Topic
Energy Efficiency
A collection of 20 issues
Forget the Asteroid in 2032 — Worry About the Here and Now
I am not among the people concerned about an asteroid, charmingly named 2024 YR4, that is reportedly hurtling through space on a collision course for Earth. Astronomers and physicists estimate that the space rock, which measures from 130 to 300 feet (a wide variance), has about a 1.5% probability
And Now for A Very Different Take on the DeepSeek Cause Célèbre
A media storm raged in the wake of news that China’s DeepSeek open-source AI models were capable of equaling or surpassing the performance of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which is decidedly not open source.
In the past few days, arguably too much has been written and said about the emergence
And Now The News: Stuff that Perhaps Only I Care About
New Report Corroborates Surging Energy Consumption in AI Datacenters
Living on the Nuclear Edge – Don't Worry, Not That One
One of the certainties of life is that neither good times nor bad times last indefinitely. Another certainty is that companies, as well as individuals, will experience ups and downs.
Dealing with good times isn’t a problem. Regardless of whether you’re steering a ship or whether you’re
Reviewing Beneficiaries of GenAI Datacenter and Infrastructure Spending
Tech Reaches the Geopolitical Summit: The Rise of Datacenter Diplomacy
There’s an article in – of all places – Foreign Policy that I recommend you read.
I recommend that you read the article not because I wholeheartedly agree completely with everything it says – the piece raises perhaps as many questions as it answers – but because I think it provides valuable insight
LNG Oversupply? With Tech’s Ascension, There’s No Such Thing as Enough Energy
A few years ago, if you flew across North America on a clear day, preferably in an aircraft, you would sometimes see natural gas flares burning below you at ground level. Natural gas often is found in proximity to oil, so while the oil was extracted and transported for processing