Most of the money pouring into small nuclear reactors is chasing AI data centres. This round is chasing a date. Antares has raised $470mn, co-led by Paradigm and Caffeinated Capital, with Point72 Ventures, Shine Capital and Industrious Ventures joining…
This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at why Tesla’s founders are backing an anti-Cybertruck and Sila’s expanding production of silicon battery anodes.
Founders Jesse Schiller and Rachel Evans, have dealt with volatile tariffs, choosing to absorb them rather than pass them on. They’re still on track to grow the business.
While renewable energy is expanding more than ever, the infrastructure impact on key species like bats and birds, as well as sensitive habitats are often overlooked.
Microsoft, Meta, Google and Amazon are betting billions on nuclear power to fuel AI data centers—reviving an industry stalled for 40 years.
Electric vehicle owners are happier with their cars than drivers of combustion vehicles in nearly every category measured, according to JD Power’s 2026 Automotive Performance, Execution, and Layout study released this week. The survey of 78,514 owners …
Meta has withdrawn from RE100, the global corporate clean energy initiative it joined a decade ago as Facebook, after the Climate Group confirmed the company can no longer meet the programme’s technical criteria. The departure follows Meta’s commitment…
The AI industry runs on Nvidia. A team at the University of Cambridge has just shown it does not have to. They have built a planetary-scale foundation model for the Earth, and every chip that trained and ran it came from AMD. The model is called TESSER…
AI can seem like magic, a voice from a phone, an answer from nowhere. Step inside the buildings that make it, and the magic evaporates. What is left is noise, heat, metal, and an enormous appetite for power. Axios’s Amy Harder toured a test server hall…
Self-driving cars are often depicted as “just more cars” and thus bad news for cities and transit. But what if self-driving could be the salvation of transit?