Archive for the 'Energy' Category
Trump Orders Dramatic Speedup of U.S. Nuclear Energy Development, “Win the AI Arms Race with China”
May 23rd, 2025So it goes… Via: EENews: President Donald Trump on Friday directed his administration to launch fast-track development of new nuclear power plants, ordering the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to complete licensing of new reactor designs within 18 months and the Department of Energy to speed up reactor testing and start building on federally owned land over […]
OpenAI’s Stargate AI Facility in Texas Will Consume 1 Gigawatt of Power
May 20th, 2025The scale is very wild… Via: Bloomberg: In other news, Musk wrote, “Colossus 2 will be the first Gigawatt AI training supercluster.” Colossus 2 will be the first Gigawatt AI training supercluster https://t.co/HPjEeqg3be — Kekius Maximus (@elonmusk) May 20, 2025 Related: AI’s Energy Footprint
“Two People Familiar with the Matter” Claim Undocumented Cellular Radios Found in Chinese Solar Inverters, Batteries
May 15th, 2025While this wouldn’t surprise me in the least, the article is very thin on details. It doesn’t include any evidence at all to support the claims. Hopefully, this will get security researchers looking into the matter and publicly outing the manufacturers and models of the offending products. Via: Reuters: U.S. energy officials are reassessing the […]
White House Announces Saudi Arabia Spending $600 Billion on U.S. Goods and Services, Largest Weapons Deal Ever
May 13th, 2025Via: White House: Today in Saudi Arabia, President Donald J. Trump announced Saudi Arabia’s $600-billion commitment to invest in the United States… The first deals under the announcement strengthen our energy security, defense industry, technology leadership, and access to global infrastructure and critical minerals. … Underscoring our commitment to strengthening our defense and security partnership, […]
Will Supercapacitors Come to AI’s Rescue?
May 6th, 2025Musk had to use expensive Tesla Megapacks to handle the massive power fluctuations at xAI: AI datacenters, especially during training, bring extreme power fluctuations due to the nature of neural networks (gradient descent). xAI has the largest AI data centers. xAI is using Tesla Megapacks to handle millisecond power fluctuations. Supermicro provided the racks and […]
Large Power Outage Affects Spain, France and Portugal
April 28th, 2025Via: Telegraph: The mass power outages across Spain, Portugal and parts of France could take up to 10 hours to restore after it emerged the blackouts were probably caused by a technical fault. The power networks were in a race against time to restore electricity before sunset when solar generation is likely to cut off […]
Harald Malmgren Interviewed Days Before His Death: Bluegill Triple Prime High Altitude Nuclear Test Destroyed UFO
April 23rd, 2025Summary by Richard Dolan: Via: Jesse Michels:
Remarks by Michael Kratsios, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the Endless Frontiers Retreat: “Our Technologies Permit Us to Manipulate Time and Space”
April 17th, 2025Hmm. Transcript below. Via: The White House: Our technologies permit us to manipulate time and space. They leave distance annihilated, cause things to grow, and improve productivity.
CHINA SUSPENDS RARE EARTH EXPORTS
April 15th, 2025Via: New York Post: China has stopped shipping some heavy rare earth metals and magnets critical to US production of everything from cell phones to fighter jets as Beijing’s trade war with Washington simmers, leaving American industry in a bind. Effective April 3, China is no longer exporting seven heavy rare earth metals processed exclusively […]
Sodium Ion Batteries
April 11th, 2025These look interesting for stationary storage. Via: Undecided:
