German energytech unicorn 1KOMMA5° has reached a valuation of $1.35 billion in its latest financing round as it prepares to increase investment in its AI-powered energy management business. The Hambur…
The startup says its fuel cells are super efficient and cut fuel costs during a time when the tech industry can’t get enough electricity.
Google’s 890 MW nuclear deal shows carbon-free firm power is becoming a geographic edge, leaving the 22 states without reactors behind in the AI power race.
Google announced a new agreement to update six nuclear power plant sites across the US as the tech giant seeks to generate more electricity for its power-hungry data centers. Google signed the 20-year deal with Constellation, the leading nuclear power plant operator in the US. The power purchase agreement is meant to guarantee the revenue […]
Scaling breakthrough technology takes more than funding, it takes financial choreography. The right capital, at the right stage, in the right order.
This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at a limiting factor for Tesla’s Semi and The Ocean Cleanup’s push to deploy hundreds of plastic trash interceptors.
A Vienna startup and Helsinki’s utility plan to heat 70,000 apartments with waste heat from AI chips. Can data centers become a city’s furnace?
San Antonio City Councilmember Ric Galvan remembers when data centers first arrived in his city in the 2000s, looking like relatively unassuming office buildings. But that’s changed in recent years, as data centers have grown into massive “hyperscale” facilities spanning millions of square feet and housing the physical infrastructure for AI. There are now more […]
Dielectric metasurfaces have moved to the forefront of nanophotonics, offering flat, low-loss alternatives to conventional bulk optical elements for controlling the amplitude, phase, and polarization of light. These structures are of growing interest …
Google is funding a PG&E virtual power plant of 21,000 home devices totaling 11 MW, testing whether homes can make room on the grid for AI demand.