Oil & Gas
Oracle Trucks In Gas to Beat the Grid
A trailer of compressed gas runs a large data center for about 40 minutes. Oracle is buying them anyway, because the pipeline isn't built and the grid can't wait.
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Satellites Shrink the Search, Not the Drill
Free radar, commercial colour imaging and even a $10 million asteroid probe are turning orbital data into routine exploration tooling. None of it removes the need to touch the rock.
PhotographFree radar, commercial colour imaging and even a $10 million asteroid probe are turning orbital data into routine exploration tooling. None of it removes the need to touch the rock.
Technology
Data Centers Lose Their Safe Harbor
Drones, zoning boards and a skittish investor in Sydney are all saying no to data centers at once. The AI buildout's scarcest input is no longer silicon or megawatts but permission to keep the lights on.
Mining
Mining Press Roundup: Magna Greenlights Levack Restart Without a Feasibility Study
Magna Mining approves a Levack nickel-copper restart in Sudbury while Army-backed graphite, EU-backed copper, a Chilean strike and Ivanhoe's output guidance shape the day's mining news.
Oil & Gas
Moving Oil Is Now the Price Problem
Freight, storms and drained reserves now set the price of oil as much as the barrels do. A White House pledge of no strikes on Iran barely touches any of it.
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Renewables
Thursday's Close Pits Outliers Against the Tally as Oil, Metals and Clean Power Pull in Different Directions
The Thursday session closed with sharp moves at both ends of the leaderboard, leaving oil producers, miners and clean energy funds with little in common.
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Weekly Energy Market Recap: Oct 2 - Oct 9, 2026
This week in energy: Hurricane Isaias shut in most Gulf of Mexico output, Iran-war freight costs pushed tanker rates sharply higher, and Washington's trade moves began to reshape where equipment will come from.
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Technology
GlobalFoundries Fills a Gap in US Chips
GlobalFoundries will make the silicon interposers that sit beneath AI processors, for TSMC, in upstate New York. The plant is meant to end the Asian detour for American-made AI chips, but volume production comes after the shortage has bitten.
Renewables
How do tariffs affect energy prices and trade?
A tariff is a tax collected at the border on imported goods, and on traded energy equipment such as solar panels it raises landed costs, pushes supply chains toward new countries, and shifts costs among importers, manufacturers and power buyers.
Mining
Wednesday's Close Tests Whether Crude Proxies, Bullion and Clean Power Are Moving Together
Oil majors, gold miners and clean energy funds each sent their own signal at Wednesday's close, with bullion and uranium adding to the cross-currents.