids #Incapable #ClimateChange #Failure #Global #HeatWaves #ClimateDestruction
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AI's Energy Demands Are Out of Control. Welcome to the #Internet's #HyperConsumption Era
Generative artificial intelligence tools, now part of the everyday user experience online, are causing stress on local #PowerGrids and mass water evaporation.by Reece Rogers
July 11, 2024"In addition to high levels of #energy usage, the data centers that train and operate generative AI models consume millions of gallons of #water.
"The water that is available for people to use is very limited. It's just the fresh surface water and #groundwater. Those data centers, they're just evaporating water into the air,' says Shaolei Ren, a responsible AI researcher at UC Riverside and coauthor of 'Making AI Less ‘Thirsty’: Uncovering and Addressing the Secret Water Footprint of AI Models.'
"While it may appear similar at first, the impact on the local #environment from companies operating giant data centers is not comparable to the impact from residents who may take multiple bubble baths a week or leave the faucet running while they brush their teeth. 'They're different from normal, residential users. When we get the water from the utility, and then we discharge the water back to the sewage immediately, we are just withdrawing water—we're not consuming water,' Ren says. 'A data center takes the water from this utility, and they evaporate the water into the sky, into the atmosphere.' He says the water consumed by data centers may not return to the earth’s surface until a year later.
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"Around the world, the server farms that train and operate AI models may compete with local residents and businesses for power—possibly leading to #blackouts during peak times."
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-energy-demands-water-impact-internet-hyper-consumption-era/
#WaterIsLife #NoNewNukes #RethinkNotRestart #Cryptocurrency #AI #Energy #ArtificialIntelligence #PowerGrids #DataCenters #DigitalLifestyle #Bitcoin #EnergyConsumption
