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Amazon continues renewable energy spree with 476 MW purchase
<p>Amazon’s power bill has been soaring lately as it adds data centers to deal with rising demand for AI and cloud services.</p>
Rahul Patil
Feb 42 min read
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E-fuels startup will make diamonds before powering jet planes
<p>Circularity’s process uses 40% less energy than competing CO2-to-fuel pathways.</p>
Rahul Patil
Feb 43 min read
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Meta turns to solar — again — in its data center-building boom
<p>The announcement comes as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg maintains the company’s ambitious AI strategy, which will require hefty capital investments in data centers.</p>
Rahul Patil
Jan 312 min read
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WeDoSolar pivots to B2B after stake acquired by Chinese solar giant
<p>Last year wind and solar energy overtook fossil fuels to provide 30% of the EU’s electricity. With that in the background, startups in the solar space have been riding a generational change in how we get our power. In 2022 we covered how a small B2C European startup planned to bring solar to homes via […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Jan 312 min read
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Microsoft signs massive carbon credit deal with reforestation startup Chestnut Carbon
<p>The 25-year deal would enable Chestnut Carbon to reforest 60,000 acres of land across Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas.</p>
Rahul Patil
Jan 302 min read
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Climate change ignited LA’s wildfire risk — these startups want to extinguish it
<p>Extreme weather conditions will be more common, according to the study, adding fresh urgency to a burgeoning group of climate adaptation startups.</p>
Rahul Patil
Jan 293 min read
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Solar startup Niko is building Mexico’s first virtual power plant
<p>After more than a year of helping solar installers sell, plan, and finance panels for residential and small commercial building owners, Niko found another opportunity.</p>
Rahul Patil
Jan 293 min read
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Meteomatics eyes US expansion for its enterprise-focused weather forecasting tools
<p>Martin Fengler knows a lot about the weather. Fengler got his PhD in mathematics, focused on numerical weather prediction, before working for Meteomedia AG, a network of weather stations in Switzerland and Germany. But while he knew a lot about weather forecasting from the prediction side, he realized the gaps that remained on the consumption […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Jan 293 min read
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Helion raises $425M to help build a fusion reactor for Microsoft
<p>Helion’s unorthodox approach to fusion power and relative secrecy has earned it plenty of fans — and critics. But don’t count its investors among the naysayers.</p>
Rahul Patil
Jan 284 min read
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How DeepSeek’s efficient AI could stall the nuclear renaissance
<p>The startups and power producers that are betting big on new nuclear are vulnerable to an energy efficient AI model.</p>
Rahul Patil
Jan 274 min read
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: 5 Days left to claim your 2 for 1 Passes at the lowest rate of the year
<p>The clock is ticking for one of our Super Early Bird sales! You have just 5 days left to lock in your 2 for 1 Passes at the lowest rates of the year for TechCrunch Disrupt 2025. Save up to $1,400 on two of the same individual ticket type. This limited-time offer ends this Friday, […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Jan 273 min read
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Lydian can make aviation fuel wherever there’s CO2 and electricity
<p>Replacing inexpensive fossil fuels is a tall hurdle, but Lydian thinks it has cracked the problem.</p>
Rahul Patil
Jan 274 min read
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Stargate will use solar and batteries to power $100B AI venture
<p>Solar farms can be completed far faster than nuclear reactors and natural gas power plants.</p>
Rahul Patil
Jan 242 min read
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Bedrock Energy wants geothermal to make data centers cooler and offices more comfortable
<p>To cut costs and minimize geothermal’s footprint, Bedrock drills deeper.</p>
Rahul Patil
Jan 233 min read
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Zombie nuclear reactors could be revived thanks to AI data center demand
<p>Hoping to capitalize on the data center power boom, state-owned utility Santee Cooper is looking for partners to finish construction on two incomplete reactors.</p>
Rahul Patil
Jan 222 min read
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Amperesand targets data centers as the next big customer for its solid-state transformers
<p>Amperesand’s technology replaces the iron cores that define old transformers with silicon carbide.</p>
Rahul Patil
Jan 213 min read
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Amperesand targets data centers as the next big customer for its solid-state transformers
<p>Amperesand’s technology replaces the iron cores that define old transformers with silicon carbide.</p>
Rahul Patil
Jan 213 min read
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Trump moves to sink offshore wind
<p>President Trump signed an executive order that halted federal leases for offshore wind development on the outer continental shelf.</p>
Rahul Patil
Jan 212 min read
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Trump moves to sink offshore wind
<p>President Trump signed an executive order that halted federal leases for offshore wind development on the outer continental shelf.</p>
Rahul Patil
Jan 212 min read
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Amazon bought more renewable power last year than any other company
<p>Amazon added around 100 new renewable projects last year.</p>
Rahul Patil
Jan 171 min read
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