TRUST but verify: India, US reboot AI chip talksIndian and US officials met to discuss the TRUST initiative and COMPACT partnership, focusing on tech, trade, and talent. The repeal of the...
29 May, 2025, 11.18 PM IST
India may need additional 50 mn sqft real estate for data centres by 2030: Deloitte reportDeloitte reports India needs significant real estate and power boosts for AI data centers by 2030. The report highlights India's advantages...
08 May, 2025, 05.02 PM IST
India's lower coal imports mean bad news for power emissionsIndia reduced thermal coal imports by over 5.5 million tons in 2024 compared to the previous year. However, domestic coal burning increased...
31 Jan, 2025, 11.48 AM IST
View: Limiting energy consumption in AI is vital — look to the frugal human brain for pathwaysInvestments in AI startups are rising, but so is their power consumption. Data centers could use 4% of global electricity by 2026. Powering...
03 Oct, 2024, 10.45 PM IST
Strong GDP growth, weak monsoon drove up India's energy-related carbon emissions in 2023: IEAIndia's energy-related carbon emissions increased due to strong GDP growth and weak monsoon. China dominated in clean energy additions. Coa...
02 Mar, 2024, 04.39 PM IST
Bitcoin mining has 'very worrying' impacts on land & water: UN studyA new study conducted by UN scientists has found that Bitcoin mining activities have significant environmental footprints, including carbon...
25 Oct, 2023, 02.18 PM IST
India ranks 3rd globally for total renewable additions in 2021: ReportREN21's Renewables 2022 Global Status Report (GSR 2022) sends a clear warning that the global clean energy transition is not happening, mak...
16 Jun, 2022, 11.15 AM IST
How cryptocurrencies work (and how they don't)Fundamentally, cryptocurrencies are digital money. The blockchain is a database for recording transactions of said digital money. This digi...
21 Apr, 2022, 01.29 PM IST
The power crunch just made renewables strongerA global power crunch seems to be accelerating the push away from fuel-based energy, and into zero-carbon power, whose cost is fixed when t...
21 Dec, 2021, 09.32 AM IST
UP lagging behind other states in delivering renewable energy targets: ReportA joint report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) and energy think tank Ember also highlighted that the s...
17 Dec, 2021, 04.47 PM IST
Germany switches on power slowly after lockdown: researchGermany, Europe's leading power market with 511 terawatt hours (TWh) of annual consumption lost up to 7.5 per cent of power usage on workda...
30 Apr, 2020, 01.20 PM IST
Asia is set to support global coal demand for the next 5 years: IEAAccording to IEA, the weakness in coal demand this year results mainly from coal-fired electricity generation, which is set to experience i...
17 Dec, 2019, 06.15 PM IST
Not cool: ACs will make world 0.5 degree Celsius warmer by 2100India will see a phenomenal growth during the period - from 26.3 million installed stock of room air conditioner (RAC) units in 2016 to ove...
14 Nov, 2018, 11.12 AM IST
Not cool: ACs will make world 0.5 degree Celsius warmer by 2100India will see a phenomenal growth during the period - from 26.3 million installed stock of room air conditioner (RAC) units in 2016 to ove...
14 Nov, 2018, 08.29 AM IST
India's share in global air conditioning units to jump from 2.2% to almost 25% by 205012 Nov, 2018, 10.22 PM IST
Replacing inefficient motors could save $375 billion globallyBy optimising them and making them more efficient, the world could save more than 1350 TWh of electricity, which is around seven percent of...
28 Oct, 2016, 04.14 PM IST
- The wind in our sails
Wind energy has come a long way since commercial prototypes came to the market over 25 years ago. Today’s wind turbines with state-of-the-a...
12 Oct, 2006, 12.57 AM IST