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SpaceX’s IPO filing reveals Musk’s clean energy contradiction. xAI burns gas while Tesla sells solar.

The SpaceX IPO prospectus, filed on Wednesday, contains a vision for terawatt-scale space-based solar power. It also reveals, through what it does not say, that Elon Musk’s AI company xAI is running its data centres on unregulated natural gas turbines, with plans to buy $2.8 billion more. Tesla, the company Musk built on the promise […]

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This new app scans your clothes for PFAS, microplastics, and hidden toxins

  Most health-conscious consumers have already ditched plastic containers, switched to filtered water, and overhauled their skincare routines. Clothing, however, remains a stubborn blind spot, and a new app called Wove wants to change that. Launched this week, Wove bills itself as the first mobile app that scans everyday garments for PFAS, microplastic shedding potential, […]

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Omnia and Casa dos Ventos sign $2bn power deal anchoring TikTok’s Brazil data centre

The Pátria-controlled data-centre developer is buying renewable power from Brazil’s largest independent generator to underwrite a 200 MW campus in Pecém, the first ByteDance facility in Latin America. Omnia, the Pátria Investimentos-backed data-centre developer, has signed a roughly $2bn energy-supply agreement with Casa dos Ventos, Brazil’s largest independent renewable-power generator, according to Reuters. The contract […]

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NextEra agrees $67bn all-stock deal for Dominion in largest power acquisition ever

The all-stock takeover, the largest power acquisition ever, gives NextEra the utility that runs Northern Virginia’s data-centre belt and consolidates the bidding power on the demand side of the AI-electricity trade. NextEra Energy has agreed to acquire Dominion Energy for about $67bn in an all-stock deal, Bloomberg reported on Monday, in what would be the […]

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Lodestellar is a €7 EPD quality tool helping manufacturers win multi-million euro tenders

The era of greenwashing may be coming to an end, at least in the construction sector where manufacturers are embracing a low cost tool to support data-driven transparency about their environmental impacts. “We’ve seen that manufacturers are increasingly keen to ditch vague eco slogans and self-declared green certificates, which were never really very effective,” says […]

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The recycling industry loses 40 per cent of its workers every year. A humanoid robot trained by VR headsets is the replacement plan.

The recycling industry has a labour problem that no amount of recruitment can solve. Staff turnover at waste sorting facilities runs at 40 per cent annually. The fatality rate is eight times the national average across all industries. Work-related injury and ill-health runs 45 per cent higher than other sectors. The work involves standing beside […]

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Fervo Energy launches $1.33bn IPO, the largest climate-tech listing of 2026

On Monday, Fervo Energy formally launched its IPO roadshow, offering 55,555,555 shares of Class A common stock at an indicated range of $21 to $24 each. At the high end of the range, the geothermal-energy developer would raise as much as $1.33bn and become the largest climate-tech IPO of 2026 to date. The company has […]

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Denmark built Europe’s cleanest grid. AI data centres are overloading it.

  Denmark generates more than 80 per cent of its electricity from renewable sources. Its wind farms, both onshore and offshore, have made the country a global model for clean energy transition. Its grid operator, Energinet, has spent decades building the infrastructure to support a decarbonised power system. In March, Energinet paused all new grid […]

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Australia’s $22 billion answer to the question the Hormuz crisis asked

When Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz on 27 March, following weeks of US and Israeli air strikes, Brent crude hit $126 a barrel and the World Bank warned that energy prices would surge by 24 per cent, the largest increase since the Russia-Ukraine shock of 2022. For most oil-importing nations, this was an economic […]

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Decade Energy raises €22M to build power infrastructure for electric truck depots across Europe

The round is split between €16M from Eiffel Investment Group for project deployment and €6M led by SET Ventures for product and expansion, alongside existing investors Ananda Impact Ventures and Contrarian Ventures. The company targets 100MW+ of BESS projects across France, with Germany, the Nordics, and Poland to follow. Decade Energy, the Paris-based company building […]

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