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Water Data Could Speed Abandoned Mine Cleanup
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (146+ words) New research shows water quality data can help identify high-risk abandoned mine sites, improving how agencies prioritize cleanup efforts....
Fleet Decarbonization Gets a Real-World Road Test
1+ week, 1+ day ago (140+ words) Scope 3 Emissions Are Erasing Facility-Level Efficiency Progress Fleet Decarbonization Gets a Real-World Road Test Bio MADE Backs Bioindustrial Scale-Up and Supply Chain Growth Kevin O'Leary Data Center Approved in Box Elder, Utah New Mexico Water Dashboard Tracks 50-Year Plan Extreme…...
Kevin O'Leary Data Center Approved in Box Elder, Utah
1+ week, 2+ day ago (240+ words) A 40, 000-acre hyperscale data center and power generation campus cleared its first regulatory hurdle in northern Utah this week. The developer's commitments on water, grid independence, and environmental impact are specific enough to evaluate. So are the questions that remain…...
AI Energy Demand Is Breaking Corporate Efficiency Programs
1+ week, 3+ day ago (525+ words) Organizations scaling AI capabilities internally are adding energy load at rates no efficiency retrofit program was designed to absorb." The result is a gap that is widening, not closing. The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimated in its 2025 Electricity Report that…...
AI Teams Are Learning Megawatts Don't Follow Capital
2+ week, 17+ hour ago (422+ words) The AI infrastructure build-out is the fastest large-scale capital deployment in technology history. It is running into a constraint that hasn't historically mattered much in tech: the grid cannot deliver megawatts at the pace capital wants to move. The technology…...
Energy Demand Is Growing Faster Than Systems Can Absorb
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (338+ words) When expected generation fails to materialize during periods of rapid demand growth, costs and reliability degrade quickly " and the effects cascade across wholesale and retail markets....
Global Coalition Targets Green AI Data Center Standards
3+ week, 1+ day ago (651+ words) A new global coalition is attempting to answer a question that has quietly become one of the most important in digital infrastructure: what qualifies as a "green" data center? On April 22, a group of leading building, finance, and sustainability organizations…...
Autonomous Maritime Systems Gain New AI Capabilities
6+ mon, 2+ day ago (506+ words) The unmanned surface vehicles (USV) market specifically is estimated at $0. 82 billion in 2025, expected to reach $1. 59 billion by 2030 (CAGR ~14. 1%)." While the global unmanned systems market (all domains: air, ground, surface, underwater) is valued at about $28 billion and projected to reach $43 billion…...
AI Model Rethinks Renewable Energy Growth Forecasts
3+ week, 2+ day ago (552+ words) Research from Chalmers University of Technology introduces an alternative approach. Using machine learning and historical data across more than 200 countries, the model captures how clean energy expansion tends to unfold in uneven cycles. Growth often progresses gradually before accelerating in…...
Brain Box AI Trane Technologies AI Lab Wins 2026 E+E Leader Judges' Choice Award for AI Control
3+ week, 2+ day ago (291+ words) AI Control is Brain Box AI Trane Technologies AI Lab's flagship autonomous HVAC optimization platform. First recognized as a TIME Best Invention in 2020, AI Control has since become the industry benchmark for intelligent, sustainable building operations. By replacing static, reactive…...