The Chevron Microsoft gas deal hands the oil major a 20-year contract to power a giant West Texas data centre. For a company that built its AI plans on renewables and nuclear, that is a sharp turn. Chevron will power one of the largest data centres in …
A new geothermal player. Upgrading the grid with wood veneers. How drones are leveling the military playing field. All that and more in this week’s Prototype.
Can second-life EV batteries save the grid from AI? Explore how data centers are repurposing electric vehicle batteries to solve exploding power demands.
The backlash against AI data centres used to be a local zoning story. This week, it became a fight inside Amazon. Three Amazon engineers, Patrick Schloesser, Darius Irani and Liesl Wigand, say the company placed them under investigation after they test…
With temperatures set to soar again in Europe, the link between heatwaves and air pollution is back under the spotlight.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday ordered six major grid operators to fast-track interconnection requests from data centres and other large electricity users. Under the directive, approved unanimously, grid operators must demonstrate…
Amazon is ramping up its use of disaster response technology to reach communities faster during a hurricane or other big event.
For years, the scarce resource in AI was chips. Now it is power. Verse Enterprises wants to unblock that bottleneck. The San Francisco startup has raised an oversubscribed $54mn Series B. Bessemer Venture Partners led the round. GV, Nvidia and Norrsken…
Kiss the Ground’s new research in the past 12 months shows regenerative knowledge reaches 13%
The European Union’s energy chief has told the AI industry it is welcome in Europe, but only on the bloc’s terms. In an interview with Politico, Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen said companies must demonstrate commitment to the EU’s energy, climate, a…