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AI and crypto mining are driving up data centers’ energy use

The Verge: Energy

The world will need a lot more renewable energy to clean up pollution from power grids and satiate skyrocketing electricity demand from data centers at the same time. Crypto mining alone is estimated to account for nearly a quarter of that electricity consumption, burning through 110TWh in 2022.

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Bitcoin miners win legal battle to keep mum about energy use

The Verge: Energy

More Bitcoin is mined in the US than anywhere else in the world , a trend that has sparked legal battles over the impact energy-hungry crypto mines have on the power grid, nearby communities, and the environment. Industry groups were quick to challenge the move in court.

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Can Renewables Restart the Grid? The UK Investigates

GreenTechMedia

” Distributed ReStart was launched in January 2019 and is set to run to March 2022, with £10.3 National Grid is carrying out the project in partnership with the Iberdrola-owned electricity distributor SP Energy Networks and TNEI, an independent energy consultancy. million ($13.5 million) in backing from the U.K.’s

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Technology Trending: REC transactions and energy consumption matching

Smart Energy International

Such 24/7 hourly matching yields multiple benefits from increasing corporate sustainability claims’ transparency, thanks to more granular carbon accounting, to incentivising investments in renewables and storage technologies, to decarbonising and digitalising the power grid, states the study.

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Online Event - VERGE Energy Conference

Green Market Oracle

The State of Vehicle-Grid Integration (Panel Discussion): The vehicle-to-grid market is finally about to kick off in earnest. California is in the process of setting important policy targets that will help stimulate the positive benefits of using electric vehicles for the power grid. How will this market unfold?