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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
Utilities No Longer Plan Grids Around Historical Demand
Season 2026
New IRP filings from 23 U.S. utilities show a shift to scenario-based forecasting as data centers drive demand, raising planning risk for facilities …
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Who Owns the Future: Community Power in the Age of AI
Season 2026
When the first-quarter numbers on America's data center backlash arrived this spring, they showed that at least 20 proposed data centers were cancele…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Viridi Breaks Ground on Lincoln Landfill RNG Facility
Season 2026
Viridi Energy, backed by Warburg Pincus, began construction on a landfill gas-to-RNG facility in Lincoln, Nebraska, under a city build-own-operate co…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Rolls-Royce Expands Mankato Backup Power Production Capacity
Season 2026
Rolls-Royce has opened a $24M Mankato facility to expand backup power output. The center will support data centers and other critical infrastructure …
3 months, 2 weeks ago