Energy
Anthropic to spend $50 billion on U.S. AI infrastructure, starting with Texas, New York data centers
Anthropic announced plans Wednesday to spend $50 billion on a U.S. artificial intelligence infrastructure build-out, starting with custom data centers in Texas and New York. The facilities, which will be designed to support the company’s rapid enterprise growth and its long-term research agenda, will be developed in partnership with Fluidstack. Fluidstack is an AI cloud […]
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British utility SSE seeks to raise $2.7 billion for grid investments, shares soar
The chief executive of British power firm SSE says a rapid build-out of renewable projects can help the U.K. to secure its energy security and bring costs down for consumers. Lindsey Parnaby | Afp | Getty Images British utility SSE unveiled a 33 billion pound five-year investment plan on Wednesday, including a 2 billion pound […]
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‘Godfathers of wind’ raise alarm as Trump urges countries to abandon climate fight
US President Donald Trump (L), backdropped by Turbines at the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre, also known as the Aberdeen Bay Wind Farm, walks on the first fairway after playing off the first tee to officially open the Trump International Golf Links course in Balmedie, Aberdeenshire, north east Scotland on July 29, 2025. Brendan Smialowski […]
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How the explosives shortage could make everyday items even more expensive
The United States is facing a shortage of TNT, a high explosive that is essential to the manufacturing of commercial explosives products, like cast boosters, which are commonly used in the mining and construction industries, according to the Institute of Makers of Explosives, or IME. “Everything from your cellphone to your laptop to the roads […]
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New U.S. nuclear power boom begins with old, still-unsolved problem: What to do with radioactive waste
Castor containers for high-level radioactive waste. Ina Fassbender | Afp | Getty Images Nuclear power is back, largely due to the skyrocketing demand for electricity, including big tech’s hundreds of artificial intelligence data centers across the country and the reshoring of manufacturing. But it returns with an old and still-unsolved problem: storing all of the […]
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Google’s decade-long bet on custom chips is turning into company’s secret weapon in AI race
Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Nvidia has established itself as the undisputed leader in artificial intelligence chips, selling large quantities of silicon to most of the world’s biggest tech companies en route to a $4.5 trillion market cap. One of Nvidia’s key clients is Google, which has been loading up on the chipmaker’s […]
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China’s key weapons in its AI battle with the U.S. — massive Huawei chip clusters and cheap energy
China is focusing on large language models in the artificial intelligence space. Blackdovfx | Istock | Getty Images It’s well known that Chinese semiconductors designed for artificial intelligence cannot compete with the American firm Nvidia. Yet, China has managed to continue developing highly advanced AI models, with many being run on homegrown chips. China’s secret? […]
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Robinhood doubles revenue as it beats third-quarter earnings expectations
Robinhood beat Wall Street expectations for the third quarter on Wednesday, extending a hot streak that has made it one of the biggest large-cap U.S. tech stocks this year. Here is how Robinhood’s results compared to Wall Street estimates, according to analysts surveyed by LSEG: Earnings per share: 61cents vs. 53 cents expected Revenue: $1.27 […]
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Trump nuclear power investment in Westinghouse could lead to IPO with U.S. government as shareholder
The Vogtle nuclear power plant is located in Burke County, near Waynesboro, Georgia in USA. Each of the two existing units have a Westinghouse pressurized water reactor (PWR), with a General Electric turbine and electric generator, producing approximately 2,400 MW of electricity. Two Westinghouse made AP 1000 reactors are under construction here. Pallava Bagla | […]
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Fossil fuel leaders herald the energy addition era: ‘Music to my ears’
Guests look at a model of the largest data center in the UAE under construction in Abu Dhabi as the Stargate initiative, a joint venture between G42, Microsoft, and OpenAI, during the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference (ADIPEC) in Abu Dhabi on November 3, 2025. (Photo by Giuseppe CACACE / AFP) (Photo by […]
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