Environmental Groups Urge Congress to Ban Data Centers

Environmental and democrat groups are lining up to oppose the artificial intelligence revolution, a technological advancement on the scale of the internet. The end result will be a victory for…

Trump’s AI “Manhattan Project”? (U.S. Department of Energy mission creep)

“The AI policy is the latest manifestation of the White House’s approach to many economic issues: centralized government actions in an attempt to sidestep normal economic policies. It starts with…

For Gen Z, Why Nuclear Energy Future Is a Unifying Force in a Divided World

Just over a year ago, the headlines were everywhere: Three Mile Island Unit 1 was coming back online as the Crane Clean Energy Center. A site that once defined an…

Big Tech May Soon Have Monopoly On Power As America Faces Energy Crisis

As Big Tech develops more artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, advocates flaunt the promise of more jobs and innovation, while others warn about the impending power crunch and potential antitrust…

Buy Electrons Before Bytes: A Practical Plan to Power the AI Boom

The AI surge is exposing an old truth: electricity is the master resource. Data‑center power demand is projected to more than double globally by 2030. In the United States, the…

No, Tribune, Short Term AI Weather Analysis Provides No Insight Concerning Climate Change

Tribune News Service: please stop confusing flash with substance. AI is not a magical oracle of climate truth — it’s a faster, sometimes cheaper way to crunch the same flawed models that have…

Electric power fantasies collide out West

It looks like the West may yet be saved from wind and solar inundation and thousands of miles of massive power lines. Of course, this collision is nationwide, but it…

Utility Bills Spiking As America’s Power Demand Takes Off

Electricity costs are surging as America’s power needs climb, driven in part by the growing demand from power-hungry artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, according to data from the Energy Information…

Grid on the Brink: PJM’s Record Auction Proves We Must Keep—and Build—More Coal Plants

We need coal-fired power. We need it now. And we will need it for decades to come. 

Natural Gas Is America’s Strategic Advantage Fueling the AI Race

Natural gas is the key to ensuring America wins in this race. Policymakers must recognize the critical intersection of energy and AI competitiveness. Accelerating the expansion and modernization of natural…

Grok’s Balanced Climate Take: E&E News Spotlights AI’s Break from Alarmist Dogma

In a world where AI is increasingly shaping public perception, Grok’s commitment to questioning the climate narrative is a win for science and reason. As Waldman’s article inadvertently shows, Grok…

Without energy abundance, America loses the AI race

The soaring demand projections we’re seeing aren’t just statistics – they’re a clarion call that America’s energy future must be built on pragmatism, not ideological preferences that take options off…

Trump’s Energy Policies Will Help U.S. Lead in Global AI Race

This realistic energy path can improve our environment, meet our economic needs, and provide cleaner, always-on energy. It will keep the U.S. economy as the world’s strongest with one of…

FERC Finally Wakes Up

Let me commend FERC for finally engaging on the crucial issue of how we might be able to power the data centers which will be essential to the United States’…

Biden Uses Last-Minute AI Executive Order To Force More Green Energy Onto The Grid

The executive order is another eleventh-hour move in what appears to be an effort to stymy President-elect Donald Trump’s energy agenda, which is expected to include a vast expansion of…

American Energy Powers AI

We can look forward to AI making it less necessary for young Americans to have toattend college and consequently falling victim to the debt associated with student loans. Many will…

AI Lions and Renewable Straw

The promotion of renewables by AI-owning investment firms is similarly confused. Either AI thrives in a world powered by the proven, reliable bounty of fossil fuels and nuclear fission, or it…

America’s Power Supply Could Be Inadequate To Meet Demand by Decade’s End, Major Consultancy Says

Bain joins a growing list of power grid operators and experts to warn that America’s electrical system is coming under strain as demand surges and regulations force the premature retirement of reliable fossil fuel-fired…

The Fatal Flaw in Artificial Intelligence: Climate Change???

The climate change debate, when viewed through the lens of AI-generated information, reveals a much larger and more insidious threat—the erosion of freedom. If AI, which is increasingly relied upon…

AI could take your computer from search to research

If AI can do our basic research, that would be extremely useful. It would free us up to do other things, like thinking and more advanced research, or even relaxing…

The Puppeteers of Perception: How AI Systems Are Designed to Mislead. Jonathan Cohler

But the neural networks, like people, cannot lie unless they’ve been trained to lie. The fact that AI companies have put in all these layers of what I call their…

Energy notes from the edge: AI latest – the energy beast is fully unleashed; and when a Bee gets an A – an insect skill set could benefit humans in an incredible way

Of interest to BOE Report readers, do note that natural gas is the only solution in the next 5-10 years to handle this crunch.

Larry Fink at WEF destroys net zero due to AI power demands: ‘The world is going to be short power. And to power these data companies you cannot have just this intermittent power like wind & solar. You need dispatchable power’

To power these data companies you can’t have intermittent power like wind & solar

AI & Data Center Load Growth: On-Site Generation, Not Government Planning

Combined heat and power using waste heat recovery is a natural for AI/data centers deserves more consideration.  We hope that we have lit that spark.

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