The Guardian | Google to tap into gas plant for AI datacenter in sharp turn from climate goals by Dara Kerr

Texas power plant would emit 4.5m tons of carbon dioxide per year, more than that of the entire city of San Francisco

Google has struck a partnership for a natural gas power plant that could provide energy for one of its datacenters in Texas, unearthed by new research and confirmed by the company. The move is part of an ongoing about-face for the tech giant, which once pledged to be carbon neutral by 2030 and has long been seen as a pioneer in clean energy.

The gas power plant is slated to be built in Armstrong county, a sparsely populated area in the Texas panhandle. According to a report by the research organization Cleanview, the project is being led by Crusoe Energy, which partnered with Google to develop the datacenter campus known as “Goodnight”, named after a nearby town.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/02/google-ai-datacenter

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Report Shows Earth’s Climate is Out of Balance, as Indicators Hit New Extremes

The world is in a state of climate emergency, the head of the United Nations declared Sunday, following…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/449019/

State of the Global Climate 2025

#WMO’s State of the Global #Climate report 2025 confirms that 2015-2025 are the hottest 11-years on record, and that 2025 was the second or third hottest year on record, at about 1.43 °C above the 1850-1900 average. Extreme events around the world, including intense #heat, heavy #rainfall and tropical #cyclones, caused disruption and devastation and highlighted the vulnerability of our inter-connected economies and societies. The ocean continues to warm and absorb #CarbonDioxide. It has been absorbing the equivalent of about eighteen times the annual human energy use each year for the past two decades. Annual sea ice extent in the #Arctic was at or near a record low, #Antarctic sea ice extent was the third lowest on record, and glacier melt continued unabated, according to the report. For the first time, the report includes the Earth’s energy imbalance as one of the key climate indicators.

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WMO State of Climate report confirms 2015-2025 hottest 11 years on record

Earth’s energy imbalance is highest in sixty five-year record

The ocean has been absorbing about eighteen times the annual human energy use each year for the past two decades

#ExtremeWeather impacts millions and costs billions

Report: https://library.wmo.int/idurl/4/69807

https://wmo.int/publication-series/state-of-global-climate/state-of-global-climate-2025

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Significant Mission Milestones in OSIRIS-REx Journey to Bennu and Back ✨

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⏩ 7 new pictures and 8 new videos from NASA (SVS) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=85&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20260121201514

The Conversation: How sewage treatment plants could handle food waste, sparing landfills and the climate . “When we compared greenhouse gas emissions for the same food waste composition, we found that sending food to a landfill would emit 58.2 kilograms (129 pounds) of carbon dioxide equivalent per ton of food waste. In comparison, we looked at a conventional wastewater treatment plant, the […]