Building an electric air taxi is less about one dramatic first flight than about doing it over and over until regulators are convinced. Vertical Aerospace has just put a second aircraft in the air to help it get there faster. The Bristol-based company …
Ampera, a Florida-based nuclear energy startup, announced on Monday that it has established an Australian subsidiary to secure thorium supply for its advanced reactor programme. The company formed Ampera Australia Pty Ltd in February 2026 to procure an…
The Nashville Zoo has launched a campaign to block a 69,000-square-foot AI data centre proposed by Georgia-based DC BLOX on a site roughly 50 yards from the zoo’s animal enclosures. A petition against the project has drawn nearly 300,000 signatures in …
How can a remote luxury island destination that most travelers reach by plane be called the world’s top eco-tourism destination? I interviewed three travel experts to find out.
For decades, the networks inside data centres have run on electrical switches. They are power-hungry, generate enormous heat, and are increasingly the bottleneck that limits how fast AI systems can process and exchange data. Oriole Networks, a UK start…
Germany has no shortage of heat pumps on paper. What it lacks is a way to get them sold, installed, subsidised, and paid off without the whole thing falling apart somewhere in the middle. GALVANY, a Berlin startup that runs the entire heat-pump journey…
Mexico’s government-backed electric vehicle project Olinia has unveiled its first prototype, a six-seat passenger vehicle called the Olinia Uno, at a ceremony where President Claudia Sheinbaum drove the car onto a stage inside a Mexican Air Force hanga…
Clean energy investment now exceeds fossil fuels by nearly two to one. New IEA data reveals where the world’s energy system is heading.
As data centers transform into “AI factories,” global economic power is shifting to nations that can scale power grids, transformers, and energy infrastructure.
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey warned on Friday that artificial intelligence may need to be rationed because the power supply cannot keep up with its capabilities. He said companies and governments face “very big social choices” as energy const…