energy
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Amazon and Constellation’s 20-year Calvert Cliffs agreement backs a 190 MW nuclear uprate while keeping the plant’s power on the PJM regional grid.
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The U.S. reportedly plans a roughly $4.2 billion loan to Vistra to uprate existing nuclear plants as AI data centers drive electricity demand higher.
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Germany has taken a major step toward turning parked electric cars into working pieces of the power grid. New market-integration rules from the Bundesnetzagentur create a clearer path for batteries and bidirectional charging points to move electricity in both directions without losing the treatment available to eligible renewable power. Reuters reported that the October 1…
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A YouTube-led look at how AI helped plasma physicist Matt Landreman discover explicit counterexamples to Grad’s 59-year-old fusion-physics conjecture.
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A single Xos Hub mobile charging system has crossed a milestone that is easy to misread: it has delivered more than 1 gigawatt-hour of electricity in real commercial service. That does not mean the trailer stores 1 GWh at once. It means one mobile battery-and-charging system has cumulatively moved 1,020,143.6 kWh into vehicles across more…
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Westinghouse’s eVinci microreactor reached criticality at 663°C and a record 1,011°C peak core temperature during high-temperature testing in Nevada.
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Tesla delivered 486,532 vehicles in the third quarter of 2026, beating its company-compiled analyst consensus while producing fewer vehicles than it handed to customers and posting its second-highest quarterly energy-storage deployment. The company’s October 2 production report shows 464,391 vehicles produced, 486,532 delivered and 13.7 GWh of energy-storage products deployed during the quarter. Model 3…
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BITMAIN has pushed hydro-cooled Bitcoin mining into a smaller deployment unit with the ANTRACK AR30, a 47U cabinet designed to hold as many as 20 S23e U2H miners and handle up to 200 kW of computing load. The manufacturer’s September 22 technical release says the AR30 went on sale September 10 for $16,000 per set…
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UL Solutions has launched a new certification program for direct-to-chip liquid-cooling subassemblies used in AI data centers, creating a formal test path for cold plates, manifolds and quick disconnects before those components are integrated into complete high-density cooling systems. The September 29 announcement says the program uses UL 4501, the Outline of Investigation for Safety,…
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Samsung Electronics and five affiliates are investing $1 billion in Helix Digital Infrastructure, linking semiconductors, data centers, power, batteries, cooling and fiber in a broader AI infrastructure strategy.
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AI-generated conceptual illustration of battery storage in Australia; not a photograph or approved rendering of Stoney Creek. Energy Vault’s Stoney Creek battery project has secured New South Wales planning approval, bringing a proposed 125 MW / 1 GWh storage installation in Narrabri closer to construction. The company announced the milestone on September 29, 2026. The…
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Conceptual illustration of integrated AI infrastructure spanning power, cooling, compute and connectivity; not a photograph of a specific Helix site. Samsung and five affiliates have committed a combined $1 billion to Helix Digital Infrastructure, a KKR-backed platform built to finance and deliver the physical systems behind hyperscale AI. Samsung Electronics will provide $500 million, while…
