"New servers are less energy-intensive." Really? 🤔
This is said so often that it could almost be taken as an absolute truth.
By extension, it is often said that each new generation of hardware consumes less energy than the previous one.
Manufacturers communicate pretty often about this, including HPE (1), Nvidia (2), etc..
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Pakistanis are increasingly ditching the national grid in favour of solar power, prompting a boom in rooftop panels and spooking a government weighed down by billions of dollars of power sector debt. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/07/17/energy/pakistan-solar-national-grid/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #energy #pakistan #solar #renewables #energy
"...and our electricity here comes from a renewable source ... nuclear ..."
Let me just stop you there. You don't need an Oxford degree to know Nuclear might be low carbon (construction depending) but it aint and can't physically be renewable.
Unless those clever boffins have figured out how to break entropy and rejoin U235 atoms.
https://youtu.be/SS6S1i_GLfw time code 7:28
Discussions among political parties in Japan, which heavily relies on importing fossil fuels, on securing a stable energy supply have been slow in the lead-up to Sunday's election for the Upper House despite the risks. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/15/japan/politics/energy-security-election/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #dpp #2025upperhouseelection #straitofhormuz #ldp #cdp #iran #nuclearenergy #energy #jcp
A new coating that cools solar panels by absorbing moisture during the night and releasing it during the day results in greater power output and lifespan.
Summary: https://scitechdaily.com/new-material-supercharges-solar-panel-power-lifespan/
Original paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0927796X25000932
‘Burning Up the Biosphere'
Use of wood chips for energy generation - in large volumes
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https://environmentalpaper.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/threat-map-2024-1.pdf
#LoggingIndustry#LoggingImpacts#WoodChips #biodiversity #ecosystems #conservation #forests #energy#ClimateBreakdown
Solarpower has won, not because it is alternative or woke, but because of economy. And it will keep winning with still improving panels, becoming thinner and easy to use everywhere, battery technology is also still improving.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/46-billion-years-on-the-sun-is-having-a-moment
#solarpower #renewables #energy #geopolitics @geopolitics
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Trading volume in Japan’s power futures is set to climb as companies prepare for the upcoming expiration of a key agreement between the nation’s largest utilities, a shift expected to jolt the market. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/10/companies/power-trading/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #tepco#jera #energy
ENG: scroll down to The New Yorker article on renewable energies reshaping the world, whether autocrats like it or not.
ESP: "El año pasado, el noventa y seis por ciento de la demanda mundial de nueva electricidad se cubrió con energías renovables, y en Estados Unidos el noventa y tres por ciento de la nueva capacidad de generación procedió de la energía solar, eólica y de una variedad cada vez mayor de baterías para almacenar esa energía.
En marzo, por primera vez, los combustibles fósiles generaron menos de la mitad de la electricidad en Estados Unidos. En California, en un momento dado, el 25 de mayo, las energías renovables produjeron la cifra récord del ciento cincuenta y ocho por ciento de la demanda eléctrica del estado. A lo largo de todo el día, produjeron el ochenta y dos por ciento de la electricidad de California, que esta primavera superó a Japón y se convirtió en la cuarta economía del mundo. (... muchos más ejemplos en el artículo )
Esto sugiere que existe la posibilidad de una profunda reordenación de los sistemas de poder de la tierra, en todos los sentidos de la palabra "poder", ofreciendo un freno plausible no sólo a la crisis climática sino también a la autocracia. En lugar de depender de depósitos dispersos de combustibles fósiles -cuyo control ha definido en gran medida la geopolítica durante más de un siglo-, estamos avanzando rápidamente hacia una dependencia de fuentes de suministro difusas pero ubicuas."
Interesante, no solo lo dicho, sino que sea El New Yorker quien lo diga...
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It's odd to me that people talk about data centers in terms of megawatts, a measure of electric power. For one example among many, a Bloomberg article from March about Microsoft cancelling data center plans began:
Microsoft Corp. has walked away from new data center projects in the US and Europe that would have amounted to a capacity of about 2 gigawatts of electricity, according to TD Cowen analysts, who attributed the pullback to an oversupply of the clusters of computers that power artificial intelligence."Data center projects that...amounted to a capacity of about 2 gigawatts of electricity" is a nonsensical statement. The (technical) capacities of a data center have to do with storage, compute, transmission, and latency. I understand there's probably some Fermi calculation along the lines of converting electric power to compute capacity using the TDP of NVIDIA's latest GPUs or something like that. Nevertheless, it's misleading to speak this way, not to mention lazy. It is oversimplifying in a bad way, treating data centers as utilities that supply a commodity when that is just not the case (at least not with AI, where prices for services still fluctuate fairly wildly).
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