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Understanding Uptime Institute’s Tier III Standard: A Guide to Data Center Electrical System Design

Credit to Author: Nguyen Cong Sang| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 21:12:53 +0000

The Uptime Institute’s Tier standard is a globally recognized framework that classifies data centers into four tiers based on their infrastructure’s reliability, redundancy, and fault tolerance. These tiers—Tier I through […]

The post Understanding Uptime Institute’s Tier III Standard: A Guide to Data Center Electrical System Design appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Virginia Officials Say State Will Be Home to World’s First Fusion Power Plant

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 19:50:26 +0000

Virginia’s governor and other officials on Dec. 17 said the state has a plan for the world’s first nuclear fusion power plant. Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) on Tuesday announced it […]

The post Virginia Officials Say State Will Be Home to World’s First Fusion Power Plant appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Another Big Data Center Win for Nuclear: Oklo and Switch Sign Historic 12 GW Deal

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 13:15:49 +0000

Advanced nuclear firm Oklo has partnered with Switch, a Las Vegas-based data center designer, builder, and operator, to deploy 12 GW of Aurora powerhouses through 2044 in a  historic deal […]

The post Another Big Data Center Win for Nuclear: Oklo and Switch Sign Historic 12 GW Deal appeared first on POWER Magazine.

INSERT ART. Oklo’s Aurora Powerhouse is a vertically oriented compact passive fast-spectrum reactor derived from the Experimental Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II) that uses liquid metal as a coolant. The company recently uprated its design’s capacity offerings to 15 MWe and 100 MWe. The compact fast reactor uses a high-assay, low-enriched uranium (HALEU) metallic uranium-zirconium fuel enriched to about 19%. Courtesy: Oklo

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AI, Data Centers, & Climate Risks

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 20:21:56 +0000

The world has gone cuckoo for artificial intelligence. AI is virtually all you hear in the news these days. NVIDIA is worth a gazillion dollars because it manufactures the specialized computer chips that data centers need to make AI possible. Microsoft, Apple, Meta, Amazon, and Google are all rushing headlong … [continued]

The post AI, Data Centers, & Climate Risks appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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The POWER Interview: Energy Storage Also Eyed for Data Centers

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 15:42:13 +0000

Recent news about continued growth in the U.S. energy storage market highlighted continued deployments of grid-scale systems, along with ongoing demand from commercial and industrial and residential sectors. Electric utilities […]

The post The POWER Interview: Energy Storage Also Eyed for Data Centers appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Google Invests in Partnership to Develop Energy Assets at Data Center Parks

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 23:52:09 +0000

Technology companies are looking at various ways to source electricity for energy-intensive data centers. Google on Dec. 10 unveiled a plan to join with several partners in supporting power generation, […]

The post Google Invests in Partnership to Develop Energy Assets at Data Center Parks appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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