Jun 5, 2006 2:52 PM

Biodiesel Heats Up in EU and SF

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America’s Hybrid Hype Has Hit the Used Market

Demand is so high that some used cars are selling for more than new ones.

Aarian Marshall

The Politics of Solar Energy Are Getting Weird, Mean, and a Little MAGA

A mysterious super PAC that doubles as a pro-solar-energy outfit is funding some of the most knives-out attack ads of the midterms season.

Noah Shachtman

A New Mexico Community Was a Place to Build a Life. Then a Hypersonic Missile Factory Showed Up

Castelion—a next-generation defense tech company—is building a facility in Rio Rancho Estates that documents show could pose a major fire and chemical hazard to neighboring communities.

Yulia Almazova

Tesla’s Roadster 2 Is Late—and Entering a Different EV World

Nine years after its reveal, the overdue Roadster is set to debut on Thursday to an EV market that has grown skeptical of electric hypercars.

Aarian Marshall

Jensen Huang’s Vision for Europe Runs on Plug-In Data Centers

At Nvidia’s GTC in Berlin, Huang unveiled the company’s new plug-in data center—the DSX Pod—as the key to unlocking Europe’s AI infrastructure lag. Oh, and autonomous humanoid robotics.

Tom Bristow

Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ Becomes ‘Assisted Driving’ in Europe

The automaker has been criticized for misleading drivers with the feature’s name. Now it’s renaming it for European regulators.

Aarian Marshall

Spend Elon Musk’s Money

What’s it like to be the richest man in the world? Find out for yourself.

Neal Agarwal

What the US Movement Against Data Centers Can Learn From Everywhere Else

Paris Marx, author of Hyperscale, has been tracking global data center development for years. The US has a lot to learn from what’s happened everywhere from Ireland to New Zealand.

Molly Taft

Anthropic Flags Gas Supply as One of Its Biggest Near-Term Risks

The data center buildout could cause a massive increase in gas prices as companies scramble for limited supplies and infrastructure fails to meet demand.

Molly Taft

A Startup Has a Plan to Make Water From Air Using Data Centers’ Waste Heat

Atoco’s new machines use specialized materials that can harvest water from some of the driest air on Earth without using electricity.

Brian Kahn

Europe Wants Data Centers. Its Climate Goals Are Getting in the Way

A plan to funnel the heat given off by data centers into nearby homes has run aground in Germany. Across Europe, policymakers are weighing AI ambitions against climate objectives.

Joel Khalili