Articles by Tim De Chant
SpaceX said this week that it will build natural gas power plants to supply electricity to the Terafab semiconductor factory it plans to build in Texas, according to a report from Bloomberg.Β
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Few automotive companies are as dependent on breakout hits as Ford. Its almost as though its baked into the companys DNA: From the Model T and the Taurus to the F-150 and the Explorer, Ford has lurchοΏ½...
SpaceX said on Thursday that it will remove the unpermitted turbines powering its xAI data centers near Memphis as it transitions to a permanent, 1.2 gigawatt natural gas power plant.Β
The turbines ...
The largest electrical grid in the U.S. has struggled to cope with an onslaught of data centers. Now, after an auction to add more generating capacity fell short, the grids operator, PJM InterconnectοΏ½...
A power line went down outside of Washington, DC, this week. Normally, the grid would only need a few seconds to recover from such an event. But this one took more than 10 minutes because more than 3οΏ½...
OpenAI announced Wednesday that it will spend $750 billion on infrastructure through 2030, some 25% more than it estimated earlier this year, The Wall Street Journal reported. The renewed blitz comesοΏ½...
General Fusion began trading on the Nasdaq today under the ticker GFUZ, becoming the first publicly listed fusion power company, beating competitor and Trump-backed TAE Technologies by several monthsοΏ½...
Itβs no secret that AI is a hog, consuming energy and water like no digital technology before it. Now we know just how much Big Techβs pursuit of AI is costing the environment.
Both Google and Am...
Over the last several years, fusion power has gone from the butt of jokes always a decade away! to an increasingly tangible and tantalizing technology that has drawn investors off the sidelines.
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Elon Musks xAI is running nearly 50 natural gas turbines at its Mississippi data center, power plants that the state is currently not regulating thanks to a loophole.
The power plants are consideredοΏ½...
