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It looks easy enough: Ask ChatGPT something, and it responds. But pull back the curtain, and you’ll find that every ChatGPT prompt and Microsoft Copilot task consumes vast resources. Millions of human beings engineering, correcting and training models. Enough terawatt-hours of electricity to power countries. Data center megacampuses around the world. Power line networks and …
Chris Wright has championed fossil fuels as a moral good and characterized climate change as modest Standing shoulder to shoulder with his employees, Chris Wright, chief executive officer of oilfield services company Liberty Energy Inc., held up his glass in a toast. “To your health and the longer lives and healthier lives of billions of people …
PROFILE: Outspoken and Energy Realist CEO is Now Trump’s Oil Evangelist Read More »
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON, Dec 3 (Reuters) – Meta (META.O) said on Tuesday it is seeking proposals from nuclear power developers to help meet its artificial intelligence and environment goals, becoming the latest big tech company to take interest in atomic power amid an expected boom in electricity demand. The company wants to add 1 …
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By Liam Denning Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’s Lex column. Bloomberg News Having “Trump” and “nuclear” in the same sentence can induce anxiety (it once did in his nominee for secretary of state, …
The president-elect has said he’ll exit the Paris climate accord and ramp up oil and gas production. President-elect Donald Trump has been crystal clear: His second term will be an assault on climate policy. On the campaign trail, he vowed to “drill, baby, drill” for more oil and gas and inveighed against offshore wind farms. He attacked President Joe …
Data centers make it harder to retire fossil-fuel plants Demand also spiking from new factories and electric vehicles The boom in power demand from data centers and artificial intelligence creates a conflict between maintaining a reliable grid and cutting carbon emissions, according to the head of Dominion Energy Inc. “There’s a little bit of tension there …
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Win empowers him to attack climate policies he’s dubbed a scam Republican will also push policies to produce more oil and gas Donald Trump’s victory promises to shake up US energy and environmental policy, with sweeping implications for oil production, offshore wind development and electric vehicle sales. The win empowers him to deliver on his …
From Oil to EVs, Here’s What a Trump Victory Means for Energy Read More »
Harris and Trump have both touted the promise of lower energy bills while campaigning for president — but they’ve laid out starkly different visions for how to get them. The outcome of next week’s US presidential election is poised to have profound implications for a handful of multi-billion-dollar energy projects. Republican Donald Trump, who has …
As America Votes, These Big Energy Projects Hang in the Balance Read More »
WASHINGTON, Oct 30 (Reuters) – The Bill Gates’ funded reactor company TerraPower and ASP Isotopes said on Wednesday they have struck a deal to produce a new fuel, now only made in commercial amounts in Russia, for an expected next generation of nuclear power plants. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT Nuclear power gets support from both major U.S. …
Gates-Backed Reactor Company, ASP Isotopes Plan Plant to Make Nuclear Fuel Read More »
Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris have a couple of things in common on the issue of U.S. energy policy: both say they want to expand production and keep prices down for consumers. The core difference is that Harris says she wants to do so in a way that favors clean energy technologies crucial …
How do Trump and Harris Differ on Energy Policy? Read More »
