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Most Americans don’t want an AI data centre next door. Virginia shows why some say yes

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Americans want the AI boom. They just do not want it on their street. A new poll finds most US residents would rather not live near an AI data centre. Yet the same buildings quietly bankroll schools where they cluster. More than half of US residents, 53%, oppose building an AI data centre in their […]

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Gritt raises $32M for AI robots that bolt onto existing construction equipment to build solar farms faster

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San Francisco-based Gritt has exited stealth with just over $32 million in combined pre-seed and Series A funding to deploy AI-powered robotic systems on large-scale construction sites, starting with solar farms. The $26 million Series A was led by Obvious Ventures, with Union Square Ventures and Active Impact Investments also participating, following an earlier pre-seed […]

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Sila raises $300M to fast-track gigascale anode production and shore up US battery supply chains

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Sila, the battery materials company formerly known as Sila Nanotechnologies, has raised $300 million in a private equity round led by Atreides Management and Sutter Hill Ventures to expand its silicon anode manufacturing plant in Moses Lake, Washington. 8VC, Bessemer Venture Partners, Matrix Partners, and T Rowe Price also participated, alongside existing investors including In-Q-Tel, […]

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Kevin O’Leary says data centres use less water than golf courses. The numbers are more complicated.

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Kevin O’Leary is making the golf course argument again. The “Shark Tank” investor, whose 40,000-acre Stratos data centre project in Utah sparked protests and a governor’s executive order, told Business Insider that AI data centres consume far less water than America’s golf courses. The comparison is technically correct today. The Golf Course Superintendents Association of […]

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The Pentagon froze 155 wind projects in 24 states, claiming drones can hide in wind farms

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The Pentagon has frozen the permitting process for at least 155 new wind projects in 24 states for nearly a year, citing concerns that drones can hide among wind turbines and evade radar detection. The affected projects have a combined capacity of 44 gigawatts, four times the generation capacity of the offshore wind projects the […]

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China will tax lithium and solar batteries for the first time in a decade, but sodium batteries stay exempt

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China will impose a consumption tax on lithium-ion and solar batteries for the first time in a decade, marking a policy shift as Beijing seeks to rein in overcapacity and destructive price wars in industries it spent years subsidising into global dominance. A 2% tax on lithium-ion batteries takes effect this September, rising to 4% […]

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French startup Syntetica raised $30M to recycle the nylon fashion throws away

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A French startup has raised $30 million to tackle one of fashion’s hardest waste problems. Syntetica recycles nylon, and it can process two grades at once that the industry has long struggled to pull apart, its founder told TechCrunch. The Ecotechnologies 2 fund, managed by France’s public bank Bpifrance, led the round, worth €26.1 million. […]

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A Chinese scientist built a sodium battery that charges in 4 minutes. It could break China’s 75% lithium dependence.

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Lu Yaxiang, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Physics, has spent a decade making sodium-ion batteries commercially viable. In April, he received China’s Youth May Fourth Medal, the country’s top honour for outstanding achievers under 35, for developing a sodium metal battery that charges in roughly four minutes, retains 90% capacity […]

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Australia sets up a national Office of AI

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Australia has set up a national Office of AI. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese also promised new copyright protection for creatives, in a speech in Sydney. Albanese announced the plan on Wednesday at the University of Sydney, the Guardian reported. His government billed it as a major speech on AI. It covered copyright, data-centre rules, and […]

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Britain’s flagship AI data centre can’t get the power to switch on

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Britain wants to be an AI superpower. One of its flagship data centres cannot get the electricity to switch on. Nscale’s £2bn Essex site has the money, the planning permission, and a grid connection, but no power arriving in time. Nscale has the cash, the site, and the customer. What it does not have is […]

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