London-Based Energy Transactions Scale-up Tem Raises €62.9 Million Funding
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Tem, a London-based AI-native energy transactions scale-up, today announced that it has raised €62.9 million ($75 million) in an oversubscribed Series B round to accelerate UK and global rollout of its AI-native infrastructure, as it seeks to become the “…
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Sweden-Based Vesiro Raises €1.6M Funding
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Gothenburg-based Vesiro, a spinout from Chalmers University, has secured €1.6 million in seed funding. The round was supported by Chalmers Ventures, Industrifonden, Länsförsäkringar Göteborg & Bohuslän, Yuncture, First Gate Invest, E14 Invest, Mach One, a…
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WtEnergy raises €10M to decarbonise Europe’s cement and chemicals
Sofia Chesnokova / techfundingnews - Heavy industries in Europe, such as cement, paper, and chemicals, are under increasing pressure to reduce emissions and…
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New York lawmakers introduce bill that aims to halt data center development for three years
Cheyenne MacDonald / engadget - On Friday, New York State Senators Liz Krueger and Kristen Gonzales introduced a bill that would stop the issuance of permits for new data centers for at least three years and ninety days to give time for impact assessments and to update regulations. The …
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Elon Musk is getting serious about orbital data centers
Russell Brandom / techcrunch - We’re starting to see the idea of Musk-owned orbital AI data clusters cohere into an actual plan.
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Positron AI raises $230M at over $1B valuation to build energy-efficient AI accelerator hardware
Kyt Dotson / siliconangle - Positron AI, a builder of custom silicon and hardware for energy-efficient artificial intelligence inference, today announced it has raised an oversubscribed $230 million funding round at a $1 billion valuation. The Series B round was co-led by Arena Priv…
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Düsseldorf-Based Co-Reactive Raises €6.5M To Decarbonise Cement Production
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Düsseldorf-based Co-reactive, a ClimateTech startup targeting large-scale decarbonisation of the construction industry, has raised €6.5 million in Seed funding to scale its CO₂ mineralisation technology. The round was led by HTGF, with backing from NRW.Ba…
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Footprint Firm closes €76M Article 9 deeptech Fund for the green transition
Cate Lawrence / tech - The Footprint Firm has completed the final closing of Footprint Fund I, an Article 9 €76 million venture fund. The fund focuses on early-stage deeptech companies in the green transition in Northern Eu...
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Sandworm hackers linked to failed wiper attack on Poland’s energy systems
Lawrence Abrams / bleepingcomputer - A cyberattack targeting Poland's power grid in late December 2025 has been linked to the Russian state-sponsored hacking group Sandworm, which attempted to deploy a new destructive data-wiping malware dubbed DynoWiper during the attack.. [...]
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Leeds-based Optalysys raises €26.4 million to accelerate always-encrypted data technology using light
Rahul Raj / eu-startups - Leeds-based photonic computing company Optalysys today announced that it has raised €26.4 million (£23 million) in a Series A extension round to accelerate the commercialisation of its proprietary photonic chips and support US expansion. The round was led…
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OpenAI vows not to increase consumers' energy prices
Rachyl Jones / semafor - OpenAI joined Microsoft in attempting to ease consumer concerns regarding data centers’ impact on electricity bills.
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Energy Tech Startup Cloover Secures $1.2 Bn to Build AI Operating Systems for Europe
Smruthi Nadig / analyticsindiamag - Cloover aims to be a global, decentralised energy platform to deliver affordable, independent energy.The post Energy Tech Startup Cloover Secures $1.2 Bn to Build AI Operating Systems for Europe appeared first on Analytics India Magazine.
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Realme says its 10,001mAh P4 Power phone can last nearly four days
techspot - Realme's P4 Power phone will be the first to feature the company's 10,001mAh Titan silicon-carbon battery. That extra 1mAh is likely a marketing ploy to put it ahead of rival Honor, which released the 10,000mAh Honor Win in China at the end of last year.R…
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British Business Bank makes record investment in Kraken Technologies
Oscar Hornstein / uktech - The UK government-owned British Business Bank is set to make its largest-ever direct investment, £25m into the Octopus Energy spinout Kraken Technologies. Kraken was formed from within Octopus, one of the UK’s largest energy providers, as the AI technolog…
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U.S. govt says Musk's gas turbine generators for xAI aren’t exempt from permits — EPA ruling closes local loophole that allowed Musk to get power from temporary on-site power generators
tomshardware - The U.S. EPA now requires permits to operate gas turbine generators, even temporary ones, closing loopholes in some local ordinances that waived this requirement for deployments that lasted for less than 364 days.
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EPA rules that xAI’s natural gas generators were illegally used
Tim De Chant / techcrunch - Elon Musk's AI company had installed and operated 35 natural gas turbines without permits, something the EPA now says was illegal.
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M6 MacBook Pro OLED Panel Production Underway, With Samsung Initiating The Manufacturing Of These Displays Far Ahead Of Schedule
Omar Sohail / wccftech - Apple will finally introduce a significant redesign to its M6 MacBook Pro, with the company bidding farewell to mini-LED and bringing OLED technology in its place. With Samsung having years of experience under its belt in manufacturing these particular pa…
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Amsterdam’s Optics11 Raises €25M EIB Loan To Boost Europe’s Subsea And Energy Security
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - The European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed a €25 million venture debt agreement with Amsterdam-based Optics11, a DeepTech scale-up developing advanced fibre optic sensing solutions. The Dutch company will use the funding to advance research and develop…
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State and Federal Lawmakers Want Data Centers to Pay More for Energy
Ivan Penn and Karen Weise / nytimes - Many proposals have been introduced, but there is little consensus among governors, Congress members and tech executives about exactly how much the companies behind data centers should pay for electricity.
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Microsoft Vows to Pay Full Cost of AI Data Centers After White House Pressure
James Maguire / techstrong - Microsoft has moved to blunt growing public opposition to its expanding data-center footprint, pledging to absorb the full cost of the electricity, water use, and local taxes associated with its AI infrastructure. The commitments mark the company’s most s…
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