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How Europe’s EV makers shrank their product to challenge the bloated SUVs

Smaller, cheaper cars built for narrow city streets are becoming more stylish – but require careful design decisionsThe winding backstreets of London, Paris and Rome are a large part of their charm. But they are also a problem for electric carmakers. For a long time, squeezing big batteries into smaller, cheaper cars to fit European […]

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

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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China’s AI just mapped its entire renewable energy grid. Here’s why the rest of the world should pay attention

Every major economy is staring at the same problem right now. Artificial intelligence is consuming electricity at a pace that grids were never designed to handle. In the US, capacity market prices in PJM, the country’s largest grid operator, have risen more than tenfold in two years, with data-centre growth identified as a primary driver.

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If Australia is home to an AI gold rush, let’s not squander it. Let’s fjord a different path | Peter Lewis

Tech titans appear to be cosying up to Canberra with an eye to training data models here. An AI wealth fund could share in the profitsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe CEOs of AI titans Microsoft and Anthropic have been duchessing Canberra. The reason? They have bet the house that

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Datacentres should be forced to invest in wind and solar energy, agree all states except Queensland

State and federal energy ministers said investments in new renewable generation and energy storage should “fully offset” new data centres’ energy needs Power hungry datacentres that are growing to meet the energy demand of artificial intelligence could be forced to invest in enough new solar and wind generation to completely cover their electricity needs.State and

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Wave-Powered Ocean Data Centres: Inside Panthalassa’s $140M Bet

Peter Thiel just backed Panthalassa with $140M to build wave-powered ocean data centres. Here’s how the tech works and why it matters for AI infrastructure. The post Wave-Powered Ocean Data Centres: Inside Panthalassa’s $140M Bet appeared first on 1redDrop.

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Silicon Valley bets $200M on AI data centers floating in the ocean

Silicon Valley investors, such as Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel, have bet hundreds of millions of dollars on deploying AI data centers powered by waves in the middle of the world’s oceans—a move that coincides with the mounting challenges tech companies are facing in building AI data center projects on land. The latest investment round of

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Working to advance the nuclear renaissance

Today, there are 94 nuclear reactors operating in the United States, more than in any other country in the world, and these units collectively provide nearly 20 percent of the nation’s electricity. That is a major accomplishment, according to Dean Price, but he believes that our country needs much more out of nuclear energy, especially

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‘Big energy users’: how will datacentres affect Australia’s power prices, water supply and emissions?

There’s a growing expectation that if you build a datacentre, you must meet your own energy needs. But there are other key policy questions that need answeringGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastOur online lives are increasingly reliant on digital data, whether it’s asking an AI chatbot a question, generating a

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‘We’re being turned into an energy colony’: Argentina’s nuclear plan faces backlash over US interests

Push to restart uranium mining in Patagonia has sparked fears about the environmental impact and loss of sovereignty over key resourcesOn an outcrop above the Chubut River, one of the few to cut across the arid Patagonian steppe of southern Argentina, Sergio Pichiñán points across a wide swath of scrubland to colourful rock formations on

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