Meta strikes massive nuclear energy deals with Vistra, TerraPower, and Oklo to generate 6.6 gigawatts of clean power by 2035, becoming one of America's largest corporate nuclear buyers while extending existing plant operations and developing advanced reactor technology to fuel its AI infrastructure expansion.
Cambridge researchers discover that building bike lanes and rail lines creates 'induced demand' just like highways, spurring more people to choose non-driving transportation, but warn the UK still faces a 9% energy increase by 2060 without additional policies beyond infrastructure improvements.
AI systems now generate up to 80 million tons of carbon emissions annually, matching New York City's entire output, while consuming hundreds of billions of liters of water equivalent to global bottled water usage as tech companies resist transparency about their environmental impact.
Geothermal startup Fervo Energy secures $462 million led by B Capital and Google to complete its massive 500-megawatt Cape Station plant in Utah, targeting 2026 to power Google's data centers while revolutionizing the industry by cutting well drilling time in half.
The European Union announces a massive €20 billion investment to construct five AI gigafactories across Europe, each housing 100,000 advanced AI chips to train complex models for medicine, cleantech, and space applications in a bold bid for technological independence from global competitors.
The Department of Energy launches AMP2, an AI-powered robot lab that operates 24/7 to accelerate research on bacteria and fungi for producing chemicals, energy, and biomaterials, positioning the U.S. to compete in a bioeconomy projected to grow from $4 trillion to $30 trillion by 2050.
UK's Tokamak Energy achieves world-first fusion breakthrough by generating record 11.8 Tesla magnetic field at -243°C using revolutionary high-temperature superconducting magnets, validating critical technology for commercial fusion power plants while opening doors to transformative applications in electric aviation, data centers, and magnetic levitation transport.
Meta breaks ground on a massive $1 billion data center in Wisconsin, creating 1,100 jobs while donating $15 million for local energy relief and committing to restore 570 acres of wetlands in an environmentally-conscious expansion to support AI operations.
University of Surrey scientists develop revolutionary brain-mimicking AI called Topographical Sparse Mapping that connects neurons only to nearby related ones, dramatically slashing energy consumption by over a million kilowatt-hours while boosting performance through biological pruning processes that refine connections during learning.
Japan launches groundbreaking OHISAMA satellite in 2025 to beam solar power from space to Earth via microwaves, marking the first real test of orbital energy transmission as the nation seeks energy independence despite costs being 10 times higher than ground-based alternatives.