A Power Plant Built for a Single Customer
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The generating station American Electric Power plans to build outside this city will sell its electricity to one buyer for twenty years. That contract, and the load…
Siemens Buys the Exclusive Rights to a Supercapacitor Maker’s Data-Center Line
Inside an artificial-intelligence data center, the electrical load swings in milliseconds as racks of accelerators switch between heavy computation and near idle. The grid and the backup systems around them…
Fermi Gets an AMD Backstop for Its Texas Power Campus
Shares of Fermi Inc. rose 13.2% before the opening bell Tuesday and closed up about 18% at $3.84, on volume of 59.4 million shares, more than triple the stock’s 100-day…
Broadcom Sells a Patch That Doesn’t Need a Reboot
Broadcom introduced a security product for VMware on Oct. 13 that installs protection at the layer where virtual machines run, without restarting the machines, upgrading the software or dropping an…
Tesla’s Nine-Year Roadster Bet Takes a Stage in Texas
The field outside Waco, Texas, will be dark and the aircraft restricted when Tesla unveils the next-generation Roadster at 8:55 p.m. Eastern time on Oct. 15, a date the company…
Anthropic Hands Investors the Numbers and Lets Them Set the Price
At its headquarters in San Francisco on Tuesday, Anthropic gave a group of institutional investors its third-quarter financials and asked them, in effect, to name a price. They came back…
Oracle Offers to Pay for Power It May Not Use, and Commissioners Balk
Oracle walked into a New Mexico county meeting on Tuesday with a guarantee that most utilities never receive: a customer offering to pay for electricity whether it uses it or…
Google’s Best Model Arrives With a Discount and an Expiration Date
Google opened its most capable artificial-intelligence model to developers, enterprises and consumers on Tuesday, and put the detail that matters most to buyers in a footnote. Gemini 4 Argon is…
Two Blank Checks Test the Appetite for SPACs
On Tuesday, two filings landed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a few hours apart, each asking the same question in a different size. Apex Treasury Corp II, a blank…
Oracle Offers a Power Bill Credit to Keep Its Data Center From Raising Rates
Oracle has proposed paying El Paso Electric $10 million a year for a decade and returning as much as $55 million a year to the utility’s customers for three years,…
