energy
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Texas has placed new scrutiny on the infrastructure pipeline supporting large data centers, a development with direct implications for Bitcoin miners competing for the same substations, transformers, transmission capacity, powered land and water resources. Governor Greg Abbott directed the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to pause permitting associated with data-center projects while the Electric Reliability…
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Canaan says an approximately 8 MW Nordic district-heating installation built around its hydro-cooled Avalon A1566HA Bitcoin mining systems is now fully online, turning ASIC heat into hot water for roughly 2,800 homes. The September 24 update marks a significant milestone for a project Canaan first detailed in May. At that point, approximately 2 MW of…
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The European Commission has proposed a common sustainability rating system for large data centers as Europe prepares for rapid growth in artificial intelligence infrastructure. Facilities with installed information technology capacity of at least 500 kW already report operational data under EU energy efficiency rules, and the proposed rating system will turn reported information into comparable…
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Starcloud plans to put Bitcoin-mining ASICs aboard an orbital data-center spacecraft, testing whether solar power can outweigh the challenges of cooling, launch cost and hardware reliability.
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HiTHIUM has unveiled a 4 MWh sodium-ion battery-storage system built around a new 785 Ah cell, targeting full-scale production in 2027 as sodium-ion chemistry moves toward infrastructure-scale energy storage.
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Canaan says installation is underway on a 3 MW Bitcoin mining heat-recovery project in Manitoba that will route thermal output from liquid-cooled Avalon miners into a commercial greenhouse heating system.
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Power Efficiency Theory (PET) argues that the value of a physical or computational system should be influenced by two things improving at the same time: its performance increases and its energy cost per unit of output declines. In proof-of-work networks, this can be measured through factors such as network hashrate, mining-machine output, and ASIC efficiency.…
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Monero’s Power Efficiency Index (PEI) paints a much tighter valuation picture than Zcash. From a 2022 baseline of $96.50, Monero’s PEI climbed to $141.40 in 2023, $207.19 in 2024, $303.60 in 2025, and $444.87 in 2026. That represents a 4.61× compounded power-efficiency progression, or roughly +361%, as Monero’s network performance and energy efficiency improved over…
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Litecoin’s recent mining expansion becomes more significant when placed beside Bitcoin and Zcash under the same Power Efficiency Theory framework. Rather than comparing the raw hashrates of three fundamentally different proof-of-work algorithms, the model normalizes each network to its own approximate 2022 baseline and measures two forms of physical improvement: growth in network computational output…
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Zcash’s resurgence is interesting because it gives us a useful Proof-of-Work comparison outside of Bitcoin. Over roughly the past four years, the Zcash network increased from about 8.2 GSol/s to 25.4 GSol/s, while leading Bitmain Equihash hardware improved from roughly 3.60 J/KSol to 3.15 J/KSol. Under the Power Efficiency Theory framework, that produces an estimated…
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Imagine looking through an ordinary window that is quietly producing electricity throughout the day. That vision is moving closer to reality as researchers in South Korea continue developing transparent solar cell technology capable of generating power while remaining clear enough for everyday use. Instead of absorbing visible light like traditional solar panels, these advanced photovoltaic…
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SoftBank Group, in a massive public-private partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy, has officially broken ground on the “Stargate” AI power and data campus in Piketon, Ohio. Located at a decommissioned uranium enrichment site, the project is staggering in scale: it aims for 10 gigawatts of computing capacity supported by a dedicated $33 billion…
