Exclusive eBook: The Math on AI’s Energy Footprint
In this exclusive subscirber-only ebook you’ll learn how the emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the...
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The Download: Aluminium’s potential as a zero-carbon fuel, and what’s next for energy storage
Found Energy, a startup in Boston, aims to harness the energy in scraps of aluminum metal to power industrial processes without fossil fuels. Since 2022,...
What a massive thermal battery means for energy storage
Thermal batteries could help clean up difficult-to-decarbonize sectors like manufacturing and heavy industrial processes like cement and steel production. With Rondo’s latest announcement, the industry...
2025 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: Ather Energy and its premium e-scooters
As the country’s leading EV-only scooter maker, Ather’s successful expansion could supercharge India’s shift away from fossil fuels, and help achieve the government’s goal of...
The Download: Trump’s impact on science, and meet our climate and energy honorees
Every year MIT Technology Review celebrates accomplished young scientists, entrepreneurs, and inventors from around the world in our Innovators Under 35 list. We’ve just published...
The Download: AI’s energy future
Three big things we still don’t know about AI’s energy burden —James O’Donnell Earlier this year, when my colleague Casey Crownhart and I spent six...
Three big things we still don’t know about AI’s energy burden
The problem with finding that number, as we explain in our piece published in May, was that AI companies are the only ones who have...
How Trump is helping China extend its massive lead in clean energy
All of which will help China extend an already massive lead. The nation has installed nearly three times as many wind turbines as the US,...
3 problems with Google’s AI energy use data
“We’re not comfortable revealing that for various reasons,” Dean told me on our call. The total number is an abstract measure that changes over time,...
The Download: Google’s AI energy use, and the AI Hype Index
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Google’s still not...