Source New Mexico: Report says national push for AI data centers leading to outsized energy, water consumption. “The report finds that one hyperscale data center can use as much energy as 2 million U.S. households and warns that by 2028, data centers across the nation could collectively use as much water as 18.5 million households.”

The Register: 50 GW of datacenter demand queues up for UK grid access . “About 140 datacenters are in the queue to be connected to Britain’s power grid, and their combined energy requirements are estimated to be more than the current peak electricity use for the entire country.”

The Register: Oak Ridge spawns institute to curb AI datacenter power surge. “The US federal research center in Tennessee is launching the Next Generation Data Centers Institute (NGDCI) in support of national energy and AI priorities, though any lessons learned will likely apply globally as well.”

Reuters: Louisiana utility regulator denies request for probe of Meta data center deal, law group says. “Earthjustice ‌filed a motion last month with the Louisiana Public Service Commission asking it to probe project financing, which the group said could ultimately shift project costs unfairly onto ‌utility ​customers. The motion centered on ⁠Meta’s proposed data center ⁠project in […]

University of Michigan: AI energy use: New tools show which model consumes the most power, and why. “AI users and developers can now measure the amount of electricity various AI models consume to complete tasks with open-source software and an online leaderboard developed at the University of Michigan.”

Washington Post: Silicon Valley is building a shadow power grid for data centers across the US . This link is a syndicated MSN version and has no paywall. “After the rapid growth of data centers triggered pushback from politicians, utilities and local residents over the pressures they place on the grid, tech companies are now building their own fleet of private power plants, mostly fueled by […]

NC Newsline: Data centers threaten energy affordability, NC task force says. “Data centers account for about 80% of Duke Energy’s projected energy demand, according to a report from Gov. Josh Stein’s North Carolina Energy Policy Task Force. The report found that data centers have ‘uniquely high energy needs’ compared to traditional users like manufacturing, chemicals, life sciences, food […]

I have been working on taking the energy data that my #SmartMeter sends to #BrightEnergy and to show a nice web page of the results.

Still very much a work in process, but I am happy enough with it for now.

#ScottishPower #HomeDashboard #Energy #EnergyUsage #Dash #SMET2

Capital B News: A Rural S.C. County Quietly Approved a $2B Data Center During the Winter Storm. “As a rare winter storm bore down on South Carolina, bringing conditions that historically paralyze the state for days, local officials in a rural county quietly pushed through a massive $2.4 billion data center without most residents knowing it was even on the table.”