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AI certainly isn't the only sector to use tons of water, but it's wasting it in a way that's especially disruptive to fresh water supplies.

Eco Death

Wow, that's *bad.*

AI's Outrageous Environmental Toll Is Probably Worse Than You Think

AI's demand on the US power grid is resulting in changing phase-out deadlines for American coal companies.

Two Asthmatic Steps Back

"We need more energy, not less."

Huge Power Demand for AI Is Keeping Polluting Coal Plants Alive

A plan to store nuclear waste in America's busiest oil field is a fascinating collision between fossil fuels and nuclear.

Nimbyfication

Not in my backyard!

Please Don't Store Nuclear Waste in Our Precious Oil Field, Says Fossil Fuel Industry

These data centers are even more power hungry than traditional ones, and as every tech company pivots to AI, the energy demand steepens.

Power Problems

"We still don't appreciate the energy needs of this technology."

Coal Plants Staying Online Because AI Needs So Much Power

A Chinese tech company claims its miniature nuclear battery is fully capable of working for up to 50 years.

Power Play

It works by harnessing energy from nuclear decay.

Startup Says Its Coin-Sized Nuclear Battery Could Fly Drones "Continuously"

A Pennsylvania crypto company wants to burn tires to fuel Bitcoin mining — and community members are seeing red. 

Rubber Band Man

"I can’t even believe that people would be allowed to burn tires."

Community Horrified by Plan to Burn Tires to Produce Bitcoin

Climate activist Ia Anstoot is gunning to challenge Greenpeace's court case against the EU classifying nuclear power as a green investment.

Get With the Times

"Greenpeace is stuck in the past fighting clean, carbon-free nuclear energy while the world is literally burning."

Teen Activist Lectures Greenpeace to Stop Railing Against Nuclear Power

German startup Proxima Fusion recently grabbed millions to build a reactor that looks like a twisty French cruller doughnut.

Stellar Startup

If money talks, nuclear fusion is suddenly starting to get a lot of funding.

Nuclear Fusion Startup Gets Funding for Twisty-Looking Reactor

Dozens of France's nuclear reactors remain offline following a series of troubling outages believed to be caused by stress-induced pipe corrosion.

That's Not Good

And the timing couldn't be worse.

France Discovers Ominous Cracks in Dozens of Nuclear Reactors

The Guardian reports that the BBC has already secretly prepared scripts to read on air in the event of energy shortages causing blackouts or empty gas reserves — a telling sign that between the war in Ukraine, growing energy uncertainty, and a fast-approaching winter, UK authorities are bracing for the absolute worst.

Always be Prepared

The BBC is preparing scripts in case there's a "major loss of power."

UK Authorities Anticipate Energy Blackouts This Winter

Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia is planning "The Mirror Line." The skyscraper would be the world's largest structure and house millions.

Mirror Line

It'd be the largest structure in the entire world.

Saudi Arabia Planning Skyscraper That's 75 Miles Wide

Shelling and fighting near Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Europe's largest nuclear plant, are making locals increasingly nervous about Russia.

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