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Growth in US data center electricity consumption and its effects on grid reliability and ratepayer costs.
New Jersey's utilities board warned power bills could rise up to 20% from June 1, with data centers a key driver. Utilities elsewhere are building the same demand into their pricing, so energy belongs among the costs an operator should expect to climb.
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Google's Project Suncatcher is launching four processors that can run Gemini for only 15 minutes before they must shut down to cool. Heat, launch mass and downlink stand between that payload and the orbital data centers SpaceX pitched when it went public in June.
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Amazon signed a 20-year deal for 690 MW from Constellation's Calvert Cliffs nuclear plant, backing a 190 MW uprate due between 2030 and 2032. Most of the contracted power is output the plant already makes, so the deal is mainly a long cost arrangement for Amazon on power that other PJM buyers share.
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Pipeline buyers led by Williams and ONEOK paid about $14.7 billion in five midstream deals while upstream M&A largely stalled, Fortune reports. Most sellers are private equity firms getting their price from buyers betting on Gulf Coast LNG and data-center gas demand.
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The agency is finalizing its repeal of the Biden-era greenhouse gas rules for power plants and proposing to eliminate what remains, opening a 45-day comment window as US electricity demand climbs again.
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The federal consultation paper would have developers bring their own new renewable generation and hold a market registration they can be called on, and it lands as AEMO pulls its 34TWh data center forecast forward to 2036.
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No state bans data centres, and New York's freeze, triggered at 1 MW of peak demand, is the only statewide one in force. Of the 15 states with named moratorium bills, six are already dead and two of the live ones end on someone else's timetable.
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Philadelphia has named two candidate data center sites, one of them in the Grays Ferry neighborhood that lived next to the East Coast's largest oil refinery, and residents there are already at City Hall asking for a moratorium.
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A Science Tokyo group read the same BiFeO3 nanodots with a polarization microscope and a magnetic one, and watched the polarization pattern turn inside out as the magnetization flipped. That is the condition voltage-written magnetic memory had to meet.
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Bluecore has a berth at Long Beach, a 185-foot barge and a federal memorandum that obliges nobody, which is a cheaper entry to the nuclear business than a licence and a much harder thing to value.
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The comptroller's office once scored the 2027-2028 cost of the exemption at $180 million and now scores it above $3 billion. The chair of Senate Finance says she may file to repeal it when the session opens in January.
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A study published August 6 reports a carbon scaffold that keeps platinum-cobalt particles under 5 nanometers at 1,000 C. It held 85% of performance after 150,000 voltage cycles.
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