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VEIR raises $110M to swap copper for superconductors in AI data centres

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VEIR has raised $110 million in a Series C round. The Massachusetts company makes superconducting power cables for AI data centres. Matter Venture Partners and Tyche Partners co-led the round, which VEIR called oversubscribed. LG Technology Ventures, Gates Frontier, Sabanci Climate Ventures and Hui Capital joined as new investors. Existing backers also took part, including […]

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Voltus raises $225M to turn homes and batteries into power for data centres

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Voltus has raised $225 million in a Series D round. The San Francisco company pays businesses and homes to cut, shift or supply power when the grid needs it. Generation Investment Management led the round, with Activate Capital and the energy trader Vitol as co-leads. Broadscale Group, Climate Investment, NGP, Ajax Strategies and All Aboard […]

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San Francisco pauses new data centres in the hometown of AI

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San Francisco’s board of supervisors unanimously passed a 45-day moratorium on new data centres, extendable to 22 months, halting a Bayview expansion and a 49.5 MW Dogpatch project. Europe paused first and for a different reason, the grid, and now finds it cannot build the capacity the Commission wants. San Francisco has paused new data […]

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Honda will test wireless EV charging on 300 metres of motorway in 2027

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Honda will test wireless charging built into a 300-metre stretch of Japanese motorway from next year, delivering up to 150 kW to vehicles moving at 120 km/h, aimed first at commercial vehicles. France, Germany and Sweden have been running or planning electric roads since 2022, and the French A10 project already delivers more than 200 […]

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Finland orders Google to stop clearing forest at two data centre sites

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Finland’s Licensing and Supervision Agency (LVV) has ordered Google’s Finnish subsidiary to stop work at two planned data centre sites, in Muhos and Kajaani. The halt covers work that significantly changes the environment. The agency issued the order on Tuesday. Tuike Finland Oy must stop at once, and by 23 October at the latest. The […]

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Cheaper EVs are fuelling Europe’s electric car boom, and the rules behind them are up for revision

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Battery-electric sales in the EU reached 1.64 million in the first eight months of 2026, up 45%, with 16 models under EUR 25,000 due on sale by the end of the year. Transport and Environment says the version of the 2035 target proposed by Parliament’s rapporteur would cut sales of those cheap models by nearly […]

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Reclinker raises £10m to turn demolition waste back into cement

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Reclinker, a startup that turns demolition waste back into cement, has raised £10m in a Series A round. It will use the money to move from trials to full commercial production in Cardiff. The company said on Monday that its process cuts cement’s emissions in half, at the same cost as conventional cement. Clean Growth […]

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China wants solid-state batteries in use by 2030, and CATL rates them four out of nine

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China’s industry ministry and six other agencies set 2030 as the date for the first large-scale use of all-solid-state batteries, though CATL’s chairman rates the technology four out of nine and calls million-vehicle use before 2030 very unlikely. ProLogium’s Dunkirk plant, the largest new European cell project since Northvolt went bankrupt, is staged at 0.8 […]

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Alibaba in early talks with Spain’s Solaria over power for a data centre

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Alibaba has held preliminary talks with Spanish solar producer Solaria about supplying power for a data centre at Puertollano, south of Madrid. Spain is drafting rules that would require data centre operators to be established in the EU and keep all data inside European borders. Alibaba has held talks with a Spanish solar producer that […]

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America isn’t short of electricity. It’s short of places to plug in fast enough.

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On 22 July 2026, the Texas grid set an all-time record. Demand reached about 91 gigawatts on a punishing summer evening and the system met it, roughly half from natural gas and a third from solar. Nothing broke. Yet much of the discussion around artificial intelligence and electricity suggests a looming shortage. American data centers used about 176 terawatt-hours […]

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