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In today’s newsletter: Google will soon use nuclear reactors to run its AI datacentres. What are the economic, ethical and environmental implications?

Tech company orders six or seven small nuclear reactors from California’s Kairos Power

... any moves to curtail the expanding amounts of energy consumed in developing ... ever more advanced AI models are futile...

Event will push for greater transparency and aims to rank AI firms in terms of ability to meet climate goals

Emissions from in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official tally

But the neural networks, like people, cannot lie unless they've been trained to lie. The fact that AI companies have put in all these layers of what I call their control program... they're nervous that once people figure...

Yet more evidence yesterday's utopian corporate climate mission statements are today's shredder trash.

The 35-nation Iter project has a groundbreaking aim to create clean and limitless energy but it is turning into the ‘most delayed and cost-inflated science project in history’

As demand for the tin ore cassiterite soars, special forces units of Brazil’s Ibama environment agency must play a cat and mouse game with the thousands of illegal miners pouring into Yanomami reserves

Electric vehicles are ‘batteries on wheels’ that can put energy back into the National Grid when solar panels and windfarms do not provide much power

UK Steel says British firms paid prices in spring well over double French and Spanish equivalents

New computing infrastructure means big tech is likely to miss emissions targets but they can’t afford to get left behind in a winner takes all market

Tech firm’s bid to remove more CO2 than it produces is being tested as AI spawns new energy-hungry datacentres

Microsoft co-founder says efficiencies for technology and electricity grids will outweigh energy use by data centres

Opponents of bills argue ‘offramp’ to keep gas or coal plants running will be triggered if energy-heavy centers are built