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Arizona’s largest battery will help feed your Google habit

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Photo: Salt River Project Arizona’s largest battery storage system is now online and, along with solar and wind, will help power a new Google data center – here’s why that matters. The $600 million solar + battery storage project sits on 3,000 acres south of Buckeye. million in tax revenue over 35 years.

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We Need to Decarbonize Software

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These all factor into the energy used for data transfer, loading, and processing, consuming a lot of power on users’ devices. Companies like Salesforce have launched their own software sustainability initiatives , while the Green Software Foundation now comprises 64 member organizations, including tech giants Google , Intel , and Microsoft.

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Renault Rafale midsize SUV to have as much as 300 hp, four wheel drive

Baua Electric

The Rafale’s drivetrain options probably the most {powerful} model of Renault’s E-Tech hybrid device. Debuting at the Rafale is an all-wheel-drive 300 hp model – the most-powerful E-Tech hybrid providing — which provides some other motor to the rear axle. The bottom front-wheel force style produces 200 hp from a 1.2

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Road Test: 2021 Polestar 2

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A High-Tech Customer Experience. By taking what could be “Volvo’s EV model” and breaking it out as a standalone brand, Volvo and Geely are promoting exclusivity while creating a high-tech customer experience. Plentiful Power. High-Tech Infotainment. Google in the car. From my experience, it’s working.

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Schiff Amendment would provide resources to restart Plutonium-238 production for RTGs

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NASA: Expanding Frontiers with Radioisotope Power Systems. Google Tech Talk: Save the Uranium-233 to Save Solar System Exploration (January 2011). For the last 50 years, DOE has created RTGs for NASA and the Department of Defense (DOD). DOE: RTG—History and New Horizons.

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Bloom Energy Debuts SOFC Fuel Cell System for Distributed Generation

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Bloom Energy Corporation staged a high-profile event announcing the availability of the Bloom Energy Server, a patented solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology for distributed power generation. For more power, customers deploy multiple Energy Servers side by side. The event was hosted at eBay Inc., Diagram of a solid oxide fuel cell.

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The Top 10 Semiconductor Stories of 2023

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In 2022, a schism in the chip design world and at Google erupted into the open. At issue was a reinforcement-learning AI system that Google uses to do a key step in laying out chunks of logic and memory for its AI accelerator chips, or TPUs. Basically, less power is lost if the interconnects carrying it are short and wide.

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