Archive for the 'Infrastructure' Category
New Zealand to Charge Drivers of All Vehicles by Distance Driven
August 6th, 2025They are not saying precisely how this will be enforced, but my guess is that some sort of black box with GPS tracking will be required to be added to most vehicles. Via: Radio New Zealand: “We’re not going to shift millions of drivers from a simple system at the pump to queues at retailers. […]
Redwood Materials Repurposes Used EV Batteries for Fixed Energy Storage
August 3rd, 2025Redwood Materials is acquiring old EV battery packs that have years of useful life remaining when they are repurposed as fixed energy storage. The number of these packs is growing exponentially. Notice the wide spacing and white wrap. That’s an attempt to keep the whole place from going up in case an individual pack experiences […]
Google Offers to Buy Half the Output from Upcoming Fusion Power Plant
July 1st, 2025Via: CNBC: Google on Monday announced a partnership with Commonwealth Fusion Systems, or CFS, a private company spun off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which marks the tech giant?s first commercial commitment to fusion. The company unveiled plans to buy 200 megawatts of clean fusion power from what CFS describes as the world’s first […]
Dyson: “We’ve Got Wonderful Land, and We Should be Able to Grow Everything We Eat” – In Greenhouses?
June 29th, 2025Don’t forget the protein: Via: Dyson:
Israel Escalates To Attacking Iranian Energy Targets After Ballistic Missiles Hit Tel Aviv
June 15th, 2025Via: The War Zone: Israel has launched a new phase of Operation Rising Lion. The campaign is designed to destroy Iran’s nuclear capability and long-range weapons capacity, but now it has expanded its scope to striking at Iran’s energy infrastructure. The strikes come after a warning from Israeli officials that they would do so if […]
FAA to Eliminate Floppy Disks Used in Air Traffic Control Systems – Windows 95 Also Being Phased Out
June 9th, 2025Maybe the FAA can borrow some left over 8-inchers from the U.S. Air Force: Defense tech news site C4isrnet reports that the Strategic Automated Command and Control System (SACCS)—the communication infrastructure that transmits emergency action messages for nuclear command centers—is ditching the floppy disks. Lieutenant Colonel Jason Rossi, 595th Strategic Communications Squadron commander, told C4isrnet […]
AI Datacenter in Texas Will Have Its Own 1.2GW Gas Power Plant
June 5th, 2025Data Center Executives Pivot Toward Onsite Power: In November, data center leaders said they expected approximately 30% of all data center sites to use some onsite power as a primary energy source supplemental to the grid by 2030, 2.3 times more than just seven months earlier. The report noted there were more data center announcements […]
Meta Signs Nuclear Power Deal With Constellation To Fuel AI
June 3rd, 2025Via: ZeroHedge: Nuclear stocks moved higher in premarket trading after Meta Platforms signed a power contract with Constellation Energy for emissions-free nuclear energy from the Clinton Clean Energy Center in Clinton, Illinois. The parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp announced that it has entered into a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Constellation Energy […]
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
