Energy

Sustainability 7 min Google Bought 396 Megawatts of Geothermal That Arrives in 2028 Cape Station in Utah comes online in 2028, with an option on 600 more megawatts through June 2030. Geothermal... NA Nadia Rahim 3 Sep Sustainability 7 min Eight Data-Centre Turbines, 2.5 Million People and US$53m to US$99m a Year Data centres are installing on-site gas turbines to bypass multi-year grid connection queues. That makes the e... NA Nadia Rahim 1 Sep Science 6 min SpaceX Is Casting Turbine Blades Because Almost Nobody Else Can A gas turbine is mostly components any industrial economy can build. One part is not, and the queue for it has... NA Nadia Rahim 30 Aug Cloud & Infra 7 min A Startup Worth $1.05bn Wants Data Centres to Turn Themselves Down Emerald AI raised US$150m to slow, pause or move compute when a utility needs demand cut, backed by Nvidia and... KE Kenji Tanaka 30 Aug ASEAN Tech 8 min Malaysia's 6GW Data Centre Pipeline Is Announcements, Not Connections Malaysia leads a regional pipeline of more than 6GW. Its own utility reports 8.3GW of pipeline, 3.8GW under co... SA Sarah Chew 29 Aug Cloud & Infra 7 min Australia Agreed to Write Data Centre Rules, Not to Mandate Renewables National Cabinet committed to mandatory energy, water and land-use standards by early 2027. Queensland and the... KE Kenji Tanaka 29 Aug Sustainability 8 min Tesla Installed About 3,000 Solar Roofs In Seven Years, And Has Now Stopped At its peak the company was completing 21 to 32 installations a week, more than 95 per cent short of the origi... NA Nadia Rahim 23 Aug Finance 8 min Data Centre Capex Will Pass A Trillion Dollars This Year Dell'Oro puts global data centre capital expenditure above US$1tn in 2026. The five largest hyperscalers accou... DA Daniel Koh 22 Aug ASEAN Tech 8 min The Philippines' AI Hub Would Need 16 Per Cent Of Luzon's Grid Pax Silica at New Clark City is projected to require 3 gigawatts of electricity and 130 million litres of wate... SA Sarah Chew 22 Aug Sustainability 8 min Singapore Will Import 900MW Of Solar From The Johor It Competes With For Power Two conditional approvals cover 300MW to Sembcorp and 600MW to a Ditrolic subsidiary, from solar and storage i... NA Nadia Rahim 22 Aug Science 6 min Why the Voltage-Drop Limit Is Really an Efficiency Limit The voltage-drop limit in every wiring code reads as a performance rule. The current cancels, so the share of... NA Nadia Rahim 14 Aug Sustainability 6 min What Does "Plant a Tree to Offset It" Actually Buy? Carbon calculators end by translating your emissions into trees, and the unit that translation produces is the... NA Nadia Rahim 13 Aug Sustainability 5 min Flying Against Driving, and the Units Nobody Checks Both confident answers to this question are built on comparing a per-passenger figure with a per-vehicle one.... NA Nadia Rahim 13 Aug Sustainability 7 min The Pentagon Has Committed More to This Battery Company Than Every Investor Combined A conditional commitment of up to $1.4 billion from the Office of Strategic Capital roughly matches everything... NA Nadia Rahim 11 Aug Cybersecurity 8 min Poland's Power Plants Were Reached Through the Mobile Network Nobody Watches CERT Polska has documented the first real-world use of a private APN as a route into operational technology. T... CY Cyber Team 11 Aug Sustainability 8 min Singapore Cannot Say How Long Finished Solar Panels Wait for the Grid. Nobody Records It Asked for the average time between a completed solar installation and grid connection, MTI said the data does... NA Nadia Rahim 8 Aug Sustainability 8 min Malaysia Says Data Centres Will Take 31% of Its Electricity by 2035 A written parliamentary reply puts data-centre electricity use at 31 per cent of national consumption by 2035,... NA Nadia Rahim 5 Aug ASEAN Tech 8 min Thailand Now Makes Data Centres Prove the Power Exists Before Approving Them Since 30 March, a data-centre developer seeking Thai investment privileges must file a letter from the energy... SA Sarah Chew 3 Aug Sustainability 11 min Solar Payback on a Tropical Roof Malaysia gets more sun than Singapore, and our own calculator duly reported that a Malaysian roof paid for its... DA Daniel Koh 29 Jul Home & Living 15 min House Calculations for a Tropical Climate Ask this site how much air-conditioning a Petaling Jaya bedroom needs and, until this week, you got two differ... AM Amelia Wong 29 Jul Cloud & Infra 8 min Who Pays for the Grid: The US Push to Make Data Centres Cover Their Own Power US regulators and a voluntary federal pledge are shifting data-centre grid costs onto operators rather than ho... KE Kenji Tanaka 19 Jun