{"id":952831,"date":"2025-08-06T07:45:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T02:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=952831"},"modified":"2025-08-06T07:54:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T02:24:58","slug":"europes-old-power-plants-to-get-digital-makeover-driven-by-ai-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/06\/europes-old-power-plants-to-get-digital-makeover-driven-by-ai-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe&#8217;s old power plants to get digital makeover driven by AI boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS: Some of Europe&#8217;s ageing coal and gas fired power plants can look forward to a more high-tech future as big tech players, such as Microsoft and Amazon, seek to repurpose them as data centres, with ready-made access to power and water.<\/p>\n<p>Companies such as France&#8217;s Engie, Germany&#8217;s RWE, and Italy&#8217;s Enel are looking to benefit from a surge in AI-driven energy demand by converting old power sites into data centres and securing lucrative long-term power supply deals with their operators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS: Some of Europe&#8217;s ageing coal and gas fired power plants can look forward to a more high-tech future as big tech players, such as Microsoft and Amazon, seek to repurpose them as data centres, with ready-made access to power and water. Companies such as France&#8217;s Engie, Germany&#8217;s RWE, and Italy&#8217;s Enel are looking to benefit from a surge in AI-driven energy demand by converting old power sites into data centres and securing lucrative long-term power supply deals with their operators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-952831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}