The deal paves the way for Form Energy to raise a new funding round before potentially going public next year.
Public backlash over the data center boom is leading to a variety of draconian policies—including bans on new construction.
Form Energy’s iron-air batteries will store wind and solar power to keep the data center running 24/7.
Data centers for AI are turning the world of power generation on its head. There isn’t enough power capacity on the grid to even come close to how much energy is needed for the number being built. And traditional transmission and distribution networks…
Redwood Materials says its new energy storage business is the fastest growing unit within the company.
Microsoft says glass data storage can preserve data for 10,000 years, using lasers to write voxels inside silica plates. It’s built for archives, but scaling write speed and reader access remain big hurdles.
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Tesla alumni Drew Baglino raises a large round to build a giga-scale factory, this time at his own startup.
The startup is making solid-state transformers capable of intelligently aggregating power from a number of different sources before sending it to data center racks.
In 2024, Google claimed that their data centers are 1.5x more energy efficient than industry average. In 2025, Microsoft committed billions to nuclear power for AI workloads. The data center industry tracks power usage effectiveness to three decimal p…