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Monday, August 18, 2025 | Curated today by: Nick van Osdol
August 17, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Additional Reading: 1 International Energy Agency, "AI is set to drive surging electricity demand from data centres", 2 Grid Strategies, “The Era of Flat Power Demand is Over”, 3 Hewlett Packard Enterprise, "What is Data Center Tiers", 4 Google Cloud, "Spanner Instance Configurations", 5 OpenAI, "OpenAI Status API", 6 Anthropic, "Claude Status API", 7 Google Cloud, "Using multi-tier checkpointing for large AI training jobs", 8 Google, "Milliseconds Make Millions Report", 9 Steven Levy, "In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives", 10 Combined data from OpenAI Platform, "Tokenizer Tool", , and LLM Utils, "OpenAI Status Tracker", 11 Wonder Network, "Network Ping Testing - New York to Tokyo", 12 OpenAI, “Deep Research FAQ”, 13 ArsTechnica, “New Claude 4 AI model refactored code for 7 hours straight”, 14 World Nuclear Association, "Nuclear Power in the USA", 15 US Department of Energy, "New Report Examines the U.S.
August 17, 2025 at 11:12 PM
August 17, 2025 at 11:11 PM
How will we feed the 100s of GWs of extra energy demand that AI will create over the next decade?
August 17, 2025 at 11:09 PM
We've seen this movie before.
August 17, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Last year, China construction on an estimated (GW) of new coal power capacity, enough to power the entire UK .
August 17, 2025 at 11:06 PM
As much as I sometimes get the urge to run from responsibility, I also occasionally hop on a call with enthusiastic readers of these pages or meet them in person.
August 17, 2025 at 11:06 PM
A Brazilian fashion model turned nuclear electricity influencer, Isabelle Boemeke’s path to nuclear advocacy is as unexpected as the message itself.
August 17, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Lane Simmons of the U.S.