Meta leaves RE100 clean energy pact after a decade as its gas buildout for AI outpaces renewables
Meta leaves RE100 clean energy pact after a decade as its gas buildout for AI outpaces renewables

Meta has withdrawn from RE100, the global corporate clean energy initiative it joined a decade ago as Facebook, after the Climate Group confirmed the company can no longer meet the programme’s technical criteria. The departure follows Meta’s commitment…

Cambridge built a planet-scale AI model, and skipped Nvidia to do it
Cambridge built a planet-scale AI model, and skipped Nvidia to do it

The AI industry runs on Nvidia. A team at the University of Cambridge has just shown it does not have to. They have built a planetary-scale foundation model for the Earth, and every chip that trained and ran it came from AMD. The model is called TESSER…

Inside the data centres powering AI: gold racks, demented noise, and 40 diesel generators
Inside the data centres powering AI: gold racks, demented noise, and 40 diesel generators

AI can seem like magic, a voice from a phone, an answer from nowhere. Step inside the buildings that make it, and the magic evaporates. What is left is noise, heat, metal, and an enormous appetite for power. Axios’s Amy Harder toured a test server hall…

Can Self Driving Improve New Transit Even More Than It Does Cars?

Self-driving cars are often depicted as “just more cars” and thus bad news for cities and transit. But what if self-driving could be the salvation of transit?

Tesla’s Founders Are Backing The Anti-Cybertruck

Marc Tarpenning and Martin Eberhard dreamed up Tesla, then convinced Elon Musk to fund it. Two decades later, they’re backing TELO, a maker of pint-sized electric trucks.

June Heatwave Cost U.K Economy More Than £1 Billion, Study Finds

The UK’s June heatwave caused 24 million lost working hours and a £1.15 billion economic hit, according to new research.

What Andy Burnham’s Manchester Record Could Mean For UK Sustainable Finance

Andy Burnham’s Manchester record reveals what his leadership could mean for UK sustainable finance, climate investment and regional growth

Europe’s EV market share tops 25 percent for the first time as June registrations surge nearly 40 percent
Europe’s EV market share tops 25 percent for the first time as June registrations surge nearly 40 percent

Battery-electric registrations across 17 European markets hit 275,060 in June 2026, a jump of nearly 40 percent compared to the same month last year, according to the E-Mobility Europe bulletin published by New AutoMotive. The figure pushed EVs past 25…

Most Americans don’t want an AI data centre next door. Virginia shows why some say yes
Most Americans don’t want an AI data centre next door. Virginia shows why some say yes

Americans want the AI boom. They just do not want it on their street. A new poll finds most US residents would rather not live near an AI data centre. Yet the same buildings quietly bankroll schools where they cluster. More than half of US residents, 5…

The Missing Infrastructure: Why Clean Tech Cannot Scale Without Skills

The clean tech transition isn’t only about deploying new technologies. It’s about developing the people who can build, operate and scale them.