Energy

Sustainability 4 min Data Centres Hold a Third of the Dutch Grid Queue, Enough Capacity for 15 Million Homes Grid operators want the government to decide where data centres may go. The industry says early, oversized req... NA Nadia Rahim 17 Oct ASEAN Tech 6 min Ho Chi Minh City Utility Warns Data Centres It May Cut Power in Tariff Dispute The dispute is over which electricity rate applies, and 11.35 billion dong is owed. The same week, a US-funded... SA Sarah Chew 27 Sep ASEAN Tech 5 min Data Centres Took 4% of Peninsular Malaysia's Power; Moody's Sees 31% by 2035 Meeting that needs 14 to 17 gigawatts of new capacity at up to RM95 billion, while 13 gigawatts of existing pl... SA Sarah Chew 18 Sep Business 8 min The Philippines Plans 1.5 Gigawatts by 2033. It Has 50 Megawatts Now. A $34.4 billion masterplan, 61 per cent of it from private investors who have not committed. Next door, Laos a... DA Daniel Koh 12 Sep Home & Living 6 min Your air conditioner's seasonal rating is mostly extrapolation The CSPF on labels across Southeast Asia is computed against a reference season defined in ISO 16358-1, where... AM Amelia Wong 12 Sep Home & Living 6 min Four different electricity prices are printed on appliance labels in one shop US regulations fix a refrigerator's running cost at 14 cents a kilowatt-hour, an air conditioner's at 13, a ce... AM Amelia Wong 9 Sep 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 31 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 30 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