UN study warns AI data centres could soon out-consume Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nigeria combined
Nine hundred and forty-five terawatt-hours a year. That is the figure the United Nations University attributes to the data centres powering artificial intelligence by 2030, in a study published in early June by the Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) and reported by UN News. For scale: that is nearly triple the combined annual […]
El Hierro boosts desalinated water output by 15% while cutting energy costs by a third
Nine thousand residents, a climate that has delivered less and less rain in recent years, and an agricultural sector that depends almost entirely on water the island manufactures itself, because natural fresh water on El Hierro is scarce. Against that backdrop, on 3 August the Canary Islands’ Department of Territorial Policy, Territorial Cohesion and Water […]
Smaller Canary Islands bet on digital nomads to avoid emptying out
A consultant billing a client in Amsterdam, a project contract with a company in Berlin, a connection steady enough for video calls: that is roughly the profile of digital nomad the Canary Islands government would like to see landing not just in Tenerife or Gran Canaria, but in El Hierro. The plan is not new. […]