Carbonaide raises €3.7M to commercialise CO₂-curing and permanent carbon storage in concrete
Cate Lawrence / tech - Green concrete startup Carbonaide has raised €3.7 million to transform the concrete industry through carbon dioxide curing and permanent CO₂ storage. Carbonaide’s technology has been in commercial pro...
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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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2150 closes €210M Fund II, lifts assets to €500M to back urban and industrial climate tech
Cate Lawrence / tech - Venture firm 2150 today announced the final close of its €210 million second fund, bringing total assets under management to €500 million. The fund remains focused on backing technology companies se...
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Winter Storm Fern 2026: These 2 weather maps track when snow and ice storms are forecast to hit states this weekend
Michael Grothaus / fastcompany - America is on the cusp of its first major winter storm of the new year. Dubbed Winter Storm Fern, the storm is expected to begin today and last until at least Monday.As Fast Company previously reported, the nor’easter is expected to affect as many as 230 …
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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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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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Dutch VC PureTerra launches €150M water tech fund, lands €10M from Invest-NL
Sofia Chesnokova / techfundingnews - As droughts intensify and regulations tighten, companies are discovering that access to clean, reusable water directly affects their…
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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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Amazon Just Secured the First New American Copper in a Decade. Bacteria Did the Work.
Maria Garcia / implicator - AWS just became the first buyer of American-mined copper in over a decade. The source? Bacteria eating rock in an Arizona desert. As AI data centers consume 47 tonnes of copper per megawatt, Amazon is securing supply chains before the squeeze hits.
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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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Meta lines up massive supply of nuclear power to energize AI data centers
techxplore - Meta has cut a trio of deals to power its artificial intelligence data centers, securing enough energy to light up the equivalent of about 5 million homes.
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Kia’s EV2 is its smallest and most affordable EV for Europe
Andrew J. Hawkins / theverge - Kia unveiled the EV2, a small and affordably priced electric vehicle built for the European market. The EV2 made its debut at the Brussels Auto Show, where executives touted it as its "most compact" EV to date. Of course, it was another in a long line of …
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Meta signs nuclear energy deals to power Prometheus AI supercluster
cnbc - Meta said it secured agreements with energy companies Vistra, TerraPower and Oklo, which are all working on nuclear power technologies.
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Before Electric Vehicles Became Political, There Was the Toyota Prius
Lawrence Ulrich / nytimes - The political polarization of battery-powered cars may have started when Toyota released its first hybrid model 25 years ago.
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US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified
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Finnish startup Aisti secures €20M EIB loan to scale bio-based ceiling tile production
ain - Aisti is building a large-scale production facility in Kitee, Eastern Finland, set to begin manufacturing in the second half of 2026.
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Ford Ends F-150 Lightning Production, Starts Battery Storage Business
BeauHD / slashdot - Ford has effectively pulled the plug on the all-electric F-150 Lightning, pivoting away from full-size BEV pickups toward hybrids, range-extended EVs (EREVs), and even data-center battery storage. Ars Technica reports: Ford's announcements today can't be …
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Elvy raises €500M to power its next-generation energy solution
Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Swedish energy company Elvyhas secured a €500 million financing package from Scayl and a banking partnerto fund home energy packages offered through a monthly subscription model. Thepackages include s...
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