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Recycling Lithium-Ion Batteries Offers Benefits Over Mining Virgin Metals

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Recycling lithium-ion batteries is the way to go, according to a new Stanford University lifecycle analysis published in Nature Communications. That’s because recovering the critical metals from used lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) has significantly lower environmental impacts than does mining virgin metals. Recycling critical materials in end-of-life LIBs can help alleviate … [continued]

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Reducing Data Center Peak Cooling Demand and Energy Costs With Underground Thermal Energy Storage

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As US Data Centers Continue To Grow, Integrating Geothermal UTES Cooling Could Change the Game As the demand for U.S. data centers grows with the expansion of artificial intelligence, cloud services, and big data analytics, so do the energy loads these centers require. By some estimates, data center energy demands … [continued]

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