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IEA warns AI data centre electricity use will triple by 2030

2026-04-22T13:52:53Z

An International Energy Association (IEA) report expects demand from AI data centres to triple by 2030. AI data centres are energy guzzlers, requiring a significant amount of electricity for computation. Just in the UK, it is predicted that the 140 p...(read more)

Electrification needed to shield industry from future energy crises, warns Oxford study

2026-04-22T12:16:16Z

Industries that continue to rely on fossil fuels without major efforts to electrify will risk recurring price shocks in the future, a University of Oxford analysis has found. The continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz is leading to ramping concern...(read more)

Government scraps planning rules for cross-pavement EV charging

2026-04-22T11:32:12Z

The government has announced plans to cut red tape and make it easier to install on-street electric vehicle (EV) chargers and cross-pavement charging solutions. The new measures were announced as part of a wider package of energy and cost-of-living m...(read more)

Engineer to take helm of Apple as Tim Cook steps down

2026-04-21T14:39:04Z

Tim Cook is to resign as Apple CEO, with head of hardware engineering John Ternus succeeding him on 1 September. Cook, who succeeded Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in 2011, will stay on at the company in the role of executive chair. The announcement was...(read more)

Finland opens one of the world’s longest car-free bridges

2026-04-21T11:08:45Z

A 1.19km-long bridge that will exclusively serve pedestrians, cyclists and trams has been opened in Helsinki. On Saturday 18 April, over 50,000 people attended the official opening weekend of the city’s new Kruunuvuorensilta Bridge, the longest and t...(read more)

£56bn boost to UK economy from expanding onshore wind supply chain

2026-04-20T13:15:41Z

Expanding the UK’s onshore wind supply chain could add £56bn to the economy, according to a new report by RenewableUK. Projections indicate that the UK’s current operating fleet of onshore wind turbines could potentially triple by 2050 from 16GW now ...(read more)

Fusion power may struggle to compete with renewables on cost

2026-04-20T10:45:45Z

The cost of fusion technology is likely to fall more slowly than previously predicted, raising doubts about its ability to compete with renewable energy. Researchers at Swiss university ETH Zurich set out to explore whether assumptions about the cost...(read more)

Blue Origin achieves rocket reuse milestone but fumbles satellite deployment

2026-04-20T10:09:39Z

For the first time, Blue Origin has successfully landed its New Glenn booster rocket, which had been flown on a prior mission, but the satellite payload that came with it was shunted into an incorrect orbit. The launch marked a technical milestone fo...(read more)

EU cuts greenhouse gas emissions by 40% but transport remains a weak spot

2026-04-17T14:55:11Z

The EU’s total greenhouse gas emissions have now fallen by 40% since 1990, according to official data. The latest statistics, which show a 3% fall between 2023 and 2024, underline a continued trend of declining emissions largely driven by a larger sh...(read more)

Venice could be moved inland as rising seas outpace flood defences

2026-04-17T12:02:45Z

Relocating Venice to a new site has been mooted as one possible option to protect it from rising sea levels as the increasing number of flooding events threaten to overwhelm the city’s infrastructure. Scientists have been assessing potential adaptati...(read more)

JET uses robot workforce to undertake world-first decommissioning of a fusion plant

2026-04-17T09:41:11Z

This article has been provided by Salvador Pacheco-Gutiérrez, head of technology at RAICo, with additional input from Nick Jones, head of decommissioning at JET Decommissioning and Repurposing (JDR). Fusion decommissioning does not have the same prob...(read more)

Geely's new EV battery sets 10% to 80% charging record in just over five minutes

2026-04-16T19:05:42Z

Chinese automaker Geely has unveiled a new electric vehicle (EV) battery capable of charging faster than any other current EV charging system on the market. The 900V Energee Golden Brick Battery will feature in the new Geely-owned Lynk & Co 10+ e...(read more)

430-metre-deep underground nuclear waste facility set to open in Finland

2026-04-16T19:05:40Z

A permanent underground repository for spent nuclear fuel is to begin operations in Finland, safely storing waste for up to 100,000 years. The facility, called Onkalo (Finnish for ‘cave’ or ‘hiding place’), is located in Eurajoki, in the west of the ...(read more)

E+T Podcast: Episode 22 | The evolution of mapping and its role in tomorrow’s technology

2026-04-16T19:05:25Z

What does it mean to map the future? In this episode, E+T regulars Tim Fryer and Jack Loughran are joined by Tom Gray from Ordnance Survey to explore how mapping has evolved into a critical layer of modern technology. Now largely digital, Ordnance Su...(read more)

World’s first milk chocolate bar made with lab-grown cocoa butter

2026-04-16T14:34:34Z

Israeli-based tech start-up Celleste Bio has unveiled a milk chocolate bar made using real cocoa butter grown in a bioreactor. Celleste Bio has developed a technology capable of producing chocolate-grade cocoa butter that is bio-identical to conventi...(read more)