The announcement comes as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg maintains the company’s ambitious AI strategy, which will require hefty capital investments in data centers.
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The 25-year deal would enable Chestnut Carbon to reforest 60,000 acres of land across Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas.
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Extreme weather conditions will be more common, according to the study, adding fresh urgency to a burgeoning group of climate adaptation startups.
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After more than a year of helping solar installers sell, plan, and finance panels for residential and small commercial building owners, Niko found another opportunity.
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Helion's unorthodox approach to fusion power and relative secrecy has earned it plenty of fans — and critics. But don’t count its investors among the naysayers.
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The startups and power producers that are betting big on new nuclear are vulnerable to an energy efficient AI model.
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Replacing inexpensive fossil fuels is a tall hurdle, but Lydian thinks it has cracked the problem.
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Solar farms can be completed far faster than nuclear reactors and natural gas power plants.
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To cut costs and minimize geothermal’s footprint, Bedrock drills deeper.
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Hoping to capitalize on the data center power boom, state-owned utility Santee Cooper is looking for partners to finish construction on two incomplete reactors.
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Amperesand’s technology replaces the iron cores that define old transformers with silicon carbide.
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President Trump signed an executive order that halted federal leases for offshore wind development on the outer continental shelf.
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Amazon added around 100 new renewable projects last year.
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A string of nominees all previously said that they support the practice A string of nominees all previously said that they support the controversial practice.
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Climate tech may have had a down year in 2024, but new data also shows a maturing sector with larger deal sizes. Venture investment in the climate tech sector was down 7% to $12.9 billion, $1 billion shy of 2023’s tally, according to data in a new PitchBook report. The report found that round size […]
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The news comes as tech companies ramp up their AI ambitions, adding data centers at a breakneck pace and boosting demand for power.
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Data centers are expected to continue growing at a breakneck pace, doubling their power demand by 2029, according to a new report from JLL. The industry’s expansion, fueled by the rapid growth of AI alongside the continued expansion of cloud-based services, is testing the limits of the energy sector. Some experts think that half of […]
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Using LEDs has the potential to bring down the cost of biomanufacturing, allowing such processes to make materials that previously would have been too expensive.
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Gridware's sensors listen for sounds that the company’s software has been trained to identify as different hazards to the grid.
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Deep Fission's small modular reactors would be lowered on cables down a 30-inch, one-mile deep borehole.
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