Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTobacco Waste Shifts as Vapes and Pouches Reach U.S. Beaches
Season 2026
Cigarette butts still lead coastal litter totals. Disposable vapes and nicotine pouches now add batteries, plastics and hazardous residues to this wa…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
New Hampshire Mandates Transformer Vulnerability Study
Season 2026
New Hampshire has signed a law directing its Department of Energy to assess transformer vulnerability to geomagnetic and electromagnetic disturbances…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Intel Cuts Data Center Group Jobs as AI Spending Climbs
Season 2026
Intel is cutting Data Center Group jobs even as AI infrastructure spending is set to reach $487 billion in 2026, per IDC, as electricity demand keeps…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Maryland Court Vacates Fee Award in Data Center Records Case
Season 2026
Maryland's Supreme Court vacated a $25,000 fee award in a records case that exposed secret Frederick County talks with Amazon over data center rezoni…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Australia Builds Its AI Grid Without a Nuclear Option
Season 2026
Australia's data center load is surging, but federal law excludes nuclear power from a grid plan built around renewables, storage, transmission and g…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Four Advanced Nuclear Reactors Beat DOE's July 4 Target
Season 2026
Four U.S. advanced reactor experiments reached criticality by a July 4 target, producing new data on how quickly designs can move from construction t…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Gyre Energy Raises $1.3M to Scale Cold Storage Cooling Tech.
Season 2026
Gyre Energy has secured $1.3 million to expand its AI cooling platform. A major cold-chain project could test whether earlier savings continue at gre…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
UNESCO Finds Science Governance Lagging Innovation
Season 2026
UNESCO's first Science Decade report finds governance-focused research trailing innovation by over 3 to 1, a gap it says is raising technology deploy…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Air Liquide Commits Over $530M to Three U.S. Gas Plants
Season 2026
Air Liquide announced three U.S. industrial gas investments in July 2026 totaling over $530 million, tied to semiconductor and chemical manufacturing…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Ireland's Grid Now Asks Which Data Centers Are Credible
Season 2026
Ireland's CRU now requires data center developers to prove a credible renewable energy plan before connecting, replacing a broad regional grid approa…
3 months, 2 weeks ago