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Algorithmic bidding not the NEM’s ‘boogeyman,’ says Fluence at All-Energy Australia 2026
Algorithmic bidding systems used to trade battery storage do not threaten competition in Australia's NEM, according to Fluence.
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Upwind raises $400M after walking away from Datadog acquisition offer
The cloud security startup raised a Series C at a $3.8B valuation, instead of selling itself for the same price.
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Apple’s touchscreen MacBook Pro pushes laptop pricing to a new extreme
Prepare to cough up around $14,549 if you want the new touchscreen MacBook Pro to have every upgrade.
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Microsoft just shared Azure’s actual revenue in dollars: $33.2 billion
Microsoft has never disclosed Azure's quarterly revenue in dollars. But for the first time, we can see just how close it is getting to besting the biggest competitor in the market, AWS.
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Google expands AI Search ads globally as core ad growth slows
The announcement came alongside parent company Alphabet's third-quarter earnings report, which saw revenue grow 25% year over year to $127.6 billion.
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Microsoft recorded $10 billion in revenue from OpenAI
Microsoft said it made $10 billion in revenue from commercial arrangements with OpenAI, including revenue-sharing payments, in the quarter ending September 30. It underscores the still-enormous financial dependency of the partnership.
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Microsoft hits 10 quarters of record-breaking revenue in a row
Whatever the future of AI might be, the current situation is still very good for Microsoft. The tech giant reported yet another record for quarterly revenue on Wednesday: $92.3 billion, a 19% increase over the year-ago quarter.
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Hacker stole personnel data about thousands of Homeland Security employees, including CBP and ICE agents
A hacker obtained personally identifiable information about more than 40,000 Homeland Security staffers, which has since been published online.
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Anthropic just launched tools to show companies what their AI spending is buying
The frontier lab is lifting the curtain on how users spend money on its models ahead of a planned IPO.
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Wiz’s CTO on PHP2Shell and the coming ‘vulnpocalypse’
The PHP scare may have faded from your feed, but the cleanup is far from over. Last week, two critical bugs in the open source language behind roughly 70% of websites left organizations scrambling to fix their systems, with some taking sites offline until the vulnerabilities could be patched. According to researchers who found the […]
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The DOE announces $5B loan to Constellation for nuclear uprates
The pro-nuclear Trump administration continues to put its money where its mouth is. On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Energy announced a conditional loan commitment of up to $5 billion to boost the output of 15 reactors at eight nuclear power plants in Illinois, Maryland, and Pennsylvania by a combined 1.1…
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Altera Agilex 27 is the First Agilex 2X Platform Adding 800GbE and 1.6TbE and More
Altera announced its new Agilex 2X series with the higher-end Agilex 27 with features like LPDDR6 and 1.6TbE support coming in 2027 The post Altera Agilex 27 is the First Agilex 2X Platform Adding 800GbE and 1.6TbE and More appeared first on ServeTheHome .
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Apple launches its new touchscreen MacBook Pro
Apple's new touchscreen MacBook Pro starts at $2,899.
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Xreal Aura is a new wired headset powered by Android XR
Xreal Aura will start at $1,279 and will have multiple XR specific apps at launch.
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As AI agents reshape the web, Google opens Gemini and Search to more apps
A new developer platform will let businesses bring their services to Google's AI experiences, potentially changing how consumers discover and use apps.
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Intel’s $2.3 Billion Bet on a Quantum Future is a Decade in the Making
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CMS Energy CEO predicts data center ‘progress’ after midterms
Garrick Rochow blamed political “spin” for permitting setbacks in an earnings call. He did not address the more than $300 million the utility says it has spent to keep an aging coal plant running under DOE ‘emergency’ orders.
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California utilities, aggregators and customers to benefit from new DER laws: advocates
One aggregator called device-level telemetry the “keystone” to extract value from multiple distributed energy resources behind the same meter.
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FERC approves tougher MISO penalties for nonperforming demand-side resources
Two Federal Energy Regulatory Commission members urged parties to monitor the rules in case they drive well-performing demand response and behind-the-meter resources out of the Midcontinent grid operator’s market.
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DOE announces $10.1B in loans to Constellation, Alliant, for 3.7 GW
Both loan packages could be used to finance uprates at existing generation facilities, which Energy Secretary Chris Wright called “commonsense” energy policy.
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BESS developer Bimergen Energy files for Retail Electric Provider certificate to serve Texas data centres
Energy storage developer-operator Bimergen Energy has filed an application for an Option 2 Retail Electric Provider (REP) certificate in Texas, US.
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‘Europe has the capability’ to support homegrown BESS industry, Valo CEO Fath says in exclusive interview
ESN Premium meets Peter Fath, CEO of Valo, about the newly launched energy storage joint venture’s next steps and broader strategy.
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Data centres could drive sodium-ion, LDES adoption in Europe – analyst
Sodium-ion’s position has strengthened substantially in the past 12 months but its adoption in Europe depends on several key factors including data centres and their use case, an analyst said.
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LG Energy Solution signs MOU with Energix for 4.5GWh of potential BESS deployments in US and Europe
South Korean battery giant LG Energy Solution (LG ES) has signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) with owner-operator Energix-Renewable Energies to expand collaboration on energy storage projects in Europe and the US.
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Kyon Energy puts 282MWh Alfeld battery storage project in Germany into operation
BESS developer Kyon Energy has commissioned and put into operation its 137.5MW/282MWh Alfeld BESS project in Germany, potentially the country’s largest to reach that milestone.
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India’s BESS pipeline needs bankable tenders and diversified revenue streams
India’s storage market is expanding, but project delivery depends on predictable procurement, domestic manufacturing and revenue models that support investment.
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How much are Trump’s pro-coal policies costing us?
The Trump administration loves coal plants. The rest of us are paying the price in higher electricity bills, poorer health, and worsening climate change. That’s the takeaway of an analysis out today from the Environmental Defense Fund. It finds the Trump administration is directly or indirectly propping up nearly…
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More heat pumps would actually be good for the grid, researchers find
Heat pumps, superefficient sources of electric heating and cooling, are winners for the climate , air quality , and typically a household’s energy bills. But a common claim cautioning against their widespread adoption in the U.S. is that the electrical grid is too strained to handle all the extra demand they would…
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CATL holds global launch for 9MWh TENER+ BESS at All-Energy Australia, signs PCS agreement with Hitachi Energy
CATL has launched its 9MWh TENER+ battery storage system at All-Energy Australia 2026 and signed three MoUs with Australian partners.
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Microsoft Maia 300 Shown at OCP 2026
At OCP Summit 2026, we saw the new Microsoft Maia 300 platform with four 288GB HBM4 950W accelerators per tray The post Microsoft Maia 300 Shown at OCP 2026 appeared first on ServeTheHome .
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Oracle is Expanding the Accelerator Options in OCI for Enterprises
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Energy security, not just climate goals, drive Caribbean and Latin American storage growth
Regulation, energy independence and energy demand growth as key drivers for BESS development across several markets in Latin America.
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India has 5.3GWh of operational BESS, with 185GWh under development, CEA official says
India has 5.3GWh of operational battery energy storage system (BESS) capacity, with a further 185GWh of projects under development, according to Prashant Bhamu, deputy director of integrated resources planning at the Central Electricity Authority (CEA), part of the Ministry of Power.
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Capacity, clarity, cash and compliance: the 4 C’s of electric co-op funding success
Compliance is where cooperative utilities tend to struggle the most, and the latest federal funding programs have introduced even tougher terms, writes Fedsprout CEO Aalap Shah.
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BNEF ups US energy storage deployment forecast by 30%
Hyperscalers’ interest in on-site and nearby energy storage has converted into firm orders this year, the global energy consultancy said last week in its latest industry outlook.
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PJM urges FERC to dismiss Mon Power ‘fishing expedition’ seeking to recoup $145M
FirstEnergy’s Monongahela Power contends that the PJM Interconnection’s advanced scheduling of gas-fired power plants during Winter Storm Fern may have violated the grid operator’s rules.
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CenterPoint expands 10-year capital plan by $4B to handle load growth
The Houston-based utility’s investment plan through 2035 stands at almost $71 billion, and the company is accelerating some investments to support growing customer demand.
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Ford’s new EV pickup will come with more affordable home-power backup
Electric vehicles can serve as home backup batteries. But so far, most EVs have needed expensive bidirectional chargers to do that — a tough sell for customers. Ford aims to remove this cost obstacle with its forthcoming Ford Fathom electric pickup truck . On Tuesday, the U.S. automaker revealed that the Fathom,…
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Samsung SDI signs 1GWh US BESS supply agreement with Alpha Omega Power
South Korean battery and electronics materials manufacturer Samsung SDI has signed a 1GWh supply agreement with US IPP Alpha Omega Power (AOP).
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Poland: Greenvolt sells 1.6GWh of projects to A&R, PGE building 800MWh with Fluence tech
IPP Greenvolt has agreed to sell two BESS in Poland to A&R, PGE Group has started building an 800MWh one, while SC Holding, Tauron and Tavion have launched projects into the country.
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Price hikes aren’t all that’s at stake in FirstEnergy Ohio’s rate case
Before a utility can raise electricity rates, it must get approval from regulators. In Ohio, some groups are looking to step into that process to make sure FirstEnergy, whose utilities supply power to over 2 million customers in the state, uses some of the money it will receive from ratepayers to equitably enable the…
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ASRock Creator Radeon AI Pro R9700 Review: Workstation Inference, AMD Style
Today we are taking a look at ASRock's high-end Radeon AI inference card for workstations, the Creator Radeon AI Pro R9700. With 32GB of RAM and a $1700 price tag, the card is a highly affordable way to fill out a workstation for local AI inference The post ASRock Creator Radeon AI Pro R9700 Review: Workstation Inference, AMD Style appeared first on ServeTheHome .
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Wind turbine orders hit 2.8 GW in Q2 ahead of tax credit deadline: WoodMac
Overall, “the U.S. wind industry remains on course to add 39 GW of onshore new-build capacity by 2030,” the report said.
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CISA promises proactive critical infrastructure defense in new strategic plan
Supply-chain security receives special attention in the plan, with CISA promising to “develop data-driven guidance and best practices” related to third-party dependencies. AI is mentioned only briefly.
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Nvidia Simulates Its Way Into Google's Magic State Cultivation Party
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Cadence, Nvidia Unveil New AI Models To Put EDA On Autopilot
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This group-buy campaign makes it easier to switch to induction cooking
Word is getting out about electric induction ranges. More and more chefs say the appliances cook just as well as or better than their gas counterparts. The stoves don’t burn climate-warming fossil fuels or release harmful indoor air pollutants like gas ones do. And because they’re vastly more efficient, they also…
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Massachusetts sets big battery goals — and the policies to back them up
Just outside Boston, a developer is getting set to build a 700-megawatt storage facility that is expected to dwarf every other battery project in New England. One town over, another energy company just closed on $850 million in financing to build a 250-MW battery. Down near the Rhode Island border, ground has been…
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Aivres NVIDIA Vera Rubin and HGX B300 at OCP Summit
We check out the range of Aivres NVIDIA Vera, Vera Rubin, and Blackwell Ultra platforms at OCP Summit 2026 The post Aivres NVIDIA Vera Rubin and HGX B300 at OCP Summit appeared first on ServeTheHome .
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Poetry for Engineers: Of Code and Shortleaf Pine
I step into the warm moist air among the columns of the pines, their net of twigs and roots complex as any lines of code. The trees purify and anchor. Their branches balance my restlessness. Their calling is to be present, mine to develop apps. Our tasks verge toward a common logic: living filaments of root, of interface.
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ADT R27A-BK3 U.2 to PCIe Adapter Review
We test the cheap ADT R27A-BK3 card to see what the U.2 SSD to PCIe card slot adapter offers, and how the cooling works The post ADT R27A-BK3 U.2 to PCIe Adapter Review appeared first on ServeTheHome .
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What Biometric Technology Does and Doesn’t Add to Voting
Whether voters are alive or dead is of vital interest to democracies. Yet unscrupulous political operators have long voted on behalf of the dead or absent and otherwise committed electoral frauds exploiting the weaknesses of paper identification systems. So some 50 countries now use biometric technologies, such as fingerprint readers or facial recognition technology, at some stage in their electio
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MSI XpertStation WS300 Review NVIDIA DGX Station GB300
We take a look at the MSI XpertStation WS300, the company's top local AI solution powered by the NVIDIA DGX Station platform The post MSI XpertStation WS300 Review NVIDIA DGX Station GB300 appeared first on ServeTheHome .
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The permitting deal collides with Trump’s war on offshore wind
This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. It’s been years in the making, but the U.S. Senate finally has a bipartisan permitting bill on the table that could speed up the construction of much-needed energy and grid projects. That is, if the Trump…
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APC Says Let There Be Light, With Raft Of Standards To Speed Up Photonics Manufacturing
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As US grid batteries surge, risk of fires plummets
See more from Canary Media’s “Chart of the Week” column . Battery fires are like shark attacks: frightening events that loom cinematically large in the American psyche and almost never actually happen. As batteries have become America’s top choice for new on-demand grid power, community concern about their fire…
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Three Physical Walls Are Hitting AI Datacenter Infrastructure at the Same Time - And the Compound Effects Are Worse
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How Mixx Technologies Is Lighting The Way To Fully Optical Scale-up Networks
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What kind of virtual power plant would you choose?
This is California Wire , a weekly newsletter from Jeff St. John on the state’s clean energy transition. Subscribe to get it every Thursday via Substack. Hello, everybody! Welcome back to California Wire. This week, I’m going to be talking about virtual power plants again — but not the ones set up by utilities…
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Why Engineers Should Brave Capitol Hill
When San Antonio–based software engineer Nikhil Jathar first went to Washington, D.C., to advocate for federal support for technology education and research funding, he was in awe of the opportunity. It was spring of 2025, not long after Jathar settled in the United States from India, when he got an invitation to join the annual Congressional Visits Day organized by IEEE-USA . “My first reaction w
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