Renewable Energy
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Confronting the AI/energy conundrum
The MIT Energy Initiative’s annual research symposium explores artificial intelligence as both a problem and a solution for the clean energy transition. Leda Zimmerman | MIT Energy Initiativehttps://news.mit.edu/2025/confronting-ai-energy-conundrum-0702 The explosive growth of AI-powered computing centers is creating an unprecedented surge in electricity demand that threatens to overwhelm power grids and derail climate goals. At the same time,…
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How the UK’s plans for AI could derail net zero – the numbers explained
Tom Jackson, Loughborough University and Ian R. Hodgkinson, Loughborough University The UK government’s goal to increase public-controlled artificial intelligence computing power twentyfold by 2030 would significantly raise electricity demand. Can renewable energy supply meet it – and still have enough left over to electrify sectors like heating and transport, which must be fully decarbonised by…