Neowin News Feed for: Electricity

This powerful material had to go through a torture test to help solve long standing puzzle

Sayan Sen — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:46:01 +0000

This powerful substance underwent a stress test so that we could unravel a decades-old scientific mystery. Read more...

This is how much it costs to mine one Bitcoin in the U.S.

Ivan Jenic — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 23:00:01 +0000

Bitcoin mining used to cost pocket change 15 years ago. Now the price to mine just one is mind-boggling. Read more...

Google limits AI data center power usage to support US grid during peak times

Hamid Ganji — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 18:38:01 +0000

Google has pledged to curb data center energy use during peak hours to reduce strain on the US power grid. Read more...

Microsoft will offer its datacenter batteries for grid load-balancing in Ireland

Alap Naik Desai — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 21:28:02 +0000

Microsoft is offering its data center lithium-ion battery banks to help stabilize electricity from wind farms in Ireland. The method could do away with 'spinning reserve' or standby excess capacity. Read more...

Samsung announces SmartThings Energy, giving visibility into your electricity usage

Christopher White — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 09:00:01 +0000

Samsung has released SmartThings Energy, a tool to give real-time visibility into your home's electricity utilization in order to help reduce usage and cost, built into the SmartThings ecosystem. Read more...

Google introduces 'Project Sunroof,' helps you cut costs with solar energy

Justin Luna — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 14:38:01 +0000

Google has devised a new tool that takes advantage of solar energy. Called "Project Sunroof," it measures sunlight, and calculates how much it would cost to install a solar panel on a house's roof. Read more...

Data centers: the most wasteful thing since the Hummer?

Tyler Holman — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 02:12:13 +0000

Data centers could be mankind's most wasteful invention since the Hummer. By running at full power 24/7, they're wasting more energy than you'll use in a lifetime, and that's just for idling. Read more...

Electricity grid in the US infiltrated by spies

Tom Warren — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:57:56 +0000

If you love your gadgets and most of us do then this is a scary development for every owner of a device that requires a power source. According to the Wall Street Journal the Electicity... Read more...

Sony's 'Bio Battery' Generates Electricity from Sugar

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 01:56:09 +0000

Sony today announced the development of a bio battery that generates electricity from carbohydrates (sugar) utilizing enzymes as its catalyst, through the application of power generation principles found in living organisms. Test cells of this... Read more...

Samsung Halts Some Production After Electricity Problem

Sat, 04 Aug 2007 02:49:17 +0000

Samsung, the world's largest memory chip maker, was forced to partially halt production due to an electrical mishap in a factory today. According to spokewoman Lee Soo-jeong, a spark in an electrical transformer led to... Read more...

40% of all electricity is used by turned off devices

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 21:17:10 +0000

The Department of Energy estimates that in the average home, 40 percent of all electricity used to power home electronics is consumed while the products are turned off. Add that all up, and it equals... Read more...

New Bio Fuel Cell Extracts Electricity From Air

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:42:07 +0000

Fraser Armstrong, Ph.D. and his research team at Oxford University have managed to develop a revolutionary bio fuel cell which promises clean and renewable energy. The bio fuel cell contains two electrodes that are covered... Read more...