Tnw - Sustainability # pt-br <![CDATA[Google will fund a 1 gigawatt virtual power plant run by Voltus on the PJM grid, to supply capacity for its operations there. The deal adds 1,070 megawatts to the 100 megawatts the two agreed in June, the companies said on Thursday.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/google-voltus-1gw-virtual-power-plant-pjm]]> <![CDATA[October 22, 2026 - 1:24 pm]]> <![CDATA[23/10/2026 21:05:43]]> <![CDATA[Protesters interrupted Jensen Huang’s keynote at Nvidia’s GTC Berlin conference on Wednesday, asking what the company is doing about Nvidia chips reported in Russian drones. Security staff led them out, and Nvidia’s chief executive carried on with his talk.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/huang-gtc-berlin-keynote-protest-nvidia-chips-russian-drones]]> <![CDATA[October 21, 2026 - 11:06 am]]> <![CDATA[23/10/2026 21:05:43]]> <![CDATA[Meta’s Prometheus supercluster in New Albany, Ohio, already runs hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs across several buildings, and Meta plans to grow it to about 1 million. The company set out the details in an engineering blog post on Monday.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-prometheus-supercluster-1-million-gpus-muse]]> <![CDATA[October 20, 2026 - 9:08 pm]]> <![CDATA[23/10/2026 21:05:43]]> <![CDATA[Woodside Energy has paused work on its Scarborough gas platform off Western Australia after Greenpeace protesters climbed aboard.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/woodside-scarborough-greenpeace-protest-pause]]> <![CDATA[October 18, 2026 - 11:57 am]]> <![CDATA[23/10/2026 21:05:43]]> <![CDATA[Sony has revived the Walkman with three digital music players priced from $1,899 to $5,899, the flagship built around a gold-plated oxygen-free copper chassis. No European price or release date has been given, and the EU’s rule on user-replaceable batteries applies from 18 February 2027.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/sony-walkman-gold-5899-no-eu-date]]> <![CDATA[October 15, 2026 - 5:19 pm]]> <![CDATA[23/10/2026 21:05:43]]> <![CDATA[US EV sales rose 6.1% on the previous quarter to almost 263,000, their highest in a year, against more than 437,000 in the same quarter of 2025. Europe registered 277,006 electric cars in July alone.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/us-ev-sales-q3-rebound-europe]]> <![CDATA[October 14, 2026 - 4:30 pm]]> <![CDATA[23/10/2026 21:05:43]]> <![CDATA[The US passed 80,000 public fast-charging ports for the first time, adding 4,106 in the third quarter, a 12% drop on a year earlier. The EU counted 212,439 public DC points in April and added nearly 18,000 of them in four months.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/us-fast-charging-80000-ports-q3]]> <![CDATA[October 14, 2026 - 3:00 pm]]> <![CDATA[23/10/2026 21:05:43]]> <![CDATA[Volkswagen sold 1,421 electric cars in the United States in the third quarter, a 90% fall, after ending ID.4 production and halting imports of its electric minivan. In Europe battery electric cars took 29% of new registrations in August.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/vw-us-ev-sales-drop-europe]]> <![CDATA[October 13, 2026 - 5:18 pm]]> <![CDATA[23/10/2026 21:05:43]]> <![CDATA[Executives from NTT Data, Brookfield and Infosys say electricity and skilled labour, not chips, now limit how fast AI data centres get built. In Europe the binding constraint is worse, with grid connections in congested markets running to ten years.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-data-centre-power-talent]]> <![CDATA[October 13, 2026 - 4:19 pm]]> <![CDATA[23/10/2026 21:05:43]]> <![CDATA[AMD has published Helion, an open rack blueprint for running AI agents rather than training models, with a CPU-only version holding up to 32,768 cores. Partner systems are due in November, and the pitch is how many agents fit in each watt.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/amd-helion-agentic-rack-power]]> <![CDATA[October 12, 2026 - 6:29 pm]]> <![CDATA[23/10/2026 21:05:43]]>