Ambitious Experiment Aims to Test Tiny Nuclear Reactors for AI Data Centers

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Compact microreactors have the potential to alleviate the heavy energy demands of the AI industry.

A massive Oracle data center planned for rural Michigan secures $16 billion in funding

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A digital rendering of the huge 1-gigawatt data center campus planned for Saline, Michigan, which will serve Oracle's AI business.

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Maine is the latest state to try — and fail — to ban new data centers

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Maine Gov. Janet Mills vetoed a bill that would've paused data center development.

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Big Tech's AI data centers are pushing the power grid to its limits — and one state is feeling it the most

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Power demand in Texas could quadruple by 2032, driven by data centers seeking to connect to the grid.

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Why Warren Buffett's cash pile and Michael Burry's AI doubts make sense in this market

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Warren Buffett is the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway.

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Anthony Scaramucci says the US economy isn't facing a recession. It's already in one.

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Anthony Scaramucci, founder of SkyBridge Capital, speaking at an event.

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US Renewable Power Generation Beats Natural Gas for the First Time, Defying Trump

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Renewable energy is gaining ground in the U.S. power mix.

Maine is poised to ban new data centers. These 11 other states tried and failed.

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Active servers are seen at a Digital Realty data center in Ashburn, Virginia on November 12, 2025.
The data center infrastructure boom has taken off across the country as it meets local resistance.

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Scientists Are Using Lightning in a Bottle to Turn Methane Into Methanol

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The findings potentially resolve a long-standing issue with methanol conversion, which has tended to be clunky, inefficient, and environmentally detrimental.

Utilities are spending $1.4 trillion to power the AI boom, and it's hiking up electric bills across the US

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An Entergy power plant in Texas.

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