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fromTheregister
2 weeks agoAmazon says 7-yr wait for EU grid connects is holding up DCs
AWS has moved quickly to flood the European continent with its elastic compute fabric, but while it may take two years to bring a new datacenter online, securing power for the facilities can take up to seven years, Pamela MacDougall, who heads energy markets and regulation for AWS EMEA, said in an interview with Reuters this week.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
3 months agoPG&E says data center projects may appear in San Jose area by 2026
The first power projects in PG&E's pipeline to serve data centers could appear on the grid as soon as next year, despite some hints of softening demand, as the utility titan races to meet the tech industry's hunger for the data hubs. PG&E is in the final engineering stages for electricity projects that would produce a combined 1.6 gigawatts of energy to serve data centers in the South Bay, said Mike Medeiros, PG&E vice president of strategic commercial solutions,
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fromFortune
3 months agoAI boom is making your utility bills more expensive, says BofA, and they're likely to keep going up | Fortune
Consumers are indirectly paying higher utility bills as AI-driven data center electricity demand strains the grid, raising rates and pressuring household budgets.
Environment
fromComputerWeekly.com
4 months agoGreen energy microgrids hailed as cost-effective answer to UK's datacentre energy supply woes | Computer Weekly
Expanding renewable microgrids offers a faster, cheaper way to meet UK datacentre energy demand compared with building nuclear small modular reactors (SMRs).
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