China's export controls on antimony are set to take effect on September 15th. Furthermore, according to a report from Liberty Times Net, it is indicated that these controls could be escalated, with plans to impose additional restrictions on tungsten by the end of this year. Addressing the matter,...

On August 15, China's Ministry of Commerce announced restrictions on the export of the strategic mineral antimony for national security reasons, set to take effect on September 15, 2024. According to sources cited by the Commercial Times, the market price of antimony could skyrocket to USD 30,000 p...

Currently, the issue of low power consumption remains a key concern in the industry. According to a recent report by the International Energy Agency (IEA), given that an average Google search requires 0.3Wh and each request to OpenAI's ChatGPT consumes 2.9Wh, the 9 billion searches conducted daily w...

Could AI Be Heading Towards an "Energy Crisis"? Speculation suggests that a Microsoft engineer involved in the GPT-6 training cluster project has warned that deploying over 100,000 H100 GPUs in a single state might trigger a collapse of the power grid. Despite signs of OpenAI's progress in training ...

The Ministry of Energy in Bulgaria has launched 2 separate calls to build new renewable energy capacity and energy storage facilities in the country with more than BGN 535 million (roughly USD 298 million) budget. The BG-RRP-4.032 tender will support new solar and/or wind power projects with co-l...