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AI’s land rush is reaching Native American reservations

The scramble to build AI data centres is pushing developers toward Native American land. Indigenous-led group Honor the Earth says it is tracking more than 100 proposed projects on or near tribal and rural territory. The appeal for developers is practical. Large land-based tribes often have space, water rights, and power access, and reservations can offer tax […]

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Squeezed on land, Samsung wants to put data centres out to sea

As data centres run into unhappy neighbours and water limits on land, Samsung wants to float them offshore. Samsung Heavy Industries plans to launch its first floating data centre by 2028, Seoul Economic Daily reported. It would be a purpose-built barge parked near the coast. The design is specific. Rather than convert an old ship, […]

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A £35bn plan to fill the UK with 14 mini nuclear reactors

A Polish billionaire has laid out plans to build a fleet of small nuclear reactors across Britain, at an estimated £35bn, TechRadar reported. Michał Sołowow’s firm, SGE, says it wants to install 14 GE Vernova Hitachi BWRX-300 reactors on three UK sites. It is targeting first power in 2034. The numbers are large. Together the […]

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Meta’s AI campus flushed a rare bacterium into Cheyenne’s water. The city hit back

A Meta contractor flushed a rare, potentially deadly bacterium into Cheyenne’s wastewater system. The Wyoming city has now suspended all data centre discharge, a fresh flashpoint in the fight over AI’s thirst for water. Officials in Cheyenne, Wyoming, have stopped accepting industrial wastewater from data centres. The trigger was a contractor building Meta’s new AI […]

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Londoners fight a Brick Lane datacentre, and it is not even for AI

Residents in east London are fighting a datacentre planned for Brick Lane, saying the site should hold homes, not servers. The twist: it would serve high-frequency trading, not AI. Britain’s datacentre backlash has reached the heart of east London. Residents around Brick Lane oppose a plan for the old Truman Brewery site. It would put […]

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Scotland could freeze new datacentres, threatening the UK’s AI plan

Scotland’s governing party wants to freeze every new datacentre in the country. If ministers agree, a core pillar of the UK’s AI strategy could stall. The Scottish government is weighing a sweeping moratorium on new datacentres. Last Sunday, the Scottish National Party (SNP) voted to freeze all new builds, the Guardian reports. The motion now […]

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Quaise raises $134M to drill superhot rock with microwaves

Geothermal used to mean shallow wells and modest heat. Quaise wants to drill kilometres down and blast the rock with microwaves, and it just raised $134 million to try. Quaise Energy has raised $134 million to drill for superhot rock deep underground, Bloomberg reports. Prelude Ventures led the first close of the Series B, the […]

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Beyond wires and batteries: Voltify’s new model for freight rail electrification

Freight rail is often described as the most energy-efficient way to move goods over land, yet it still runs on one of the dirtiest inputs in modern infrastructure: diesel. As rail operators face mounting pressure from volatile fuel costs, tightening emissions rules, and aging locomotive fleets, the question is no longer whether rail should decarbonize, but how. One […]

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Realta Fusion lights bulbs straight from its reactor, a commercial first

Fusion’s hard problem was making more energy than you put in. The next one is turning that energy into cheap electricity. A Wisconsin startup says it has taken a first step, by lighting a few bulbs straight from its reactor. The company is Realta Fusion. On 30 June it announced the first demonstration of direct […]

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Schneider Electric buys industrial-AI firm Cognite for $3.1bn

Schneider Electric is buying Cognite, a Norwegian-founded industrial AI company, for $3.1bn in cash. The French group wants software that can make factories and power grids think for themselves. Schneider Electric said on June 30, 2026 that it had agreed to acquire all of Cognite in an all-cash deal worth $3.1bn. Cognite builds software that […]

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