Nuclear power startups have been pitching themselves as the antidote to what ails AI data centers: power that’s always available. Bill Gates-founded TerraPower is one…
Author: Tim De Chant
Exclusive: Inertia Enterprises finds a way to make its fusion fuel fast |
Fusion startup Inertia Enterprises said it has found a way to cut the time it takes to make its fuel pellets from several days to…
Anthro Energy breaks ground on factory that could pave the road to solid-state batteries |
Anthro Energy broke ground on Tuesday on a factory in Louisville, Kentucky, that can make enough battery materials for more than 300,000 electric vehicles. But…
Sound-powered fire protection startup gets $15M to snuff out fires before they turn catastrophic |
For over a century, fire protection has been limited to water and chemicals. And while they can prevent catastrophic fires, the cleanup bills can be…
Exclusive: Hyperscalers might regret embracing natural gas if new forecast proves correct |
After years of snapping up wind and solar developments, hyperscalers like Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft are betting that natural gas will power the data…
Tesla wants to build a $10B solar factory in Texas |
In Brief Posted: 9:18 AM PDT · August 12, 2026 Tesla intends to build a massive solar panel factory 45 minutes southwest of Houston, according…
Form Energy raises $750M to build more 100-hour batteries for the grid |
Battery startup Form Energy said on Wednesday that it has raised $750 million to expand its manufacturing capacity in West Virginia, the latest sign that…
Exclusive: Kyoto Fusioneering starts work on key fusion power plant device |
In the fusion power world, most of the attention gets lavished on the reactors themselves, where atoms fuse to unleash enormous amounts of energy. But…
SpaceX's Terafab will rely on natural gas power plants, not Tesla solar panels |
7:07 AM PDT · August 7, 2026 SpaceX said this week that it will build natural gas power plants to supply electricity to the Terafab…
Trump administration has spent nearly $4B to cancel offshore wind farms |
The Trump administration is paying another $1.2 billion to cancel an offshore wind lease, this time to German utility RWE. The energy company said in…