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Justine Calma

Justine Calma

Senior Science Reporter

Senior Science Reporter

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    Don’t expect Trump Media’s nuclear fusion power plant to generate electricity soon

    The energy demands of AI are driving investment in futuristic fusion reactors from Big Tech and now Trump Media. Is it viable?

    Justine Calma
    The ‘mad rush’ to install solar panels before tax credits run out

    The solar industry is pivoting to survive Donald Trump’s attacks on clean energy.

    Justine Calma
    Justine Calma
    Justine Calma
    The US is hiding more information about climate change.

    The Trump administration has taken down content about the human causes of global warming — greenhouse gases from fossil fuels — from the Environmental Protection Agency website, part of a larger purge of science-backed information on federal websites.

    “It’s clearly a deliberate effort to misinform,” UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain tells the Washington Post.

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    Justine Calma
    AI reasoning models are even more energy intensive.

    They used 30 times more electricity on average than other models according to research by the AI Energy Score project that included responses to 1,000 written prompts. “We should be smarter about the way that we use AI ... Choosing the right model for the right task is important,” Hugging Face research scientist Sasha Luccioni tells Bloomberg.