A new appliance sold in the EU cannot draw more than 0.5 watts in basic standby mode—or 0.8 watts if it shows information like a clock. At current Spanish electricity prices, that half-watt running all year costs about €1.10. The red light on a modern TV is no longer the problem. The real culprits are … Read more
Ask how much a single chatbot query costs the planet and the answers scatter wildly: anywhere from a tenth of a watt-hour to several watt-hours, and from five drops of water to roughly 45 millilitres. None of those figures is invented. Each measures a different thing, on a different model, inside a different data centre … Read more
Finland’s national authority LVV has ordered Tuike Finland Oy, Google’s Finnish subsidiary, to immediately suspend land-preparation work at two planned data center locations: Muhos, where roughly 330 hectares are affected, and Kajaani/Otanmäki, covering about 200 hectares. The reason: trees were felled before the mandatory Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) had been completed. Google has until 14 … Read more
Amazon Web Services has quietly retired one of the most criticised tools in its data center playbook: the nondisclosure agreement. AWS chief executive Matt Garman confirmed the shift in a single line buried inside a long blog post defending the company’s infrastructure buildout, stating that Amazon no longer uses NDAs with the government agencies it … Read more