Big Tech is on a charm offensive to get its data centres built

ADAC tested five EVs for charging losses. One wasted a quarter of the energy

California’s new tyre standard is stricter than Europe’s, which has had one since 2012

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

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

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

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

Europe’s drought is shutting down nuclear reactors

OpenAI is hiring a power trader, because electricity is now a position on its books

Meta is giving $1bn to data centre towns. Its proof is a tax from 1968

Anthropic is getting a fleet of data centres. Someone else is paying to build them

A shipbuilder just sold $674M of engines to run America’s AI data centres

Data-centre bans top 500 as New York and Texas join the pushback

Amazon’s new Texas data centre could become America’s biggest single polluter. It will not touch the grid.

Texas called itself the “epicenter of AI.” Now it won’t plug in a data centre until it’s audited

Toyota to roll out next-generation hybrid batteries in 2027 as it targets 5 million hybrid sales

Amsterdam startup Ore Energy raises $43 million to build iron-air batteries that store power for days

EVgo is putting 500 new fast chargers in the parking lots of American shopping centres

OpenAI flew influencers to a nature resort to fix its image. The internet called it greenwashing.

The AI boom runs on metal. A two-year-old startup just raised $310m to mine it, autonomously, on US soil.

Solar hit a record 14.4% of UK electricity in July. Plug-in solar kits become legal on August 27.

The car industry made one bet on electric. In 2026 it splintered into several.

The US golf cart market hit $5 billion, and now Fiat and Microlino are chasing the same buyers

Fusion’s best-funded bet raised another $1bn, and hired the banker who took Moderna public

Lava Tokenization Sandbox Gives Electric Blue the Infrastructure for a €500M Rollout in Germany

The AI boom needs power and rockets. Trump just exempted both from environmental law.

Australia’s world-first data centre rules need every state to agree. Two just said no.

Fujifilm is raising camera prices by up to €500. The AI memory crisis has reached photography.

Cambridge built a planet-scale AI model, and skipped Nvidia to do it

Inside the data centres powering AI: gold racks, demented noise, and 40 diesel generators

OpenAI plans a $30bn Georgia data centre, and a charm offensive to match

Europe’s EV market share tops 25 percent for the first time as June registrations surge nearly 40 percent

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

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

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