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

A rare bird appeared in Brazil. AI had put it there.

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

France thinks cheap power is its AI edge. Now it must decide who plugs in

AI’s land rush is reaching Native American reservations

Squeezed on land, Samsung wants to put data centres out to sea

A £35bn plan to fill the UK with 14 mini nuclear reactors

Meta’s AI campus flushed a rare bacterium into Cheyenne’s water. The city hit back

Londoners fight a Brick Lane datacentre, and it is not even for AI

Scotland could freeze new datacentres, threatening the UK’s AI plan

Quaise raises $134M to drill superhot rock with microwaves

Omen AI raises $31m to watch the water inside AI data centres

China wants its green power wired straight into the data centre

Congress wants Big Tech to pay AI’s power bills

Neel Somani breaks down the key factors behind East Coast power price spikes

Microsoft turns to Chevron’s gas to power a Texas data centre

A city hit pause on AI data centres. Amazon responded by investigating its own engineers.

FERC orders a fast lane for data centre grid connections, but the electricity to fill them is another matter

The bottleneck in geothermal moved from the drill to the turbine. This SpaceX alum raised $22M to fix it

Helion just got the world’s first licences to run a fusion power plant

Mississippi residents file a 10,000-strong class action against Musk’s xAI and SpaceX over data-centre noise

Munich startup ERC System unveils Victor, a heavy-lift cargo eVTOL, at ILA Berlin

From cars to data centres, GM pushes into energy storage with three new battery deals

Vertical Aerospace gets a second VX4 flying, doubling its test fleet on the road to certification

A Florida startup is building a thorium fuel supply chain from scratch, starting with an Australian mine