Étiquette : energy (Page 1 of 3)

La Chine se couvre de champs de panneaux solaires d’un gigantisme inédit

17 novembre 2025 / noflux

“Au milieu de l’année 2025, la Chine a atteint 1 100 GW de capacité solaire installée. Bien loin derrière, l’Union européenne en était à 338 GW à la fin de 2024. La Chine, championne des énergies renouvelables… et accro au charbon L’accélération a été particulièrement marquée au cours du premier semestre : la Chine a posé 212 GW de panneaux solaires, soit plus que les 178 GW que compte au total le territoire des Etats-Unis.”

Source : La Chine se couvre de champs de panneaux solaires d’un gigantisme inédit

A Dormant Nuclear Plant in Iowa Is Poised to Power Google’s Energy Needs

28 octobre 2025 / noflux

Aerial view of the Cedar River and the Duane Arnold Energy Center near Palo, Iowa.

“A nuclear plant in Iowa—currently out of action—is set to help Google reap reliable, low-carbon energy to feed power-intensive artificial intelligence.
Google said Monday it is partnering with NextEra Energy to reopen the Duane Arnold Energy Center, a nuclear plant that closed five years ago after damage from a windstorm. The plan is to get the plant, which would provide over 600 megawatts of nuclear energy for the regional grid, up and running in early 2029 pending regulatory approval. The Central Iowa Power Cooperative will buy the plant’s energy output that isn’t used by Google.
The move follows a push by the tech industry to galvanize nuclear energy in the U.S., including a deal between Constellation Energy and Microsoft to restart Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island, the site of the worst nuclear power disaster in the country. And Meta signed a deal this summer with Constellation to secure power from the Clinton Clean Energy Center, an already-operating nuclear plant in Illinois.”

Source : A Dormant Nuclear Plant in Iowa Is Poised to Power Google’s Energy Needs – WSJ

Bringing AI to the next generation of fusion energy

19 octobre 2025 / noflux

“Alongside our research, Google has invested in CFS, supporting their work on promising scientific and engineering breakthroughs, and moving their technology toward commercialization. Looking ahead, our vision extends beyond optimizing SPARC operations. We’re building the foundations for AI to become an intelligent, adaptive system at the very heart of future fusion power plants. This is just the beginning of our journey together, and we hope to share more details about our collaboration as we reach new milestones. By uniting the revolutionary potential of AI and fusion, we’re building a cleaner and more sustainable energy future.”

Source : Bringing AI to the next generation of fusion energy – Google DeepMind

CO2 Inference – a Hugging Face Space by sasha

4 décembre 2023 / noflux

We ran a series of experiments to measure the energy efficiency and carbon emissions of different models from the HuggingFace Hub, and to see how different tasks and models compare. We found that multi-purpose, generative models are orders of magnitude more energy-intensive than task-specific systems for a variety of tasks, even for models with a similar number of parameters

Source : CO2 Inference – a Hugging Face Space by sasha

Millions of new materials discovered with deep learning – Google DeepMind

30 novembre 2023 / noflux

“To build a more sustainable future, we need new materials. GNoME has discovered 380,000 stable crystals that hold the potential to develop greener technologies – from better batteries for electric cars, to superconductors for more efficient computing.Our research – and that of collaborators at the Berkeley Lab, Google Research, and teams around the world — shows the potential to use AI to guide materials discovery, experimentation, and synthesis. We hope that GNoME together with other AI tools can help revolutionize materials discovery today and shape the future of the field.”

Source : Millions of new materials discovered with deep learning – Google DeepMind

Tous les sites d’Apple sont à présent alimentés à 100% par de l’énergie renouvelable – Apple (2018)

30 avril 2023 / noflux

“Dans le cadre de son engagement pour lutter contre le changement climatique et créer un environnement plus sain, Apple a annoncé aujourd’hui que tous ses sites à travers le monde sont désormais alimentés à 100 % par de l’énergie propre. Cet exploit porte sur les magasins, les bureaux, les centres de données, ainsi que les sites en colocation dans 43 pays, y compris les États-Unis, le Royaume-Uni, la Chine et l’Inde. L’entreprise a également annoncé que neuf partenaires de la chaîne de production se sont engagés à alimenter toute leur production pour Apple avec de l’énergie propre, ce qui porte à 23 le nombre total de fournisseurs engagés dans cette démarche. ”

Source : Tous les sites d’Apple sont à présent alimentés à 100% par de l’énergie renouvelable – Apple (FR)

Microsoft announces intent to build a new datacenter region in Finland, accelerating sustainable digital transformation and enabling large scale carbon-free district heating

27 mars 2022 / noflux

“Microsoft today announced it intends to build a new datacenter region in Southern Finland. To support customer needs for high availability and resilience, the new datacenter region will feature Azure Availability Zones, unique physical locations equipped with independent power, networking, and cooling for additional tolerance to datacenter failures. It will join Microsoft’s worldwide network of cloud computing infrastructure of more than 60 regions, over 280,000 kilometers of terrestrial and subsea fiber, and over 190 edge sites.”

Source : Microsoft announces intent to build a new datacenter region in Finland, accelerating sustainable digital transformation and enabling large scale carbon-free district heating – Microsoft News Centre Europe

Interdire le minage de bitcoin dans l’UE : les autorités suédoises appellent à des mesures drastiques

25 novembre 2021 / noflux

“La vague crypto a touché la Suède et cela inquiète fort les instances du pays. Depuis que la Chine a mis un coup d’arrêt au minage de cryptomonnaies sur son sol, la géographie du secteur a été complètement redessinée. Des pays comme les États-Unis et le Kazakhstan ont attiré nombre de sociétés crypto contraintes de délocaliser à la hâte leurs sites de minage. Mais la Suède, qui a pour elle une belle production d’énergie renouvelable, a également tapé dans l’œil des mineurs de crypto.”

Source : Interdire le minage de bitcoin dans l’UE : les autorités suédoises appellent à des mesures drastiques

Deep in rural China, bitcoin miners are packing up

1 octobre 2021 / noflux

“To evade the clampdown, big miners have sent their machines overseas. Mr Su, who also runs a logistics business that transports mining machines, has been chartering Boeing 747s to get used ones out swiftly. Most are going to Russia and Kazakhstan, which together account for about 13% of the world’s bitcoin mining. But there are few data centres abroad with space for lots of new machines, including in America, the second-biggest miner. Building a farm there costs between five and ten times what it does in China, says Mr Su. That is too much for most Chinese miners. More than half of their computers will stay put for now, he says.”

Source : Deep in rural China, bitcoin miners are packing up | The Economist

16 juillet 2021 / noflux

“We’ve enhanced Android’s auto-rotate feature with face detection, using the front-facing camera to more accurately recognize when to rotate the screen. This is especially helpful for people who are using their devices while lying down on a couch or in bed, for example. For developers, this means that the auto-rotation behavior will provide a better user experience for users who have opted in through Settings. The enhanced auto-rotate feature lives within our recently announced Private Compute Core, so images are never stored or sent off the device. In Beta 3 this feature is available on Pixel 4 and later Pixel devices.To make screen rotation as speedy as possible on all devices, we’ve also optimized the animation and redrawing and added an ML-driven gesture-detection algorithm. As a result, the latency for the base auto-rotate feature has been reduced by 25%, and the benefits of the face detection enhancement build on top of those improvements. Give the auto-rotate improvements a try and let us know what yo”

Source : Android Developers Blog: Android 12 Beta 3 and final APIs