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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. That growth is equivalent to adding an extra country’s worth of electricity demand; Sweden under a more modest scenario or Germany at the most.

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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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Ontario aiming for uniform EV charging permitting

Smart Energy International

The Ultra-Low Overnight price plan , which allows customers who use more electricity at night, including those charging their EV, to save up to $90 per year by shifting demand to the ultra-low overnight rate period when provincewide electricity demand is lower.

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ComEd to lead impact study of climate change on the grid

Smart Energy International

Changing climatic patterns are expected to bring operational challenges, while electrification for decarbonisation will result in more reliance on the grid as electricity demand increases in sectors such as transport and industry. Have you read?

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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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Could Flex Services Draw New Players to Energy Sector?

GreenTechMedia

The mobile giant and the energy blockchain leader last month announced a partnership to use subscriber identification module (SIM) technology as a means to identify distributed electricity system assets on the grid. According to a future energy scenarios paper published by National Grid last July, for the U.K. In the U.K.,

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Rethinking the energy grid: The evolution of mission-critical power

Smart Energy International

However, digitalization is undeniably a key strategic lever to economic growth that organizations and governments cannot afford to ignore – leading governments of the aforementioned cities to review such policies in view of strong demand and growth potential for data center services and e-commerce services. Have you read? $38

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