IT総合 Amazon bought more renewable power last year than any other company
Amazon added around 100 new renewable projects last year.
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IT総合 IT総合 Trump administration might give a boost to deep-sea mining for critical minerals
A string of nominees all previously said that they support the practice A string of nominees all previously said that th...
IT総合 Climate tech matured in 2024 as investors favored bigger rounds, later stages
Climate tech may have had a down year in 2024, but new data also shows a maturing sector with larger deal sizes. Venture...
IT総合 Meta adds 200 megawatts of solar to its 12 gigawatt renewable portfolio
The news comes as tech companies ramp up their AI ambitions, adding data centers at a breakneck pace and boosting demand...
IT総合 Data center power demand will double over the next five years
Data centers are expected to continue growing at a breakneck pace, doubling their power demand by 2029, according to a n...
IT総合 Biosphere zaps germs with UV light to make biomanufacturing cheaper
Using LEDs has the potential to bring down the cost of biomanufacturing, allowing such processes to make materials that ...
IT総合 Gridware’s boxes literally listen to power lines to find outages
Gridware's sensors listen for sounds that the company’s software has been trained to identify as different hazards to th...
IT総合 Nuclear startup Deep Fission plans to bury micro-reactors to power data centers
Deep Fission's small modular reactors would be lowered on cables down a 30-inch, one-mile deep borehole.
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IT総合 Alta Resource breaks down e-waste for rare earth metals that electronics need
Nvidia, Apple, and the Pentagon want more rare earth metals. Alta says it can capture more of the critical minerals from...
IT総合 Hydrogen tax credit rules give startups clarity while boosting nuclear and carbon capture
Hydrogen startups are widely seen as a promising way to eliminate fossil fuels from heavy industry and long-haul transpo...
IT総合 Electra found a cheap, clean way to purify iron, and it’s raising $257M to make it happen
Electra has raised $76.3 million to clean up the dirty ironmaking industry, TechCrunch has learned. The startup has deve...
IT総合 KoBold used AI to find copper — now investors are piling in to the tune of $537M
The Bill Gates-backed startup uses AI to comb through massive data sets in an attempt to find more critical minerals.
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IT総合 2025 will be the year climate tech learns to love AI
As 2025 dawns, it’s a good time to look at the trends that are likely to define the coming 12 months.
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IT総合 Juniper Ventures spins out of Climate Capital to invest in synthetic biology for the climate
The first Juniper fund is $10.6 million and is oversubscribed.
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IT総合 If climate tech is dead, what comes next?
Climate tech is about a decade old, and people are itching for a rebrand.
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IT総合 California can ban new gas cars starting in 2035, EPA says
California’s phase out would begin in 2026, when the state will require 35% of automakers’ sales to be zero emissions ve...
IT総合 Sam Altman-backed nuclear startup Oklo lands massive data center power deal, with caveats
Among the hurdles, Oklo still hasn’t received approval from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission after having its previous ...
IT総合 Commonwealth Fusion Systems just picked its first commercial site partly because of its proximity to Washington, D.C.
The fusion startup intends to hook the power plant up to the grid in the early 2030s.
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IT総合 Focused Energy buys two of the world’s most powerful lasers for its fusion quest
The massive lasers will be installed in the startup’s future facility, which it is building in the San Francisco Bay Are...
IT総合 G2 Ventures Partners is raising $750 million for a third fund
The raise is a bullish vote of confidence in climate and sustainability startups.
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IT総合 Exxon can’t resist the AI power gold rush
The oil and gas company announced that it’s planning to build a massive power plant for data centers.
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IT総合 Activate and The Engine Accelerator team up to train scientists to become founders
Two prominent programs, Activate and The Engine Accelerator, have decided they can give founders an advantage if they te...
IT総合 Microsoft anchors $9B renewable energy coalition
The coalition, which is organized by Acadia, is seeking to invest $9 billion to build 5 gigawatts worth of renewable pow...
IT総合 Green ammonia startup Amogy is trying to raise $90M to reduce truck pollution
The company is focused on various transportation markets, including maritime shipping, long-haul trucking, and agricultu...
IT総合 Electrified Thermal Solutions has a plan to help industry replace natural gas with bricks
The startup has been working to imbue the humble brick with the ability to transform electricity into heat and store it ...
IT総合 Google kicks off $20B renewable energy building spree to power AI
Google signed a deal with Intersect Power and TPG Rise Climate to spin up enough carbon-free power to drive several giga...
IT総合 A new wave of desalination startups argues that deeper is better
Advances in robotics and seabed electrification have enabled a trio of startups to pursue deep sea reverse osmosis.
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IT総合 Nexalus has a new method for liquid-cooling data centers that could make the waste heat useful
The startup argues that its hot-water approach is not only more efficient, but also more useful.
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IT総合 Amp Robotics raises $91M to build more robot-filled waste sorting facilities
Recently, Amp Robotics changed its business model to focus on running entire facilities that sort recyclables.
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IT総合 Heirloom Carbon raises $150M to remove CO2 from the air using rocks
The startup is betting that by building bigger and capturing more carbon, it can bring down the cost to remove each metr...