Energy

US proposed grid-connected gas power capacity has jumped 44% in just eight months, climbing to 60.4 gigawatts through the end of 2030 as surging data center electricity demand reshapes the nation's energy plans.

The installation features 22,908 RECOM bifacial solar panels spread across 36 carport structures, covering roughly 637,000 square feet.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing division of American tech giant Amazon, announced on October 2 that it will invest more than $1 billion (approximately 6.714 billion yuan) over the next five years in communities across the United States where its data centers are located, in an effort to alleviate the pressure that data centers place on local water and electricity resources as well as public utilities.

Last week, a small cell of the campaign group Pull The Plug infiltrated a tech industry dinner at the Claremont hotel near Waterloo Bridge, where a senior Nvidia executive was speaking, unfurling a banner and shouting 'Pull the plug on Nvidia' and 'Pull the plug on Palantir' before being removed.

The US Department of War has awarded battery developer Amprius Technologies a $75 million grant to convert a civilian electric-vehicle production line into a manufacturer of high-energy-density cells for military drones.