iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Jill Mc

Troublemakers @troublemakers.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Aaaaannnnnddddd—it’s official, and unanimous: a one year moratorium on large data centers in the city of Seattle! 💃🎉🔥

Jill Mc @jillmcardle.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

"the costs and benefits of AI aren’t... evenly distributed. The gains are most visible in the market capitalizations of a handful of technology firms. The costs, on the other hand, are showing up in very tangible ways for people who have no stake in those gains" www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

bloomberg.com

What Happens When $90 Billion of Data Centers Come to Town

Big Tech companies say northern Spain’s AI buildout is going so well, it should be a model for other parts of the EU. For local residents, the reality is more complicated.

001

Reposted by Jill Mc

Global Action Plan @globalactionplan.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us this morning outside DESNEZ, to kick off our #StopDirtyDataCentres days of action. Join an action near you this weekend: www.globalactionplan.org.uk/stop-dirty-data-centres

063

Reposted by Jill Mc

Global Action Plan @globalactionplan.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

This weekend we’re coordinating days of action with campaigners and local communities across the country, to oppose Big Tech's unchecked expansion of hyperscale data centres in the UK. Join an action near you: www.globalactionplan.org.uk/stop-dirty-data-centres

33435

Reposted by Jill Mc

Beyond Fossil Fuels @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

To claim something you need to be able to prove it. So what’s actually behind claims that AI can help solve climate change and what does the evidence actually say? Read the report @ketanjoshi.co: beyondfossilfuels.org/2026/02/17/t... @stand.earth @foeus.bsky.social @caadcoalition.bsky.social & more!

16838

Reposted by Jill Mc

Arte es Ética @arteesetica.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Muchas comunidades que viven cerca de los Centros de Datos se quedan sin acceso a agua o energía porque se la llevan estas instalaciones. «Es el momento para Europa de dejar de complacer a las Big Tech y comenzar a regular los Centros de Datos» @jillmcardle.bsky.social @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social

Tu Nube Seca Mi Río
Los Europeos están preocupados por la expansión de los Centros de Datos

https://tunubesecamirio.com/2025/10/27/los-europeos-estan-preocupados-por-la-expansion-de-los-centros-de-datos/

https://beyondfossilfuels.org/2025/10/27/europeans-agree-time-to-put-limits-on-big-tech-data-centres/

15137

Reposted by Jill Mc

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/11/2025

After all the dismissiveness and misleading presentation of growth rates, there's basically no escaping the fact that US data centre growth is a globally significant story that is directly incentivising new fossil fuel use and infrastructure growth Feeling pretty vindicated, given last year's WEO

Higher electricity generation growth: The 2025 STEPS projects over 44 000 TWh of
electricity generation worldwide in 2035, which is around 4% more than in the 2024
STEPS version. The outlook for electricity demand to serve data centres in the United
States and elsewhere are higher than in the WEO-2024, and higher demand for air
conditioning in the Middle East and North Africa also makes a large contribution to
the overall increase in electricity demand in the 2025 STEPS. Emerging grid
integration challenges in China and other major markets also help to explain the
differences in the generation mix between the two editions of STEPS. Most of the
upward revision in generation is coal-fired power in China.
 Increased natural gas consumption: The 2025 STEPS projects 350 bcm more natural
gas consumption in 2035 compared with the 2024 STEPS version. Three-quarters of
this is for electricity generation, mainly in the United States, Japan and the Middle
East, and reflects higher electricity demand and slower progress in adding
renewables to the generation mix than projected in the WEO-2024. There is also
faster growth in the use of gas for transport, notably for compressed natural gas
vehicles in China and LNG for shipping, and for industry in emerging market and
developing economies.

13811

Reposted by Jill Mc

John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I had a wonderful week reconnecting w old friends and meeting new ones at #ClimateWeek in NYC. AI and data centers dominated many of the conversations, and my mind reels at the vast discrepancies among the "expert takes" on where we are headed.

3166

Reposted by Jill Mc

Juliet Phillips @julietphillips.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

In the US, capacity auction prices - paid via costs passed on to consumers by utilities - are set to soar off the back of rocketing energy demand from data centres. Hardly seems fair that household energy bills will be used to help line the pockets of tech giants. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

reuters.com

Soaring US power auction prices set to spur new projects

Price jumps in several U.S. capacity markets signal greater revenue opportunities for power plant developers as AI demand squeezes the market and increases energy costs for consumers.

031

Reposted by Jill Mc

Beyond Fossil Fuels @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Big Tech CEOs are hungry for power, but that can’t come at the expense of the planet. All new data centres must run on renewable energy, and their growth needs to align with planetary boundaries. 👀 @jillmcardle.bsky.social @re-publica.com 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fmz...

youtube.com

re:publica 25: AI's insatiable appetite: How Big Tech’s energy demands endanger climate goals

YouTube video by re:publica

032

Reposted by Jill Mc

Amazon Employees for Climate Justice @amzn4climate.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Most of this power is fossil-fueled, which means that emissions have skyrocketed. Bloomberg reported in 2024 that without the shell game of Renewable Energy Credits (RECs), “Amazon could be forced to admit that its 2022 emissions are.. three times what the company disclosed.” archive.is/lBf5H

archive.is

1163

Reposted by Jill Mc

Amazon Employees for Climate Justice @amzn4climate.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Today Amazon released its “Sustainability” report. Predictably, what it leaves out is vastly more important than what it says. Amazon is building a dirty energy empire, spending literally hundreds of billions on data centers that will rely primarily on new fossil fuel infrastructure.

docs.google.com

PRESS RELEASE: Amazon Sustainability Report Hides Gas & Coal Empire Powering Company’s AI Ambitions

PRESS RELEASE July 16, 2025 Contact: hello@amazonclimatejustice.org Amazon Sustainability Report Hides Gas & Coal Empire Powering Company’s AI Ambitions Nearly three-quarters of Amazon’s data cente...

411256

Reposted by Jill Mc

James Martin @jamesmart1n.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Sharing this via @jillmcardle.bsky.social on LinkedIn because it’s just PERFECT👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

011

Reposted by Jill Mc

CPDPconferences @cpdpconferences.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

The Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence: How Generative AI Threatens the Renewable Energy Transition Organised by AlgorithmWatch with @spielkamp.bsky.social (moderator), @jillmcardle.bsky.social, Fanny Hidvégi, Claude Turmes, Boris Ruf More info: cpdp.be/4117 #CPDP2025 #TheWorldisWatching

The Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence: how Generative AI Threatens the Renewable Energy Transition, and who Stands to Benefit from it
You’ve read the news: A Three Mile Island reactor will be restarted to power Microsoft's AI operations (this was the site of a nuclear meltdown in 1979), Google’s emissions climbed nearly 50% over the last five years due to AI energy demand, and the only thing impressive about Amazon’s claim that it uses green energy is the chutzpah with which it lies about its creative accounting.

Still, if you think you have a good idea of generative AI’s resource demands, think again. The snippets above only present the tip of the iceberg.

To show what’s at stake, we will not only present the latest evidence on energy demand for the entire value chain of AI, including hardware production – we will also explain how it threatens the transition to renewable energy and the stability of the grid, aka critical infrastructure.

Questions to be answered:
- What do we know about resource consumption of generative AI?
- What implications does the resource consumption have for the green transition?
- What implications does the resource consumption have for the development path of Artificial Intelligence (what alternatives to “brute force” large models and Deep Learning based on very large datasets are on the table)?
- What governance tools are needed and available to reconcile AI develpoment with planetary boundaries?

Organised by AlgorithmWatch with Matthias Spielkamp (moderator), Jill McArdle, Fanny Hidvégi, Claude Turmes, Boris Ruf

More information: https://cpdp.be/4117

053

Reposted by Jill Mc

Beyond Fossil Fuels @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

ICYMI 👀 New @greenpeaceeastasia.bsky.social video on the dark side of AI, featuring @jillmcardle.bsky.social on the risks posed by largely AI-driven data centre electricity consumption in Europe.

0116

Reposted by Jill Mc

Beyond Fossil Fuels @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

"The energy consumption of 🇪🇺 data centres is putting local energy transitions at risk, either by expanding gas infrastructure or forcing other sectors to rely on power from fossil fuels," says @jillmcardle.bsky.social in new @greenpeaceeastasia.bsky.social video. 👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySfh...

youtube.com

The Dark Side of AI

YouTube video by Greenpeace International

1177

Reposted by Jill Mc

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23/04/2025

Tech companies manufacture demand for chatbots and image generation, and then that in turn manufactures demand for coal and gas. Blistering @desmog.bsky.social piece here detailing this new and disgusting symbiosis www.desmog.com/2025/04/22/a...

desmog.com

AI Energy Demand Can Keep Fossil Fuels Alive, Tech Backers Promise World’s Two Biggest Oil Producers

An AI-fossil fuel axis is forming in the U.S. and Saudi Arabia as AI advocates pledge an endless need for energy — spelling disaster for the climate.

3177116

Reposted by Jill Mc

Beyond Fossil Fuels @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Today's report on #AI and energy by the @iea.org's largely confirms our analysis published earlier this year, data centre growth is rapidly increasing & leading to more emissions. Read our report and learn about their impact on emissions & the energy transition. beyondfossilfuels.org/2025/02/10/s...

02212

Reposted by Jill Mc

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/04/2025

Ireland is interesting. Being a nexus of data centre growth it's not surprising to see rising power demand. but much of it is being met by power imports, not new renewables, or fossil fuel output. bsky.app/profile/keta... CC @hannahdaly.ie @jillmcardle.bsky.social

3175

Reposted by Jill Mc

Tara Connolly @taraconnolly.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

The headline you won't read today about the European Court of Auditors report on EU funding for NGOs is that the auditors found no wrong-doing by NGOs, nor any breach of EU values. An invented scandal to justify cutting EU funding for NGOs and distract from genuine cases of corruption.

17616

Reposted by Jill Mc

Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 20/03/2025

You can’t sue a rainbow 🌈 No matter what happens in any courtroom – our global intersectional climate movement will only keep growing stronger and louder 💚🌎 #WeWillNotBeSilenced

6345136

Reposted by Jill Mc

Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

NO CHATGPT Or other artificial stupidity: motivation
First, clarity on distinguishing AIs:
Non-generative: grammar aid, translation, dictionary, text-to-audio (e.g. Natural Reader): no problem
As long as you use the appropriate tools (least intensive in data and server energy use).
Why? Because you provide the content. Your brain is doing the most important work
Generative: ChatGPT & Co.
You only supply the prompt, the AI supplies the content.
Why is this delegation of work problematic?
3 domains: ethical, environmental, intellectual engagement.

(Caveat: generative is probably ok for computer programming, where it can be useful and save time. Not relevant to this class.)

1) AI and ethics
Mass theft of all and everything
«learning» on books, articles, blogs, social media, images, music, cultural production, without permission of authors/creators, and leading to their mass joblessness. Profits are not reditributed to originators.
Permanent destruction of the mental health of underpaid precarious tech workers in the Global South (Kenya, Philippines …):
«correction» to avoid production of violent and pedophile contents etc, tech workers are obliged to watch and correct super violent contents for days on end, leading to extreme psychological suffering and trauma, from which recovery is doubtful. No or little compensation (certainly not at the level of the suffering inflicted).
In short, an industry built on theft of real human creation and sacrifice of real human health, profiting a few megafortunes.

2) AI and (un)sustainability

Massive consumption of electricity, water, server capacity for generative AI.
Outcome: keep fossil fuel companies in business, using up new renewable capacity, without any satisfaction of basic human needs.
Massive misappropriation of the finance necessary for climate and ecological action (renewable generation, efficiency and retrofit for buildings, public transit, infrastructures for cycling etc) towards AI industry.
Overall: undermine climate action, reinforce fossil industry, waste resources necessary for human development.

3) AI and intellectual engagement

First, what learning is (or should be) about:
The goal should not (only) be the reproduction of «correct» knowledge,
But mainly personal engagement and experience of thinking about topics of interest. Personal engagement = using one’s own brain.
The most important activity for learning and intellectual engagement is the experience of making one’s own mistakes, by trial and error, corrections based on new ideas, starting over again. Learning to recognise nuances, knowledge gaps, better explanations
This kind of learning is possible only through using your own brain, not AI.
Also, Ais are not «intelligent». At all.
They simply reproduce pre-existing patterns. They «bullshit», invent false references, false facts, false data, simply because those sound plausible. VERY DANGEROUS.
If you learn how to NOT use AI, and how to research facts and data on your own, this will serve you and your communities for the rest of your life.

23556172099

Reposted by Jill Mc

Beyond Fossil Fuels @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

"AI may exist in the virtual world, but it has real life consequences, and this (BFF) new research should be a wake-up call that sustainable and limitless AI growth is a fantasy," say @jillmcardle.bsky.social & Julia Pazos in latest The Green Fix post 👉 thegreenfix.substack.com/p/ai?utm%5C_...

266

Reposted by Jill Mc

Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

This headline sounds positive when in fact the regulator has just proposed that data centre growth can continue as long as energy demand is met by their own oil and gas generation. Any pretence to supporting renewable energy has been dropped. www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

irishtimes.com

Data centres to supply electricity under proposed new rules

Energy industry regulators to publish decision on Tuesday

02613

Reposted by Jill Mc

Beyond Fossil Fuels @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

🎭 A magician never reveals their secrets—but we just did. EPH’s “coal exit” looks like a ruse, shifting polluting assets to its sister company, but behind the scenes it's still turning dirty coal profits. Read our new research in partnership with Re-set: beyondfossilfuels.org/2025/02/12/b...

beyondfossilfuels.org

Behind the Mask: Investigating EPH's coal exit claims

This report looks at the relationship between the sister companies EPH and EP Energy Transition (EPETr), both of which are owned by Czech billionaire Daniel Křetínský. EPH was established in 2009 and ...

02514

Reposted by Jill Mc

Beyond Fossil Fuels @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

"If the data centre growth relies on fossil gas, it will fuel the climate crisis. To prevent this, expansion must go hand in hand with the buildout of additional renewable energy," says @jillmcardle.bsky.social on the risks surging data centre electricity demand. www.euronews.com/next/2025/02...

euronews.com

Data centres could strain Europe's power supply by 2030, report warns

The AI-driven data centre boom could strain the continent's energy supplies and octuple emissions by the end of the decade, according to a new report.

075

Reposted by Jill Mc

Beyond Fossil Fuels @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

🧵1/ Between crypto, the cloud & AI, the digital world is growing fast. Today’s #AIActionSummit is convening world leaders and industry executives to discuss its future. We're calling on them to tackle one of the tech industry’s biggest threats: its soaring power demand. 👇

187

Reposted by Jill Mc

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/02/2025

Two other possible outcomes - less likely but definitely worth fighting for, I reckon: - Tech companies must only ever build new clean energy, but that clean energy must itself not be sucking the life from decarbonisation, electrification and energy transition - DON'T BUILD SO MANY DATA CENTRES

1252

Reposted by Jill Mc

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/02/2025

Huge new @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social report - EU's data centre frenzy could enable 121 megatonnes of CO2-e "New data centre demand alone could consume as much as the added power needed for the electrification of the entire transport sector in the EU by 2030" @jillmcardle.bsky.social

otes: This chart shows the added emissions from the newly added data centres in the EU starting
from 2025, with 2024 being the baseline at zero; Lithuania and Estonia’s 2022 GHG emission data
are from EDGAR 2023
45
.

914967

Jill Mc @jillmcardle.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Today we launched a new report on how data centres could derail the energy transition in Europe: new data centres risk increasing emissions in Europe - they must be powered by additional renewable energy or they must not be built 🤖⛽

22211

Jill Mc @jillmcardle.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Another reminder that we are not debating nuclear v renewables for #DataCentre #AI growth, we are talking about fossil fuels v renewables, and one of those options means we may miss our climate and emissions targets. I will let you guess which one 🤨 www.ft.com/content/63c3...

ft.com

AI set to fuel surge in new US gas power plants

Climate targets in peril as Big Tech turns to fossil fuels to feed energy demand

010

Jill Mc @jillmcardle.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I spoke to Business Insider to dismantle some of the hype around nuclear Nuclear is "completely off topic" as a solution for powering data centers, particularly if tech companies are serious about the 2030 deadlines they've set to meet emissions targets www.businessinsider.com/big-tech-nuc...

businessinsider.com

Big Tech's AI bets are driving a nuclear renaissance. Not everyone is buying the hype.

As Big Tech pivots to nuclear to power its AI boom, startups in the sector have to grapple with these key challenges.

000

Jill Mc @jillmcardle.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

The most sensible headline yet. #DataCentres growth driven by #AI is costing us the climate. Growth cannot continue unless a) we make sure DCs run 100% on real renewables and b) we urgently scale up renewables for all sectors irishtimes.com/opinion/edit...

irishtimes.com

The Irish Times view on data centres and climate: no more development without a renewables boost

Ireland’s ability to reach its legally binding CO2 reduction targets by 2030 would be fatally undermined by the continued growth of data centres

000

Reposted by Jill Mc

Friends of the Earth Ireland @foeireland.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Our renewables revolution was planned to get our communities off polluting, expensive fossil fuels, not to shortsightedly serve the unlimited expansion of one colossal industry.

111

Jill Mc @jillmcardle.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

'As data centre demand has expanded at the same rate as renewables generation, renewables are not delivering net reductions in fossil fuels use in power generation.' So much for the argument that unrestrained data centre growth will help the energy transition

067

Reposted by Jill Mc

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/12/2024

Hello everyone, this is all playing out exactly as we warned: nuclear gets used as a rhetorical empty future promise while big tech companies actively and knowingly increase the climate damage they're enabling today www.theregister.com/2024/12/05/m...

Day after nuclear power vow, Meta announces largest-ever datacenter powered by fossil fuels
12 comment bubble on white
Louisiana facility's three natural gas turbine plants to churn out 2,262 MW
iconBrandon Vigliarolo
Thu 5 Dec 2024 // 22:20 UTC
Richland Parish, an idyllic rural area in northeast Louisiana, USA, is set to host a gigantic new Meta datacenter.

But instead of being powered by one of the on-site nuclear power plants Zuckercorp has previously advocated for, the facility is opting to drive its AI computing workload by burning more fossil fuels.

The 4 million square foot, $10 billion facility, hailed by Louisiana governor Jeff Landry as "a game changer," is one of the largest private capital investments in the history of the bayou state and will be Meta's largest-ever datacenter, the Facebook parent said.

As the governor's announcement noted, construction on the facility will "continue through 2030" despite groundbreaking planned for this month - in other words, right in line with Meta's plans to ramp up nuclear power for its next generation of AI datacenters as shared in a request for proposals (RFP) yesterday.

Meta has decided to jump the atomic gun with this project by partnering with Entergy instead. The power generation company plans to construct three combined-cycle combustion turbine (CCCT) plants with a total energy generation capacity of 2,262 megawatts.

CCCT plants burn natural gas, but are configured (and marketed) as less pollutive than traditional natural gas power plants. Along with burning natural gas to spin a gas turbine, combined cycle plants use waste heat to spin a secondary steam turbine, thus creating more watts for their carbon buck. They're still burning natural gas to do so, of course, thus releasing more of the greenhouse gases - an issue Meta has pledged to address (with the purchase of offsets, naturally) by the end of the decade.

21499229

Reposted by Jill Mc

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/12/2024

"The rapid growth of data centres is creating the clear threat of dragging Europe back towards fossil fuels at the expense of the climate" - @jillmcardle.bsky.social at @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social Both the renewable / nuclear promises are shallow -->>> beyondfossilfuels.org/2024/12/04/p...

BIG TECH’S ‘FAUX GREEN’ SOLUTIONS

As AI-driven data centres fuel Europe’s surging power demand, tech companies are largely relying on flawed strategies to deflect climate criticism. Chief among these are the purchase of unbundled renewable energy certificates and announcements or investments in unproven Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)—neither of which address the immediate, large-scale emissions caused by data centre expansion.

Renewable Illusion
Purchasing unbundled ‘renewable energy certificates’ (known as Guarantees of Origin in Europe) has become a go-to strategy for some tech giants. By annually purchasing certificates for renewable energy generated far away and at any time of the day or year, companies claim their operations are green. However, research by the NewClimate Institute reveals that this type of annual purchasing fails to drive additional renewable projects or prevent equivalent emissions from being released elsewhere [13], undermining its effectiveness and at worst amounting to an offsetting of emissions through cheap credits. Some tech companies are moving towards more credible strategies that aim to align renewable energy purchases to their real time power use, moving away from annual matching towards hourly and local matching, and the whole industry should follow suit.

The Nuclear Mirage
Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) are another favoured talking point of Big Tech, hailed as the clean energy solution of the future. Yet, SMRs remain an immature, unproven technology from an industry characterised by delays and soaring costs. Not a single SMR is planned to deliver energy to the grid in Europe in the near term. When it comes to responding to the climate and energy challenges posed by the AI boom, today, new nuclear power is simply off topic.

These approaches form a “faux green curtain,” concealing the tech sector’s growing climate threat. Instead of relying on these false solutions, which simply aim to buy more time for fossil fuels, tech companie…

15821

Reposted by Jill Mc

Friends of the Earth Ireland @foeireland.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

"Between 2017 and 2023, nearly all growth in renewable electricity was matched by increased demand, almost entirely driven by data centres. As a result, fossil fuel use has not declined, and emissions remain stubbornly high." www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

irishtimes.com

Electrification is Ireland’s missing climate link

Electrification is the bridge between Ireland’s renewable energy potential and its climate commitments

06427

Reposted by Jill Mc

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 05/12/2024

2 recent stories: - Amazon promising carbon removal *inside* its data centres - Meta asking for nuclear power proposals for its data centres Different techs, but the same dynamic: the techs are in what I am going to call the 'greenwashing habitable zone'..... www.semafor.com/article/12/0...

Amazon AI data centers to double as carbon capture machines
Reed Albergotti
Reed Albergotti
Dec 2, 2024, 2:00pm GMT+1
tech
net zero
Orbital’s 1st Generation Material
Orbital Materials
Email

Copy link
In this article:

Title icon
The News
Title icon
Know More
Title icon
Reed’s view
Title icon
Room for Disagreement
Title iconThe News
Amazon’s data centers could soon double as carbon capture machines, offsetting the harmful effects of the massive amounts of energy required to run them.

Amazon Web Services is partnering with startup Orbital Materials, which used artificial intelligence to create a new material specifically designed for separating carbon from hot air exhaust in data centers, the companies announced Monday.

Meta seeks nuclear power for AI
Staff Writer December 5, 2024
Share this article

Meta, parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, said in a company blog post that it is seeking proposals from nuclear power developers to support its artificial intelligence (AI) and environment goals. Meta is seeking to add 1-4 GWe of new US nuclear generation capacity in the early 2030s.

“We believe that nuclear energy can help provide firm, baseload power to support the growth needs of the electric grids that power both our data centres (the physical infrastructure on which Meta’s platforms operate) as well as the communities around them,” Meta, said. The company is seeking developers with expertise in community engagement, development and permitting, and would consider either small modular reactors (SMRs) or larger nuclear reactors.

313234

Jill Mc @jillmcardle.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Data centre squad IEA Paris road trip achieved ✅🤓⚡️

160

Reposted by Jill Mc

Beyond Fossil Fuels @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Tech companies now have an opportunity - and duty - to ensure that data centre electricity demand is met sustainably. It is imperative that Europe stays on a path to phase out fossil fuels by 2035. 7/7 @jillmcardle.bsky.social

051

Jill Mc @jillmcardle.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Wow. Literally witnessing progress in reverse

000

Reposted by Jill Mc

Proof News @proofnews.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Since 2017, electricity consumption at the biggest AI makers has soared: 186% at Google 186% at Microsoft 367% at Meta The reason: AI. @agordon.me examines the electrical costs of AI in the first episode of our YouTube series on the climate impacts of AI. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFd0...

youtube.com

How AI is Hogging the Electric Grid

YouTube video by Proof News

34730

Jill Mc @jillmcardle.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

We’re off to the @iea.org #AI & Energy forum today to ask how are ask these #DataCentres going to be powered? Spoiler: if it’s gas we’re in big trouble 🔌🤖

010

Jill Mc @jillmcardle.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

DC growth is already outpacing renewables in places like Ireland. Looking forward to being at @iea.org tomorrow to discuss how exactly we will ensure that the #AI / #DataCentre boom is not powered by fossil fuels 🔌🤖⛽

011

Reposted by Jill Mc

Oisin Coghlan @oisinc.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I was asked by @thejournal.ie was the near wipeout of the Greens in #GE24 a vote against #ClimateAction and what were the prospects for action under an FF / FG led government. My take: "Climate change hasn't gone away you know" www.thejournal.ie/readme/green...

thejournal.ie

Losing the Greens from government: 'Climate Change hasn’t gone away, you know'

Oisín Coghlan of Friends of the Earth says Ireland’s climate action focus cannot be diluted now the Greens will no longer be in government.

24014

Reposted by Jill Mc

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/11/2024

How best to incentivise new clean energy? No, it's not strong government subsidies, clean power mandates, fossil phase-out and loans. Just build 392024842 red-hot overpowered text and image spam engines

datacenterfrontier.com

The Gigawatt Data Center Campus is Coming

Hyperscale tech companies are seeking campuses that can support 1 gigawatt of electric power capacity. Developers say new approaches to MegaCampuses can enable new technologies...

65213