On a quiet patch of former farmland in northeastern Louisiana, a fleet of excavators has leveled more than 2,000 acres of reddish clay earth. This is rural Richland Parish, once a floodplain tangled with meandering bayous and wild canebrake where black bears still wander and a quarter of the 20,000 residents live below the poverty line. Enter Meta—the sixth-largest company …
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Assemblyman aims to overturn National Grid rate increases
ALBANY, N.Y. – National Grid utility rate increases approved by the state Public Service Commission are not sitting well with one member of the state Assembly who announced Friday the introduction of legislation that would enable the state Legislature to review and potentially overturn the price hikes. Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara says the Utility Rate Hike Legislative Review Act comes in …
Read More »AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over
“Everywhere we went, people treated energy availability as a given,” Rui Ma wrote on X after returning from a recent tour of China’s AI hubs. For American AI researchers, that’s almost unimaginable. In the U.S., surging AI demand is colliding with a fragile power grid, the kind of extreme bottleneck that Goldman Sachs warns could severely choke the industry’s growth. …
Read More »State approves National Grid rate hike that will increase many household bills by $600 a year
Syracuse, N.Y. — Your National Grid bill is going up about 10% next month and will keep rising. Within three years, the cost of electricity and gas will increase by about $600 a year for the average household in Upstate New York. The state Public Service Commission voted unanimously today to approve new electric and gas rates for National Grid’s …
Read More »SpaceX Reveals Humongous Grid Fins To Catch World’s Largest Rocket With The Launch Tower
This is not investment advice. The author has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. Wccftech.com has a disclosure and ethics policy. SpaceX has revealed the massive grid fins through which it will catch its future Starship Super Heavy rocket boosters. Starship is the world’s largest rocket under development and the only vehicle designed to be caught by the …
Read More »Big Tech’s A.I. Boom Is Reordering the U.S. Power Grid – The New York Times
Big Tech’s A.I. Boom Is Reordering the U.S. Power Grid The New York Times Bridging the Gap: How Smart Demand Management Can Forestall the AI Energy Crisis Goldman Sachs AI Data Centers Are Massive, Energy-Hungry and Headed Your Way CNET Avoiding a data center electricity price apocalypse slowboring.com Why AI demand for energy will continue to increase Brookings Source link
Read More »Hungarian Grand Prix 2025 F1 grid with one pitlane start
Charles Leclerc stunned the McLaren drivers to take a shock pole position for the 2025 Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix, beating Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris by less than a tenth of a second in Q3. Red Bull’s Max Verstappen recovered from a difficult run through practice to make the top 10 but could only qualify eighth, while Mercedes’ George …
Read More »Pa. electric bills to rise after grid manager ups payments to power plants
Electric bills in Pennsylvania could climb as much as 5% as rising rates paid to power plants trickle down the system. That’s according to PJM Interconnection, a regional body that ensures utilities have enough power to supply their customers during peak demand times, like a heat wave or cold snap. Each year, the organization holds an auction where the power …
Read More »UPDATE: Off The Grid, The Cyberpunk Battle Royale From District 9 Director Neill Blomkamp, Now Available On Steam
Update: Gunzilla Games has announced that Off The Grid is available now on Steam. Prior to today, we only knew the game was arriving on the biggest PC storefront soon, but the free-to-play battle royale title surprise-launched earlier today. That now brings the title’s platform list to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC via both Steam and the Epic …
Read More »Dive into cyberpunk action — Off The Grid hits Steam
This content was produced in collaboration with Valnet Inc. and the sponsor, Gunzilla Games. The free-to-play title has steadily gained popularity since that time, thanks to its fluid third-person, fast paced gameplay, vast array of looting possibilities, and consistent, thoughtfully crafted updates that keep the in-game experience fresh. Players are especially drawn to Off The Grid’s unique mechanic of switchable …
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