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Auto-curated on July 30, 2026: 30 stories from 5 sources. In focus: data centers & compute (15), renewables & storage (8), AI (7).
It should come as a surprise to no one that the Chinese government is intent on leading continuing to lead on connected vehicles and electric vehicles, but the industry got a strong indication of support this week from the head of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technol…
In June 2024, a small company called Zanskar purchased a geothermal power plant in New Mexico that was failing fast. The water coming from the underground reservoir was getting colder by the day, making the plant uneconomical to run. Now, two years later, that plant is running a…
Most decarbonization scenarios stop at 2050 because policy targets do. Steel mills, aircraft fleets, ports, electricity grids and industrial supply chains do not. A pathway can reach net zero in a target-year spreadsheet while leaving behind an energy system that is expensive, p…
The Jackson, Michigan-based company said the move would simplify its corporate structure, net about $500 million and set it up to generate nearly all of its earnings from its regulated utilities after 2027.
Agreement will run for five years
500,000 sq ft building due live next year
Also has working agreements in the Netherlands and Germany
As data center capacity expands and computing densities increase, thermal management is becoming one of the industry’s most critical challenges
As data center power density climbs, successful infrastructure planning depends on understanding how power availability, cooling strategy, and deployment timelines influence one another
Company looks to develop site previously earmarked for Amazon campus
NextEra to build natural gas and battery energy storage systems to support campus
Site available for $1.1m, pitched as ready for conversion to data center
Funding construction of 270MW campus
New pod still in development, could launch next year
Sky47 also targeting data centers in Karachi and Lahore
Comes just months after AI startup raised $650m
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Samsung’s chip workers are jumping ship to rival SK Hynix Lee, an engineer at Samsung’s semiconductor division, used to work late. But lately…
Utility associations supported the 2024 efficiency requirements for distribution transformers and oppose their repeal. The rule may threaten national security, DOE says.
It feels bad enough when an open letter signed by leading economists warns that AI might steal your job. The fact it may soon be better than you at making dinner? Insult to injury. But that’s exactly what the company 1X promised when it showed off a pair of new, impressively dex…
Puget Sound Energy’s proposal seeks major rate increases and costly new gas infrastructure. SEATTLE — Climate, environmental, and social justice organizations filed testimony today urging the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (UTC) to reduce the proposed rate hi…
Indiana — Governor Braun has released an executive order to extend Indiana coal plants as Big Tech continues to propose new AI data center projects to the state. Braun’s executive order directs the state’s Secretary of Energy and Natural Resources to look for opportunities to re…
First Authorized Data Center on Public Lands Would Harm Environment, Local Community LAS VEGAS — The Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club Toiyabe Chapter today filed an administrative appeal challenging federal approval of the Townsite Data Center in Boulder City,…
I’m traveling around Cape Cod, Massachusetts this week. It’s part of a quest to learn how other communities outside my permanent Florida residence are looking ahead to a clean energy and nature-based future. Cape Cod is geographically rare. It is a constantly changing peninsula,…
Lincoln Electric System is energizing a 3-MW/12-MWh zinc-based battery to support the Nebraska state Capitol complex and other critical infrastructure.
The US energy storage startup Viridi is among the US stakeholders deploying advanced technologies that improve resiliency while adding more distributed energy resources -- namely, wind and solar power -- to the nation's grid. The post Who Needs Natural Gas Power Plants When Grid…
Much of the economic concern around artificial intelligence (AI) is from the expectation that AI will lead to millions upon millions of job losses. Professional drivers, writers, lower-level software engineers, and even young lawyers are expected to lose their jobs en masse — or…
Legislation that’s been put on the back burner while the moratorium is in effect would require large data centers to procure at least a third of their electricity from renewable sources by 2030 and might impact those with water-intensive cooling, analyses show.
We are clearly in “the year of AI,” with this probably being the #1 topic on people’s lists, at conferences, in commercials, appearing in new company directives and rules, etc. There are some issues that are surfacing from the norms of AI and the widespread use of AI, however, t…
Regulatory complexities are thwarting innovation and keeping electricity bills for the majority of Californians far too high, writes Ardi Arian, CEO of Renewable America.
FERC’s response to the proposals will likely “influence utility capital investment, data center development timelines and the allocation of reliability risks and costs,” ClearView Energy Partners said.
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