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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Norway aims to impose a temporary ban on the establishment of new data centres that mine cryptocurrency with the most power-intensive technology, in order to conserve electricity for other industries, the Nordic country's government said on Friday.
A wave of Chinese gold miners is pushing to raise funds in Hong Kong, seeking to capitalise on rising investor interest in the metal during a record-setting rally that's made it a standout commodity performer.
Here's a look at the news highlights from Asean countries in the Star-AseanPlus section for Thursday (July 3, 2025)
KUALA LUMPUR: The government's move to collect mobile phone data must be called off as it could lead to abuse and the erosion of public trust, says MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong.
Here's a look at the news highlights from Asean countries in the Star-AseanPlus section for Wednesday (July 2, 2025)
LIMA (Reuters) -Peru's government has significantly reduced the protected area around its famed Nazca Lines, a move critics and archaeologists fear could leave the ancient geoglyphs vulnerable to hundreds of nearby informal mining operations.
In a test case for the artificial intelligence industry, a federal judge has ruled that AI company Anthropic didn't break the law by training its chatbot Claude on millions of copyrighted books.
Glencore Plc's Hail Creek coal mine in Australia emits between three and eight times more methane than it reports, according to a new study, calling into question the accuracy of conventional approaches for measuring the greenhouse gas.
(Reuters) - Hut 8 said on Monday it had joined hands with President Donald Trump's son, Eric Trump, to launch a bitcoin mining company called American Bitcoin.
BOSTON (Reuters) -Data Center Alley, a 30-square-mile stretch outside Washington D.C. and home to more than 200 data centers, consumes roughly the same electricity as Boston. So power company officials were alarmed when a big chunk of those centers - 60 of them - suddenly dropped off the grid one day last summer and switched to on-site generators.
A sprawling new mine is gouged into the lush rolling hills of northeast Myanmar, where civil war has weakened the government's already feeble writ and pollution levels are rising downstream in Thailand.
CHIANG RAI, Thailand: A sprawling new mine is gouged into the lush rolling hills of northeast Myanmar, where civil war has weakened the government's already feeble writ, and pollution levels are rising downstream in Thailand.
ADDIS ABABA, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Ethiopia has generated record export revenue during the first 11 months of the current fiscal year, driven by strong performance in major export commodities, the Ministry of Trade and Regional Integration disclosed on Thursday.
Here's a look at the news highlights from Asean countries in the Star-AseanPlus section for Wednesday (June 18, 2025)
Here's a look at the news highlights from Asean countries in the Star-AseanPlus section for Thursday (June 12, 2025)
Three data centres squatting alongside the cruise ships and freighters in French Mediterranean port Marseille are testing water-saving cooling methods by pumping out an old coal mine.
China accounted for roughly a fifth of the bitcoin network’s hash rate at the end of 2021, after data showed it dropped to zero in July. Data from the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index suggests miners covered their tracks with overseas proxies until they deemed it safe.
Here's a look at the news highlights from Asean countries in the Star-AseanPlus section for Wednesday (June 11, 2025)
(Reuters) - The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on Wednesday that it will provisionally start collecting the electricity consumption data from U.S. cryptocurrency mining companies.
U.S. technology companies are pursuing energy assets held by bitcoin miners as they race to secure a shrinking supply of electricity for their rapidly expanding artificial intelligence and cloud computing data centers. Those data centers are driving the fastest U.S. power demand growth since the start of the millennium, outpacing grid expansions and leaving giant technology companies, like Amazon and Microsoft, to scavenge for vast amounts of electricity.
