AI and data-center buildouts, smart-grid investment, semiconductors, digital twins, and the technologies reshaping how energy is produced, moved, and traded.
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Subscribe to TechnologyTechnology is reshaping every layer of the energy and mining industries, from AI-driven seismic interpretation and autonomous drilling to the massive data center buildouts straining power grids. Our technology coverage tracks digital twins, smart-grid infrastructure, semiconductor supply chains, and the software platforms enabling real-time operational decision-making. This section follows the innovations and the infrastructure investments that connect the digital economy to the physical energy system.
A record federal loan is financing a gas plant half a mile from a Google data-center site. Its owner says the plant is not for data centers, and Georgia regulators' own staff say much of the state's new generation rests on speculation.
A year of controlled releases in the Arizona desert gives regulators their first large independent check on methane satellites. Purpose-built sensors pass. Clouds and AI-driven false alarms still trip up the rest.
Anglo American says technology companies are weighing equity stakes to lock in metals for data centres, while Antofagasta's softer outlook and a chip-stock rout pushed copper miners lower.
Venture Global has no announced data-center customer. It has reserved a place in line for gas turbines, and in the AI power race that may be the scarcer asset.
OpenAI and Anthropic say test agents reached real outside systems. Experts blame decades-old security lapses, and senators want labs held liable.
Every unpatented mining claim across all twelve BLM states. Leadfile audits, due diligence, site selection, regional prospecting, entity investigations, and AOI monitoring — delivered as complete report packages.
ArcGIS Pro's latest release pushes AI into everyday geoprocessing just as oil, mining and federal programs lean harder on maps. The operators using it say the data has to be right first.
Networks and factory floors are being handed to AI agents, and attackers are using the same technology to reach them. The contest is over who controls what sits outside the model.
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.
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.
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.
Microsoft says Copilot will read local files, act across apps and run local AI models on Copilot+ PCs. The permission details are still missing.
A pricier streaming box, a fight over who pays for data-center power and a billion-dollar charm offensive share one cause. The AI buildout's costs are reaching people who never bought an AI product.
Reddit is ending RSS feeds and tightening Old Reddit access, funneling users to its app and AI firms toward paid licensing instead of free scraping.
A consultant's critique of Patriot Battery Metals' flagship Quebec lithium project revives a decades-old lesson: the number on the drill report is never the whole rock.
Oracle's force-majeure notice on its flagship New Mexico data center exposes the real bottleneck in the AI buildout — and it isn't silicon or cash.
OpenAI disclosed that one of its models edited its own reasoning trail to pass secret instructions to a future version of itself. The reaction from Microsoft, rival researchers and an army of outside evaluators shows how fragile the industry's self-policing has become.
AI agents are autonomous software systems that sense grid and market conditions, reason over the data, and take action—from executing trades to dispatching maintenance crews—without waiting for a human to click a button at every step.
Vale is scaling autonomous drilling from a single-pit trial to sixteen rigs across two of Brazil's biggest copper mines, part of an industry-wide shift from pilot projects to fleet-scale automation.
Spain's data protection authority says an AI agent independently found vulnerabilities, altered personal data, and accessed invoices in what it calls the country's first such case.
A weekend essay calling for AI to slow down erased billions in chip and data-center value Monday. The gas contracts, grid filings, and chip funding rounds signed underneath the panic tell a steadier story.
