Massachusetts Tells Big Data Centers to Bring Their Own Clean Power
For a few years, cities and states competed to lure data centers with tax breaks, cheap land and fast permits, treating the sprawling buildings as an economic prize. On September…
Justice Department Extends Review of Fox’s $22 Billion Roku Deal
Roku began as a way to put Netflix on a box next to the television, and it grew into a platform that sits between millions of Americans and whatever they…
Waymo Opens Its Robotaxis to Lyft Riders in Nashville
A rider in Nashville who opens the Lyft app and taps a destination may now find a car pulling up with no one behind the wheel. On September 9, Waymo’s…
Tesla Says It Has Tens of Thousands of Cybercab Orders; Regulators Want Answers
The form went up quietly before Tesla’s September 3 event in Austin, asking businesses whether they wanted to buy robotaxi fleets, mobility hubs or charging infrastructure. By September 9, the…
Bending Spoons Buys Miro for $1.36 Billion in Cash
During the pandemic, when offices emptied and teams scattered, the whiteboard became the shared desk. Miro built a business on that shift, turning a blank digital canvas into a tool…
Microsoft Skips the Grid and Builds Its Own Power
The power deal Microsoft announced on September 9 bypasses the part of the system where data-center projects usually stall. Energy Forge One, a Chevron subsidiary, signed a 20-year power purchase…
ASML Wins High NA Commitments and Rewrites the Mask
Two of the world’s largest chipmakers put their signatures on a machine that costs roughly $400 million each, and in doing so settled a debate that has divided the industry…
SK Hynix Workers Reopen Pay Deal Over Bonus Split
The emergency assembly came together on short notice. SK Hynix’s labor union called a special meeting of its representatives on September 10 to explain a revised compensation proposal to its…
A European Space Startup Raises $450 Million to Build a Backup to SpaceX
For Europe’s space agencies and companies, getting anything into orbit has increasingly meant one phone call: to SpaceX. The European Space Agency, commercial satellite operators and even national governments have…
Washington Puts $1.9 Billion Behind a Restart of Iowa’s Only Nuclear Plant
Duane Arnold was supposed to be done. The 615-megawatt nuclear plant on the Cedar River in Iowa was shut down in 2020 after a powerful windstorm known as a derecho…
