Exxon’s AI Power Play Aims to Beat Nuclear

By Liam Denning Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’s Lex column. To most of us, a power plant is a source of electricity. To Exxon Mobil Corp., it’s a machine that converts natural …

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GE Vernova Expects More Trouble for Struggling Offshore Wind Industry

It looks easy enough: Ask ChatGPT something, and it responds. But pull back the curtain, and you’ll find that every ChatGPT prompt and Microsoft Copilot task consumes vast resources. Millions of human beings engineering, correcting and training models. Enough terawatt-hours of electricity to power countries. Data center mega­campuses around the world. Power line networks and …

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AI Wants More Data. More Chips. More Real Estate. More Power. More Water. More Everything

It looks easy enough: Ask ChatGPT something, and it responds. But pull back the curtain, and you’ll find that every ChatGPT prompt and Microsoft Copilot task consumes vast resources. Millions of human beings engineering, correcting and training models. Enough terawatt-hours of electricity to power countries. Data center mega­campuses around the world. Power line networks and …

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Oil Sands are Canada’s Winning Lottery Ticket With ‘Significant Change’ in Emissions Growth

‘The Oil Sands are Canada’s Winning Lottery Ticket’ By Deborah Jaremko Follow CEC on Linkedin  CEC Linkedin Follow CEC on Facebook CEC Facebook Follow CEC on Twitter CEC Twitter   As Alberta’s oil sands sector reaches a major economic milestone, a new report shows that emissions growth continues to slow. There is a clear “structural break” for the industry where …

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Shale Drilling Techniques Could Lead to a Geothermal Surge, IEA Says

Summary Geothermal energy in its infancy Shale drilling drew opposition from environmental campaigners More than $1 trillion in investment needed (Reuters) – The shale drilling techniques that led to a boom in oil and gas output have also spurred the development of geothermal, which in theory could provide a stable source of power equal to …

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