This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at an audacious plan for floating, ocean-powered data centers and GM’s ...

A report from UK-based climate and energy think tank Ember notes that clean energy sources accounted for 40.9% percent of electricity produced around the world in 2024. The finding comes from data and ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The world used clean power sources to meet more than 40 percent of its electricity ...

Electricity generation from renewable sources reached a new high in 2024. Texas was far and away the leader among U.S. states. Four out of the five states generating the largest share of renewable ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dianne Plummer is an Energy Consultant and Certified Energy Manager. As the world races to combat climate change, the debate over ...

AI Energy Consumption As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to proliferate, reshaping industries and prompting rapid technological advancements, a critical shift has occurred in the tech landscape ...

Meta’s deal to help revive an Illinois nuclear power plant was one way of signaling that the parent company of Facebook and Instagram is preparing for a future built with artificial intelligence. Meta ...

Big technology companies are facing pushback over their data centers, which have been blamed for rising energy prices in the U.S. These so-called hyperscalers have pledged to bear rising energy costs ...

1. Coal-fired electricity generation is essential to ensuring that our Nation’s grid is reliable and that electricity is affordable to the American people, and to promoting our Nation’s energy ...

Artificial intelligence is an emerging source of productivity and economic growth that’s also reshaping employment and investment. AI has the potential to raise the average pace of annual global ...

In broad daylight, law enforcement officers raid a warehouse on the outskirts of the city of Sukhumi in Abkhazia, a Russia-backed breakaway Georgian region. No one’s there; no drugs or weapons either.

Africa is rapidly expanding electricity generation, but new research shows energy planning must also account for water ...