Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular household and business ratepayers from the costs of feeding Big Tech’s energy-hungry data centers… Some critics question whether states have the spine to take a hard line against tech behemoths like Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta. [T]he Data Center Read more…
They haven’t built a spacecraft for travelling to our nearest star system. But engineers have designed a spacecraft that could take up to 2,400 people on a one-way trip to Alpha Centauri. The craft, called Chrysalis, could make the 25 trillion mile (40 trillion kilometer) journey in around 400 years, Read more…
One of America’s largest solar + battery storage projects is now fully online in Mojave, California. Arevon Energy’s Eland Solar-plus-Storage Project combines 758 megawatts (MWdc) of solar with 300 MW/1,200 megawatt hours of battery storage. Eland 1 reached commercial operation in December 2024, and Eland 2 recently commenced full operation. Read more…
California’s biggest electric utilities pulled off a record-breaking test during the 7pm-9pm window that is typically its time of peak demand as people come home from work. Pacific Gas & Electric and other top California power companies switched on residential batteries in more than 100,000 homes and drew power from Read more…
The Chinese government has embarked on an all-out drive to transform the technology from a remote concept to a newfangled reality, with applications on factory floors and in hospitals and government offices… “[E]xperts say Beijing is pursuing an alternative playbook in an attempt to bridge the gap” with America: “aggressively Read more…
India’s national university ranking will start penalizing institutions if a sizable number of papers published by their researchers are retracted — a first for an institutional ranking system. Nature: The move is an attempt by the government to address the country’s growing number of retractions due to misconduct. Many retractions Read more…
Brazil has launched a massive program to release millions of laboratory-bred mosquitoes engineered to carry Wolbachia bacteria, which prevents them from transmitting dengue virus. The initiative aims to protect 140 million Brazilians across 40 municipalities over the next decade. The approach has already demonstrated significant results in Niteroi, where officials Read more…