science Trump-shuttered climate change site back online in nonprofit hands Remove something from the internet? You can't stop the (climate change) signal, Mal
Science Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year Cool, but fossil-fuel additions and AI-era power demand still muddy the climate math
AI + ML Don't believe the hyperscalers! AI can't cure the climate crisis From AI conflation to thin evidence, a new report calls many climate claims greenwashing
Science New carbon capture tech could save us from datacenter doom Maybe our AI overlords, hell-bent on securing power any way they can, should invest in getting this to market
AI + ML Fire up the gas turbines, says US Interior Secretary: We gotta win the AI arms race Climate change? No worry - we can solve that later, argues Doug Burgum
Offbeat You've got drought: UK gov suggests you save water by deleting old emails Keep calm and clear out that inbox. Also maybe lay off the GenAI
Off-Prem Google’s latest renewable energy deal is all gas bags and hot air At least big bags of CO2 can be built faster than a fusion plant
Legal UN World Court declares countries must curb emissions or be held responsible But it has no way to compel scofflaws to comply
Science The real reason why Trump is killing the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawai'i The Keeling Curve, measured there, is irrefutable evidence of increasing CO2 emissions
On-Prem Trump tax law keeps Bill Gates' nuclear datacenter dreams alive The Microsoft cofounder breathed that sigh of relief in a Cipher News interview - just before it folded
Systems Datacenters feeling the heat as climate risk boils over A warmer world will affect bit barn resilience, warn consultants
Networks Semiconductor industry could short out as copper runs dry Climate risks threaten to fry the supply chain for essential chipmaking metal
Off-Prem How ZTE turns green goals into climate action that works It's not easy being green, but comms giant walks the walk
Science US Department of Defense will stop sending critical hurricane satellite data No replacement in the wings for info streamed from past their prime rigs, 'termination will be permanent'
On-Prem The one thing SME IT can do that the big guys can’t: Change the world Not quite the answer to life, the universe and everything, but not far off
Personal Tech European consumers are mostly saying 'non' to trading in their old phones Are they using it to death then locking it in a drawer? Schemes needed as shipments of refurbed kit dips
On-Prem Datacenters have a public image problem, industry confesses to The Reg 'Most people are f**king scared of AI, like we're feeding a monster'
On-Prem Datacenter biz wants to turn heat and carbon waste into biomass for sale From bit barn to algae farm?
AI + ML Estimating AI energy usage is fiendishly hard – but this report took a shot And it gets even harder when you try to estimate CO2 emissions
On-Prem Hydrotreated vegetable oil is not an emission-free swap for diesel in datacenters Biofuel lowers pollutants, but won't eliminate 'em, and could mean DCs compete for supplies
On-Prem Sustainability still not a high priority for datacenter industry Extreme weather is such a problem when building bit barns... hmmm, wonder what could be causing that?
AI + ML Global datacenter electricity use to double by 2030, say policy wonks. Yup, it's AI No worries, just use neural networks to optimize systems powering neural networks
Networks Brit telcos ask suppliers to clean up emissions mess – politely, with no teeth Digital Connectivity Forum lays out climate goals, but enforcement is strictly optional
On-Prem Euro businesses flummoxed by Scope 3 emissions Measuring all the dirty work of the supply chain and other indirect influences? Ugh, just give us the fine
Science Here's the ugliest global-warming chart you'll ever need to see Earth is running a fever. That's not news. What's surprising is exactly how fast its temperature is rising
On-Prem Our world faces 'unprecedented' spike in electricity demand And it's not just datacenters driving the need for 3,500 TWh of new energy generation by 2027
Science Humans brought the heat. Earth says we pay the price Amid wildfire death and destruction, there are solutions, workable smart solutions, but who wants to talk about that?
Science Los Angeles wildfires force tens of thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL closed Crews battle to keep people, homes, science safe
Off-Prem Google thinks the grid can't support AI, so it's spending on solar for future datacenters Deal with Intersect Power will see gigawatts of compute capacity come online
On-Prem Day after nuclear power vow, Meta announces largest-ever datacenter powered by fossil fuels Louisiana facility's three natural gas turbine plants to churn out 2,262 MW
Science Abandoned US Army 'city under the ice' imaged in serendipitous NASA find Camp Century could spill millions of gallons of sewage, diesel fuel, and nuclear waste as climate warms
On-Prem Euro execs extend net zero timescales amid energy cost and supply crunch Environmental, social, and governance? Cutting money spent on power is CEOs' priority
Off-Prem Musk, Bezos need just 90 minutes to match your lifetime carbon footprint, says Oxfam Between jets, yachts and investments in destructive companies, billionaires are speed running the apocalypse
On-Prem Datacenter developer says power issues holding up new builds 'The single biggest constraint is access,' says exec looking to invest 'hundreds of millions'
AI + ML GenAI's dirty secret: It's set to create a mountainous increase in e-waste New modelling shows tech could massively increase current volumes of electronic landfill by 2030
On-Prem Energy companies told to recharge for AI datacenter surge Demand for electricity to outstrip supply soon, warns Bain
AI + ML Eric Schmidt: Build more AI datacenters, we aren't going to 'hit climate goals anyway' Perhaps the power-draining tech is the solution after all, posits former Google CEO
On-Prem If you're excited by that $1.5B Michigan nuke plant revival, bear in mind it's definitely a fixer-upper Activists, ex-insider sound the alarm as operator says all is under control
Science NASA, IBM just open sourced an AI climate model so you can fine-tune your own Prithvi, Prithvi, Prithvi good
Science Nvidia's latest AI climate model takes aim at severe weather That tornado warning couldn't possibly be a hallucination... could it?
Science The secret to better weather forecasts may be a dash of AI Google adds machine learning to climate models for 'faster forecasts'
Science Legendary Glastonbury farm using bovine excreta power plant adds graphene boffinry This is not BS, it's cutting-edge material science
Science White House hopes $180M will solve science, tech gaps in commercial fusion power Researchers get 4 years, a small pot of cash, and long row to hoe before making tech practical by next decade
Science High-flying drones on a leash could blow traditional wind turbines away Bristol researcher granted £375K to improve airborne wind energy systems
Science Energy buffs give small modular reactors a gigantic reality check Too expensive, slow, and risky for investors, and they're taking focus off renewables, say IEEFA experts
On-Prem Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI Company will require certain suppliers to run on 100% carbon-free electricity ... by 2030
HPC Italy's climate super computer, Cassandra, to combine HPC with AI CPU-heavy big iron boasts Intel's HBM-packed Xeons and a tiny complement of Nvidia H100s
On-Prem Asia's hyperscalers hustle for juice as datacenters drain grid Power shortages are driving the industry to once-unthinkable places
Offbeat Tech industry sheds some light on the planet's situation via LinkedIn Kyndryl exec ponders 'fragility of the planet,' as Intel and Amazon offer advice
Bootnotes Crypto conferences liquidated after biblical flooding in Dubai There's something nice about seeing Web3 fanatics in ankle-deep water
Systems Digital Realty ditches diesel for salad dressing in US to cut datacenter emissions Hydrotreated vegetable oil to power bit barns stateside after successful Euro trial
AI + ML UK awards £1.73M to AI projects to advance net zero goals Great! Just ignore the energy needed to train them, process queries, keep the lights on in datacenters ...
Science Caffeine makes fuel cells more efficient, cuts cost of energy storage Boffins show less platinum may be needed for long-lived power source
AI + ML Google searches for boss to get grip on climate, energy costs of this AI hype cycle Hyperscalers increasingly looking over shoulders as workloads grow
Offbeat Climate change means beer made from sewer water, says North Carolina brewery Water? Like from the toilet?
Systems Water worries flood in as chip industry and AI models grow thirstier Mega makers already operate in water-scarce areas, and worry is they'll drink us dry
Systems With $1B to burn on green tech, HSBC seeks Google’s help The clock's ticking on those 2030 net zero climate goals
Off-Prem Think tank funded by Big Tech argues AI’s climate impact is nothing to worry about Sure, datacenters consume lots of energy. But maybe they'll invent stuff that helps
Public Sector US starts 'emergency' checks on cryptocurrency power use, citing winter power demands Up until now watchdogs say they've just been guesstimating consumption
Public Sector Affordable, self-healing power grids are closer than you think They're just an algorithm away, national lab engineer tells El Reg
Public Sector US cities are going to struggle to green up their act by 2050 Instead of 100% renewables, most will reach around a tenth of that
Offbeat Stripe commuters swap traffic jams for hydrofoil glam SF employees set sail on exclusive six-seater sea shuttle – the rest will have to stick to roads
On-Prem Deep Green gets £200M from power supplier to scale waste heat reuse Octopus Energy wants to back server-cooling, district heating projects
Science Road to Removal: A blueprint for yanking billions of tons of CO2 out of our atmosphere It'll also cost billions, but perhaps a price worth paying?
On-Prem Japan to test datacenter powered by reused hydrogen fuel cells The source? Repurposed parts from electric vehicles
Science Scientists mull Solar Radiation Management – a potential climate-change stop-gap As we argue over freeing ourselves from fossil fuels, can SRM buy us time to develop green energy we need?
Science Shame about those wildfires. We'll just let the fossil fuel giants off the hook, then? As world heads into 2024, scientists are asked: When will Big Oil face the heat?
Personal Tech Bitcoin's thirst for water is just as troubling as its energy appetite A single transaction chugs 6.2 million times more than a credit card swipe
Bootnotes Virgin Atlantic flies 'world's first fossil-fuel free' transatlantic commercial flight Sustainable kerosene-alt is hot right now as low-emission aviation takes off
Systems Intel chips away at carbon footprint but skims over thirst for water, chemicals Semiconductors are a dirty business
Science Now we can blame spacecraft for polluting the atmosphere 'My god, it's full of aerosolized metals!'
Science Want a clean energy transition? Better start putting cash into electrical grid Spending needs to double to $600B by 2030 if we want to stay within 2°C warming
Research British boffins say aircraft could fly on trash, cutting pollution debt by 80% Domestic jets can use 'municipal solid waste' to fly the friendly skies
Offbeat Swedish tech biz aims to sail past traffic woes on electric hydrofoils But P-12's production timeline is fuzzy
Legal You shouldn't be able to buy devices that tamper with diesel truck emissions on eBay, says DoJ Feds allege tat bazaar turned blind eye to folks buying more than 343k aftermarket defeat devices
Science The alternative to stopping climate change is untested carbon capture tech We could do most of what we need to prevent 1.5°C warming now; reversing it will be nigh impossible
Science Lithium goldrush hits sleepy Oregon-Nevada border Deposit in 19-million-year old caldera could dwarf sources in Bolivia, Chile and Australia
Science IBM sells off cloud business – yes, we mean Weather.com What better time for private equity to capitalize on changing climate
Science MIT boffins build battery alternative out of cement, carbon black, water Imagine your home's foundation was its own energy-storing supercapacitor
Offbeat Aspiration to deploy new UK nuclear reactor every year a 'wish', not a plan Notably stretching the target requires 'a credible pathway towards its delivery,' says committee
Systems Infineon to offer recyclable circuit boards that dissolve in water Phasing out epoxy resin laminate with biodegradable substrate might be costly, though
On-Prem Thames Water to datacenters: Cut water use or we will Utility to consider introducing restrictions
On-Prem Our AI habit is making us less environmentally friendly, Google admits Just 6% of the water it consumed last year was replenished, report says
Science Methane-spotting satellite that gives true readings of industry emissions hits skies in 2024 Potent greenhouse gas even worse for climate than too much carbon dioxide
HPC Fancy tinkering with the atmosphere? The Derecho supercomputer can advise NCAR's biggish iron will also explore wildfires, drought and solar storms
Offbeat Post-Brexit tariffs on cross EU-UK electrical vehicle imports still going ahead Commission official insists it has to protect itself against US subsidies
Science NASA to tear the wings off plane in the name of sustainability They'll be replaced with longer, thinner wings supported by a truss
On-Prem How do you boost server efficiency? Buy new kit, keep it busy Increase in efficiency between 2017 and 2019 hardware is 34% for Intel servers, 140% for AMD, claims report
Devops Atlassian says 'Don't #@!% the Planet' so it can keep making money Which when you think about it, is a pretty good reason to build a sustainable business
Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week Boeing takes flight in sustainability battle with carbon data cruncher Analytics to grok impact of competing greener tech as industry seeks environmentally friendly path
Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week TSMC brags of 20TWh solar scheme. Feels a bit like greenwashing to us A welcome development, but let's not overdo it
Personal Tech Motivated by commerce, not conscience, Google bans ads for climate change consensus contradictors
Science Bill Gates on climate change: Planting trees is not the answer, emissions need to be zeroed out to avoid disaster
Science Holy crappuccino. There's a latte trouble brewing... Bio-boffins reckon 60%+ of coffee species may be doomed
