2025-11-11 01:15:59
📈 EIA: North America’s LNG Export Capacity Could More Than Double by 2029
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/EIA-North-Americas-LNG-Export-Capacity-Could-More-Than-Double-by-2029.html
📈 EIA: North America’s LNG Export Capacity Could More Than Double by 2029
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/EIA-North-Americas-LNG-Export-Capacity-Could-More-Than-Double-by-2029.html
Report suggests datacentre firms embrace flexible connection agreements, allowing grid operators to temporarily curtail their loads during peak demand or emergencies.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/datacentres-hoarding-power-capacity-ai-demand
Großwärmepumpen are heating up Germany: capacity is expected to increase 6x by 2030.
Rivers and sea are increasingly being used as a heat source. The cost of heat pumps appears to be proportional to their size.
These and other findings from a new study:
https://www.
Boom's move to modify its supersonic engine to power AI data centers is another example of industrial capacity being repurposed to serve the AI supply chain (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-12-09/the-ai-boom-is-absorbin…
🌐 GÉANT completes major migration of its pan-European IP backbone network
Delivered with partners Nokia and Nomios, the upgrade modernises GÉANT’s IP layer, enabling higher capacity, improved resilience & enhanced security for the European R&E community.
Key highlights:
🔹IP/MPLS backbone with support for 800G connectivity, including to the edges of Europe
🔹 Fully automated migration using the GÉANT Automation Platform (GAP)
🔗 Read more:
"From this universalist faith that God will redeem and bring back every one of his lost sheep, I gained the most surprising gift: the capacity to forgive my mother, the woman who murdered her, and myself."
—Julian Assele '26 M.A.R. in his powerful new piece in Commonweal https://www.commonwealm…
"China to See Solar Capacity Outstrip Coal Capacity This Year"
#China #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
DEEP Robotics, a Hangzhou-based startup that builds quadruped and humanoid robots, raised a $70M Series C to expand R&D and production capacity (Danielle Popov/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/arti
I've never flown in a helicopter and I'd be keen to fly in one of these if it was even vaguely affordable:
https://www.the-independent.com/tech/caa-canary-wharf-london-cambridge-european-union-aviati…
NSA cyber directorate gets new acting leadership
https://therecord.media/nsa-cyber-directorate-new-acting-leadership
Australia is connecting Snowy 2.0 to the grid with 800 new transmission towers, unlocking 2.2 GW of renewable power.
Vikram Solar opened a 5 GW plant in Tamil Nadu, scaling India's solar capacity.
Bolivia created the Loma Santa Indigenous Conservation Area, protecting Amazon forests under Indigenous stewardship.
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Yes, Switzerland🇨🇭 loves ⛰️ peaks. But when it comes to solar power, it's okay to take a little bit off the top.
From 2026 onwards, (new) solar power installations must limit their peak capacity to 70%. This only slightly reduces production, but it does reduce the simultaneous load on the grid.
https://www.…
Lockheed Martin to More Than Triple PAC-3 Missile Production Under Pentagon Deal (Connor Hart/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/lockheed-martin-to-raise-pac-3-capacity-in-defense-department-deal-a1e11e5f
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p62#a260106p62
#Helen (the energy company of #Helsinki) in 2024 has installed a 148 MW wind power plant.
https://www.helen.fi/en/n…
On the Zanussi ZWF01483W washing machine: Review (2020) - Cold washes, 10kg capacity, quick and intensive cycles. - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-Zanussi-ZWF01483W-freestanding-washing-machine-REVIEW.html
@dawid@social.craftknight.comThis mornings chuckle - thanks Linux. "sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16)." Very big indeed.
"Senegal’s solar capacity hits 671 MW"
#Senegal #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
Unsplittable Transshipments
Srinwanti Debgupta, Sarah Morell, Martin Skutella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07230 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.07230 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.07230
arXiv:2602.07230v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We introduce the Unsplittable Transshipment Problem in directed graphs with multiple sources and sinks. An unsplittable transshipment routes given supplies and demands using at most one path for each source-sink pair. Although they are a natural generalization of single source unsplittable flows, unsplittable transshipments raise interesting new challenges and require novel algorithmic techniques. As our main contribution, we give a nontrivial generalization of a seminal result of Dinitz, Garg, and Goemans (1999) by showing how to efficiently turn a given transshipment $x$ into an unsplittable transshipment $y$ with $y_a<x_a d_{\max}$ for all arcs $a$, where $d_{\max}$ is the maximum demand (or supply) value. Further results include bounds on the number of rounds required to satisfy all demands, where each round consists of an unsplittable transshipment that routes a subset of the demands while respecting arc capacity constraints.
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In the wake of immigration agents’ killings of three US citizens within a matter of weeks,
the Department of Homeland Security is quietly moving forward with a plan to
expand its capacity for mass detention by using a military contract to create
what Pablo Manríquez, the author of the immigration news site Migrant Insider calls
“a nationwide ‘ghost network’ of concentration camps.”
On Sunday, Manríquez reported that “a massive Navy contract vehicle,
once v…
@… Might sometimes still be -- DOCSIS QoS will priotize specific traffic when the channel doesn't have the capacity.
But I don't think there's much to fix there for you, just wait and pray.
What's the smallest memory card for a digital computer ever? Is it those strips for the HP-65 calculator? (IIRC those have 600 bits capacity)
Big Tech's AI data center plans, which are set to need an estimated 44GW of additional capacity by 2028, face a power crunch that could deflate the AI "bubble" (Financial Times)
https://ig.ft.com/ai-power/
Here’s how I see it: we need the world but the world does not need Google. https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115589890042809437
YEAH! I have been selected for the "India-Germany Climate and Energy Journalism Programme" of @…
It'll be a great rehearsal to my 3 month stay as Media Ambassador of Uni Tübingen and #RBSG in 2019, and came back just before Covid stopped everything.
…
T-glass, a type of ultrathin glass sheet used in advanced chips, is in short supply and largely comes from Nittobo, which is not adding capacity for months (Yang Jie/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/a-critical-ai-nic
Glad to see someone is at least trying to address the transmission capacity problem.
Last year I worked on a project with one of Oregon’s utilities related to optimizing the use of available transmission capacity, because there just isn’t enough.
https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/1158
@dawid@social.craftknight.com"Australia rooftop solar installs rise as households shift to larger systems"
#Australia #SolarPower #Energy
Energy in the new Dutch coalition agreement.
1. Highest priority for electricity grid congestion. Better use of capacity by incentives in grid fees, flex contracts, and energy hubs. A crisis-law grid congestion to accelerate permitting procedures for grid expansion.
Massachusetts just awarded 1.3 GW of grid batteries to avoid costly upgrades. Kenya is scaling compressed earth blocks that cool homes with far less cement. CATL and Stellantis are building a 50 GWh battery plant in Spain to supply European EVs.
Real capacity, real progress.
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NextEra Energy expands its partnership with Google Cloud to develop data centre campuses across the US and secures 2.5 GW of clean energy contracts from Meta (Vallari Srivastava/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/next…
"Spain allocates funding for 9.4 GWh of large-scale storage projects"
#Spain #Energy #Batteries
Communities have changed how resistance is conducted
— away from the myth of the solitary activist hero
and toward
shared capacity.
As Grace Lee Boggs taught us,
“Movements are born of critical connections rather than critical mass.”
Political exhaustion took on new meaning.
It was no longer treated as a personal struggle, but as shared terrain
— produced by oppressive systems and requiring collective response.
The question shifted from…
Why nothing changes at DCA, and why I never want to fly there...
#aviation
Glad I decided to go to virtualization and cloud infra instead room early. It filled up to capacity 40 minutes before the first talk 🤯#fosdem
"US adds 21.2 GW of solar through September 2025"
#US #USA #America #SolarPower
National Grid DSO's contracted flexibility numbers are impressive. The domestic segment is showing particularly strong growth, with EV charging accounting for the majority of this. Many small units are coming together to make a big contribution.
https://dso.nationalg…
Jones Lang LaSalle projects Malaysia's operational data center capacity to increase from ~1,025 MW at the end of 2025 to ~2,100 MW by the end of 2026 (Norman Goh/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/malaysia-s-data…
Hm, $450 for a bike whose manufacturer is about to enter bankruptcy (in no small part due to recalls), with broken rear wheel & motor, and almost 7,000 miles on it? Good luck with that.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/267487858971
It still includes some road widening.
"Switzerland Unveils 2045 Transport Plan: Major Rail Upgrades and Over 30 Road Projects Scrapped" - SWI swissinfo.ch
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/various/switzerland-to-…
#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 13 - Orac
CALLY: Are you saying you can see into the future?
ORAC: The words future, present, past are meaningless.
AVON: Define 'meaningless'.
ORAC: I have the capacity to predict events that have not yet taken place.
Washington's cap-and-invest auctions have raised billions now funding transit, heat pumps, and clean energy projects. Japan is activating multi-trillion-yen green finance for resilience and transition. China commissioned a 1 GW floating solar farm paired with aquaculture.
Policy meets practice, at scale.
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TransLink proposes major improvements to HandyDART
Customer-First Plan would increase HandyDART capacity, extend hours, and make it easier to plan trips
https://link.etranslink.ca/v/443/61496305bc86358c0d4b8ff78cfb572f24b98893a48c639a23…
A lot of the problem with the UK's asylum system has been related to an overwhelmed administrative capacity (the "backlog") so proposing adding 30 month reviews on top of that seems counter-productive?
(Reminds me of how Conservative governments would routinely increase sentences for those convicted, but refused to increase the prison capacity.)
On the Zanussi ZWF01483W washing machine: Review (2020) - Cold washes, 10kg capacity, quick and intensive cycles. - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-Zanussi-ZWF01483W-freestanding-washing-machine-REVIEW.html
AWS implemented a 15% price hike for EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML on January 3; Amazon says it "reflects the supply/demand patterns we expect this quarter" (Corey Quinn/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/aws_price_increase/
In neither this year nor the next should anyone expect Russia to propose a deal that is meaningfully different from what it has already.
How do we change the circumstances?
There are two main levers.
The first deteriorates conditions inside Russia to the point that Mr. Putin is forced to consider ending the war as the lesser evil,
and it is achieved by imposing sanctions that would be powerful and smart enough to erode Russia’s capacity to wage war and significantly i…
"Adani Green Energy commissions 307.4 MW of renewables in India"
#India #Energy #Renewables
@… @… Hear hear.
The way we win is exactly by understanding that each of us have limited capacity and limited subject matter expertise, and that we must each fight the fight in the way we are uniquely suited to do so, while trustin…
150 GW in a year: record new wind power capacity installed globally in 2025! Not really evenly spread over the world ;)
China 100 GW (that country where Trump couldn't find a single wind turbine :)
Europe 17 GW
US 7 GW
India 6 GW
Rest of the World 20 GW
<…
Japan faces bottlenecks in data center construction due to labor shortages and more; DC Byte says Japan's capacity has tripled to 6.8 GW in the past five years (Tsubasa Suruga/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn
AWS unveils its 192-core Graviton5 processor, with an up to 25% performance boost over Graviton4, and says Graviton makes up 50% of AWS' new CPU capacity (About Amazon)
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-graviton-5-cpu-amazon-ec2
"Finland adds 227 MW of utility-scale solar in 2025"
#Finland #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables…
President Xi Jinping highlighted China’s achievements in artificial intelligence and the chip industry
in a triumphant New Year’s Eve speech as he called for more confidence in the country’s development path in the year ahead.
“China has become one of the world’s fastest-rising economies in terms of innovative capacity,”
he declared in a televised address on Wednesday beamed to the nation’s 1.4 billion people,
in which he touted China’s achievements in large AI models …
Hmm, I can imagine a few extra non-technical issues with this scheme for the next 3 years or so...
#EU
"Spain deploys 1.13 GW of solar for self-consumption in 2025"
#Spain #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
After some time in preparation, and following an initial attempt to prioritise the allocation of network capacity, the Dutch NRA has now taken a (and this time: own) decision.
Priority for 'congestion softeners', safety, healthcare, housing etc.
https://www.officielebekendmakingen.nl/stc<…
The memory shortage that is spiking RAM prices is now expanding to the broader PC market, driving price hikes for GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and hard drives (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0
"Singapore forecast to reach 5.3 GW of solar by 2035"
#Singapore #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
I will say right now that growing up in militia land we never, never successfully built the organizational capacity or popular support to pull off an honest to God revolution.
What I'm seeing out of MN looks like exactly that.
DHS is cosplaying civil war,
the resistance is building *capability.*
https://…
"US battery capacity rises 59% with 14 GW added in 12 months, says EIA"
#US #USA #America #Batteries
ArcelorMittal is betting big on India's clean energy future with $900M in new projects.
The steel giant is building a 250MW wind farm, 300MW solar facility, and massive battery storage in Gujarat—cutting 1.59 million tons of CO2 annually. Combined with projects in Brazil and Argentina, they're adding 3.3GW of renewable capacity.
On the Zanussi ZWF01483W washing machine: Review (2020) - Cold washes, 10kg capacity, quick and intensive cycles. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-Zanussi-ZWF01483W-freestanding-washing-machine-REVIEW.html
Uruguay used to rely heavily on oil & gas-based power.
But as the economy grew and electricity demand threatened to overtake supply from the early 2010s,
it needed to add additional generating capacity, and fast.
New hydro wasn’t an option as it had already made the most of that resource.
To chart the way forward, the president appointed Ramón Méndez Galain,
a particle physicist from the private sector,
as the country’s director of energy
— a pos…
What about a pool of public DC charging stations that could provide balancing energy to the Swiss TSO? A new project is looking to aggregate that combined capacity and remunerate drivers for slightly slower charging speeds at certain times, which would help stabilise the grid when needed.
https://www.laden-pu…
Hundreds of megawatts of new data center capacity are being planned in Vernon, a city near LA, which is a key US-Asia cable-linking hub and is becoming crowded (Nilesh Christopher/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/202
Sources: Apple now needs to fight for TSMC production capacity amid the AI boom; Nvidia was likely TSMC's top customer in at least one or two quarters in 2025 (Tim Culpan/Culpium)
https://www.culpium.com/p/exclusiveapple-is-fighting-for-tsmc
Western Australia just broke ground on its biggest electricity grid upgrade in over a decade. The Clean Energy Link will double transmission capacity in Perth's north, clearing the way for massive wind and solar expansion while enabling the state's coal exit by 2030.
Over 400 jobs created, completion set for 2027.
"Spain awards 133 energy-storage projects totaling 2.4 GW and 10 GWh"
#Spain #Energy #Renewables
Oracle says it plans to raise $45B to $50B in 2026 to build additional capacity for its cloud infrastructure through a combination of debt and equity sales (Vincent Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…
Amazon announced an investment of up to $50 billion to expand AI and supercomputing capabilities for Amazon Web Services (AWS)
U.S. government customers.
This investment, set to break ground in 2026, will add nearly 1.3 gigawatts of AI and supercomputing capacity across
AWS Top Secret,
AWS Secret,
and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
by building data centers with advanced compute and networking technologies.
Federal agencies will gain expanded access to A…
"India may need 230 GWh of energy storage by 2030 as peak demand rises"
#India #Energy #Renewables
Weekly Climate Solutions Digest #16!! 💖🌊✨
https://www.forpeopleandpla.net/weekly-climate-solutions-digest-16/?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social
At a recent all-hands meeting, Google's head of AI infrastructure Amin Vahdat said Google must double AI compute capacity every six months to meet demand (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/21/google-says-it-must-dou…
"Cyprus installs 122 MW of solar capacity in 2025"
#Cyprus #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
Donald Trump’s weaponization of the US department of justice
to focus on retribution against political foes,
on fulfilling Maga goals and on granting pardons for allies
has seen thousands of lawyers depart or be fired
and weakened investigations in civil rights, national security and other areas, say ex-prosecutors and legal experts.
Data compiled by the nonpartisan Justice Connection showed that overall DoJ employment has dropped by about 5,500 lawyers and non-…
How a Chinese entrepreneur amassed 10M IPv4 addresses, mostly from Africa, to lease them outside Africa, leaving African ISPs struggling to expand capacity (Alexandra Wexler/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/telecom/afric
Sources: China is requiring chipmakers to use at least 50% domestically made equipment for adding new capacity, in a rule that is not publicly documented (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-mandates-50-domestic-…
Sources: Google has formed a new executive council to allocate computing capacity given a critical shortage; members include Thomas Kurian and Demis Hassabis (Erin Woo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-balancing-act-googles-co…
It’s hard to articulate just how quickly batteries for grid storage are coming online.
These massive arrays of cells can soak up electricity when sources like solar are available and prices are low,
and then discharge power back to the grid when it’s needed most.
Back in 2015, the battery storage industry had installed only a fraction of a gigawatt-hour of battery storage capacity across the US.
That year, it set a seemingly bold target of adding 35 gigawatt-hours by …
"India forecast to add 41.5 GW of new solar capacity in fiscal 2026"
#India #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
PaleBlueDot, which operates a GPU capacity marketplace and designs GPU clusters for enterprises, raised a $150M Series B led by B Capital at a $1B valuation (Krystal Hu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific
"Bangladesh signs PPAs for 523 MW of solar capacity"
#Bangladesh #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
San Francisco Compute, which provides a marketplace for AI computing capacity, raised a $40M Series A led by DCVC and Wing Venture Capital at a $300M valuation (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/s…
ASML reports Q4 net sales of €9.7B, vs. €9.6B est., and €2.84B net profit, vs. €3.01B est., and says it expects China to account for 20% of its total 2026 sales (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/asml-q4-2025-earnings-report.html
Germany-based Quantum Systems, which sells surveillance drones that are being used by Ukraine, raised €180M, tripling its valuation to €3B since May (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
Nvidia invests an additional $2B in CoreWeave to help speed up adding 5GW of AI computing capacity by 2030 and deploy Nvidia's new Vera CPU; CRWV jumps 9% (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-26/nvi…
"Africa’s installed PV capacity estimated above 63 GW"
#Africa #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
AWS announces a commitment to invest up to $50B to build AI and HPC infrastructure for the US government, starting in 2026 and adding nearly 1.3 GW of capacity (Eric Revell/Fox Business)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/amazon-invest…
Industry executives say nearly all major memory chipmakers are running at or near full capacity, with 2026 production slots almost "sold out" due to AI demand (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technolog…
Anthropic commits to buy $30B in Azure capacity in a new deal with Microsoft and Nvidia, which commit to invest up to $5B and $10B, respectively, in Anthropic (Microsoft)
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/18/microsoft-nvidia-…
A look at Huawei's efforts to build an independent Chinese chip supply chain; through vehicles like Hubble, it has invested in 60 chip companies since 2019 (Itsuro Fujino/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/
Tokyo-based Resonac, a crucial cutting-edge chip chemicals supplier whose shares are up 40% YTD, says it has bolstered China production capacity to meet demand (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-17/ch…
TrendForce: data centers will use 70% of the high-end memory chips all manufacturers will produce in 2026, with little new manufacturing capacity until 2027 (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/memory-ram-sho
Hut 8 partners with Fluidstack to build an AI data center in Louisiana for Anthropic, backed by a 15-year, $7B lease, starting with 245MW of computing capacity (Akash Sriram/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/hut-8-sha
A look at the global AI data center buildout, its limits, and ROI concerns; in 2025, US capacity that is built, underway, planned, or stalled has topped 80 GW (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/when-ai-hype-m
Ford plans to repurpose its US battery manufacturing capacity to launch a battery energy storage business for data centers, amid a shift away from large EVs (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/15/ford-is-starting-a-bat…