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Can we electrify the world? Ambition takes centre stage in pre-Cop31 climate talks

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Apart from effort to electrify, there were geopolitical tensions around climate science and the 1.5C goalElectrifying the world – with electric vehicles, electric heating and cooling, and modernised heavy industry – could be the next biggest step towards phasing out fossil fuels, replacing the 80% of global energy that still comes from hydrocarbons. As using […]

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Trump’s DoJ intervenes to back Elon Musk in datacenter pollution lawsuit

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Justice department urges judge to throw out suit brought by NAACP over xAI’s methane-gas turbines in MississippiThe Trump administration is coming to the defense of Elon Musk in a lawsuit over claims that his artificial intelligence company, xAI, is polluting residential neighborhoods in north Mississippi. The justice department told a federal court late on Monday

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AI could help win ‘race against extinction’ of vital plants, say botanists

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Tech is helping to identify and save new specimens and could open ‘genomic goldmine’ of fungi dataThe rise of AI and digitisation could be a turning point in the “race against extinction” faced by botanists trying to identify and save vital plants before they vanish, according to a major report from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.New

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Labor to set terms for datacentre and AI growth as it vows not to repeat mistakes of resources boom

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Assistant minister agrees concerns over resource usage are legitimate but argues Australia cannot ignore ‘consequential’ economic waveFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia should learn from the mistakes of the resources boom and set the terms for the AI and datacentres boom, the

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World’s first wind-powered underwater datacentre starts operating in China

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Datacentre off Shanghai coast uses less power and water than land-based equivalent The world’s first wind-powered underwater datacentre has started operations off the coast of Shanghai, as China presses forwards with solutions for energy challenges created by the country’s artificial intelligence boom.The Shanghai Lingang undersea datacentre demonstration project, which launched in May, has a capacity

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Majority of US’s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land

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Guardian analysis finds facilities to be built in some of the driest areas as outcry grows over water needed to power AIA record-shattering drought has racked much of the US. But the artificial intelligence industry is pushing ahead regardless, with the majority of planned datacenters set to be built in drought-ridden locations, a Guardian analysis

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A disease of deforestation: how Ebola is linked to the smartphone in your pocket

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As demand for cobalt, gold and other minerals grows, mining is accelerating deforestation in the Congo basin – and increasing the risk of deadly Ebola outbreaksFor decades after the discovery of Ebolavirus in 1976, outbreaks of the disease were relatively small and contained, affecting a few hundred people at most.Not any more. In recent years,

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‘Happiness is not just about GDP’: ambitious plan or utopia?

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Some will question its credibility. But the alternative future to the one imagined in the World Justice Report is far more bleak• Academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survivalIn our increasingly dystopian world, who wouldn’t want to at least be open to a utopian antidote? The World Justice Report, published on Thursday, outlines how

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In first, California city overwhelmingly votes to permanently ban datacenters

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While many US city councils have passed moratoriums, Monterey Park is first where residents have voted on a banSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailResidents in Monterey Park, California, became the first in the US to vote on a permanent ban on datacenters on Tuesday, and early results indicate a resounding victory for

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Irish datacentres have increased household bills by hundreds of euros, report finds

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Growing fleet of datacentres last year used 22% of the country’s electricityEnergy demand by datacentres in Ireland has added hundreds of euros to household electricity bills in a pattern that could be replicated across Europe, according to a new report.The centres have “drained” €715m (£620m) from the Irish economy and increased household bills by a

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