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Inner Mongolia signs $27bn of AI computing projects

Inner Mongolia signed 12 green computing projects worth 186.46 billion yuan on Saturday, about $27.49bn. It also broke ground on a platform to sell Chinese AI services abroad. The state news agency Xinhua reported both from Hohhot, the regional capital. The conference that hosted the signings was held on the Cilechuan Grassland. China builds the […]

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Nvidia has bought into a third land and power company this month

Nvidia took a minority stake in Cloverleaf Infrastructure on Friday. Cloverleaf secures land and electricity for data centres. It is the third company of that kind Nvidia has bought into in quick succession, according to The Information. Neither company disclosed terms. The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday morning that Nvidia was expected to invest […]

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A 60-year-old geothermal company just became an AI infrastructure play

Ormat, a geothermal company founded six decades ago, has signed a power purchase agreement with Google for up to 150MW in Nevada and is running enhanced geothermal pilots with Sage Geosystems and SLB. Europe has the same demand problem and is meeting it with restraint rather than contracts. A company that has been drilling for […]

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Fairphone’s most repairable phone yet is now available in the US at $650

Fairphone is selling directly in the United States for the first time, with the $650 Gen 6+ and its twelve user-replaceable parts. The Dutch company is entering a market with no equivalent of the EU repairability rules that took effect last year. Fairphone is selling in the United States directly for the first time. The […]

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Scrapping your petrol car for An EV pays back In three years

Research published in Science finds that scrapping a petrol car in its first year and replacing it with a battery electric vehicle cuts emissions by 58% over 16 years, with carbon payback in about three years. The benefit does not hold for efficient hybrids, very low-mileage vehicles or the dirtiest electricity grids. Retiring a petrol […]

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Google and the UK will steer planes around contrails over the Atlantic

The UK government and Google are launching a trial to steer aircraft around climate-warming contrails. Google announced Operation Blue Skies on Tuesday. It is the first such effort across an entire ocean airspace. AI forecasts will predict where contrails form over the North Atlantic, and controllers will nudge planes to avoid those patches of sky. […]

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Nvidia is not backing OpenAI’s rent. It is backing the buildings

A residual value guarantee is a promise about an object, not about a tenant. Someone builds a thing. Someone else rents it. A third party promises the thing itself will still be worth a set amount. If the renter walks, the owner relets or sells. The guarantor covers only the shortfall. It is the structure […]

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Pipeline for $165 Billion Oracle Data Center Delayed to Next Year

The Green Chile pipeline that would fuel Oracle’s Project Jupiter data centre in New Mexico has been pushed from 15 August to 1 February 2027, according to a filing by Energy Transfer’s Transwestern unit. The state land commissioner has twice refused the route, citing water use and emissions. The pipeline that would fuel Oracle’s largest […]

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Europe built the world’s largest electric plane. It flew in New York

Heart Aerospace flew its X1 demonstrator at Plattsburgh International Airport on 12 August, the company announced. The aircraft taxied, took off, climbed, manoeuvred and landed. It reached 335 metres, and its all-electric propulsion produced more than one megawatt. The airframe explains the record. The X1 has a wingspan of about 32 metres, runs 23 metres […]

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Omdia says phone prices will stay high after the shortage ends

Start with the number, because it is the kind that settles an argument. In the first quarter of 2026, panel makers shipped 298 million displays into the refurbished phone market. They shipped 289 million to the companies that make new phones. The refurbished figure was up 20% year on year, according to Omdia. The two […]

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