
Explained: Generative AI’s environmental impact - MIT News
Jan 17, 2025 · Plus, generative AI models have an especially short shelf-life, driven by rising demand for new AI applications. Companies release new models every few weeks, so the …
Study shows how households can cut energy costs - MIT News
Jan 13, 2025 · In the U.S., separate research has shown that about three in 10 households report trouble paying energy bills. To conduct the experiment, the researchers ran two versions of an …
Preparing Taiwan for a decarbonized economy - MIT News
Nov 4, 2024 · Taiwan’s Innovative Green Economy Roadmap (TIGER) is a two-year program with the MIT Energy Initiative, exploring ways that industry and government can promote and adopt …
The changing geography of “energy poverty” - MIT News
Oct 9, 2024 · This map estimates the change in U.S. household energy costs, as a fraction of income, between 2015 and 2020. Blue represents tracts where the average energy burden …
Ensuring a durable transition - MIT News
Nov 15, 2024 · And one-in-16 new jobs nationwide were in clean energy, with clean energy jobs growing more than three times faster than job growth economy-wide” In this rapid expansion, …
A nonflammable battery to power a safer, decarbonized future
Nov 21, 2024 · Now Alsym Energy has developed a nonflammable, nontoxic alternative to lithium-ion batteries to help renewables like wind and solar bridge the gap in a broader range of …
Energy | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6 days ago · Collaboration between MIT and GE Vernova aims to develop and scale sustainable energy systems. The MIT-GE Vernova Energy and Climate Alliance includes research, …
Power when the sun doesn’t shine - MIT News
Feb 29, 2024 · A study by the nonprofit LDES (Long Duration Energy Storage) Council pegs the long-duration energy storage market at between 80 and 140 terawatt-hours by 2040. “That’s a …
The multifaceted challenge of powering AI - MIT News
Jan 21, 2025 · The sudden need for more data centers to power AI presents a massive challenge to the technology and energy industries, government policymakers, and everyday consumers. …
Engineers develop an efficient process to make fuel from carbon …
Oct 30, 2023 · “The formate economy is an intriguing concept because metal formate salts are very benign and stable, and a compelling energy carrier,” says Ted Sargent, a professor of …