OpenAI is hiring a power trader, because electricity is now a position on its books

Meta is giving $1bn to data centre towns. Its proof is a tax from 1968

Anthropic is getting a fleet of data centres. Someone else is paying to build them

A shipbuilder just sold $674M of engines to run America’s AI data centres

Data-centre bans top 500 as New York and Texas join the pushback

Amazon’s new Texas data centre could become America’s biggest single polluter. It will not touch the grid.

BMW challenged students to build an EV that makes more energy than it uses. They covered it in 1,700 solar cells and it works.

Toyota to roll out next-generation hybrid batteries in 2027 as it targets 5 million hybrid sales

Amsterdam startup Ore Energy raises $43 million to build iron-air batteries that store power for days

EVgo is putting 500 new fast chargers in the parking lots of American shopping centres

OpenAI flew influencers to a nature resort to fix its image. The internet called it greenwashing.

The AI boom runs on metal. A two-year-old startup just raised $310m to mine it, autonomously, on US soil.

Solar hit a record 14.4% of UK electricity in July. Plug-in solar kits become legal on August 27.

Sequoia leads $1 billion round for Valar Atomics as the nuclear startup triples its valuation to $6 billion

The US golf cart market hit $5 billion, and now Fiat and Microlino are chasing the same buyers

Fusion’s best-funded bet raised another $1bn, and hired the banker who took Moderna public

Lava Tokenization Sandbox Gives Electric Blue the Infrastructure for a €500M Rollout in Germany

The AI boom needs power and rockets. Trump just exempted both from environmental law.

Australia’s world-first data centre rules need every state to agree. Two just said no.

Fujifilm is raising camera prices by up to €500. The AI memory crisis has reached photography.

This $470mn nuclear startup is racing a presidential deadline, not the AI boom

Inside the data centres powering AI: gold racks, demented noise, and 40 diesel generators

OpenAI plans a $30bn Georgia data centre, and a charm offensive to match

Europe’s EV market share tops 25 percent for the first time as June registrations surge nearly 40 percent

Most Americans don’t want an AI data centre next door. Virginia shows why some say yes

Gritt raises $32M for AI robots that bolt onto existing construction equipment to build solar farms faster

Sila raises $300M to fast-track gigascale anode production and shore up US battery supply chains

A cloud tenant could rattle the power grid with nothing but a rented GPU, researchers say

China will tax lithium and solar batteries for the first time in a decade, but sodium batteries stay exempt

French startup Syntetica raised $30M to recycle the nylon fashion throws away

A Chinese scientist built a sodium battery that charges in 4 minutes. It could break China’s 75% lithium dependence.

Britain’s flagship AI data centre can’t get the power to switch on

Microsoft promised to be carbon negative. Its emissions just jumped 25%

Meta’s Hyperion data centre hit $50bn, and split a Louisiana town in two

Decoupling from China would cost the West $23.6tn