A cloud seeding startup did not cause the Texas floods
Despite conspiracy theories, there’s no way that cloud seeding operations days before the storm could have influenced the floods, scientists say.
LGND wants to make ChatGPT for the Earth
LGND has raised $9 million to convert geographic data into vector embeddings to power AI models that understand the Earth.
Yplasma zaps the air to cool chips for data centers
Yplasma recently raised $2.5 million to refine its plasma actuators, which can modify the flow of air.
Frontier is helping Arbor build a “vegetarian rocket engine” to power data centers
Arbor Energy’s carbon-removing power plant is inspired by SpaceX’s rocket engines.
Tulum Energy rediscovered a forgotten hydrogen tech and used it to raise $27M
Results of a 20-year-old curiosity now form the basis of Tulum, a startup that has attracted significant investor attention.
Final GOP bill kneecaps renewables and hydrogen, but lifts nuclear and geothermal
The final bill is largely what emerged from the Senate Finance Committee in mid-June.
xAI gets permits for 15 natural gas generators at Memphis data center
Elon Musk’s AI company has been operating more than twice that number without permits for months, a legal group alleges.
Tesla’s energy storage business gets sucked into the company’s downward spiral
For the second consecutive quarter, deployments of its Powerwall and Megapack stationary storage products have declined.
Terra CO2 cements $124M Series B to slash concrete’s carbon footprint
The startup said that it’ll be using the new funding to build a massive facility near Dallas capable of pumping out 240,000 tons of its supplementary cementitious material (SCM) annually.
Google’s data center energy use doubled in 4 years
Google has pledged to use only carbon-free sources of electricity to power its operations, a task made more challenging by its breakneck pace of data center growth.