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Meta is sinking $10 billion into Louisiana to build its wildest AI aspirations, setting the template for the grid buildout

Meta is sinking  billion into Louisiana to build its wildest AI aspirations, setting the template for the grid buildout

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

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 …

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AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over

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. …

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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

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Hungarian Grand Prix 2025 F1 grid with one pitlane start

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 …

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Pa. electric bills to rise after grid manager ups payments to power plants

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 …

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UPDATE: Off The Grid, The Cyberpunk Battle Royale From District 9 Director Neill Blomkamp, Now Available On Steam

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 …

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Dive into cyberpunk action — Off The Grid hits Steam

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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