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Microsoft wants to get electricity from fusion energy in five years

TechSpot

Microsoft and Helion have entered an outstanding agreement involving nuclear fusion, a source of clean, theoretically unlimited energy that Helion is betting will be commercially viable by 2028.

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A boost for fusion power: With new law, Washington state leaders signal support for sector’s next steps

GeekWire

Associate scientist Aria Johansen installing neutron detectors on Zap Energy’s FuZE fusion device. Zap Photo) While the reality of affordable fusion energy is still an atom-smashing twinkle in physicists’ eyes, the state of Washington is moving ahead with plans to support the nascent commercial fusion sector.

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Powering the future: How Gen AI and AI illuminate utility companies

CIO Business Intelligence

While international conflict, economic uncertainty and climate change are affecting businesses of all kinds, energy companies and utilities are also dealing with aging infrastructure, constant cyberattacks, increased regulation and rising customer expectations. And by 2028, the AI spend is likely to more than quadruple to 14.257 billion USD.

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Bill Gates’ TerraPower wins $8.5M in federal funding for conversion of used nuclear fuel

GeekWire

Department of Energy to work on safer methods to recover uranium from used nuclear fuel. TerraPower’s recycling process is among 11 projects that will receive a total of $36 million in federal funding from the department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy, or ARPA-E. million grant from the U.S.

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‘Just watch us’: Gates-backed TerraPower is bullish on being the first next-gen nuclear plant in U.S.

GeekWire

This month, the company expects to submit to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission an application for the certification of its Natrium reactor , which it developed with GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy. Department of Energy. It can provide a carbon-free energy source 24/7, complementing the intermittent power coming from wind and solar.

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Microsoft and Helion want to build the world’s first fusion plant and seize energy’s ‘Holy Grail’

GeekWire

(Helion Photo) Microsoft and Helion Energy on Wednesday announced a historic agreement that could pave the way to the world’s first fusion power plant. The goal is to get the plant running by 2028. Engineers for decades have chased the promise of fusion energy — a potentially limitless source of carbon-free power.

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Pioneering 5G Acceleration, Indonesia Marks a Revolutionary Digital Era Through Its First 5G Warehouse

CIO Business Intelligence

billion by 2028. Smart technology in the smart warehouse The 5G BTS technology from Huawei that supports all business operations in the 5G Warehouse only consumes five watts of energy or the equivalent of one energy-saving bulb. This low energy consumption makes Huawei’s 5G BTS technology a sustainable solution for the future.

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