Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Amazon and Alphabet hold $1.09 trillion in uncommenced data center leases — nearly four times what they recognize on balance sheets. Rating agencies are already adjusting.
InduPro raised $77M led by The Column Group — with Merck, Sanofi, Lilly, Vida Ventures, Emerson Collective, Euclidean Capital and Solasta Ventures — the same day its proximity-guided bispecific ADC IDP-001 (EGFR×TAPA-E1) dosed its first patient. Why spatial targeting matters now.
Terabase's Terafab V2 uses a mobile factory and a fleet of rovers to install a gigawatt of solar in ten weeks. A $130M SoftBank-led Series C — with Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Prelude, Fifth Wall, SJF and EDP — funds a line that could crack the labour bottleneck.
A satellite's worst enemy is the air it flies through. Vaxon Space, a nine-person company founded in 2025, is building a bus for the 180-250 km band where satellites are not supposed to survive, powered by air-breathing electric propulsion.
Cornell's IonNet predicts lithium-ion mobility from chemical composition alone, skipping crystal structures. The framework flagged 87 fast-ion conductors among 4,500 compounds, validated 13 of 20 top picks with simulations, and extracted design rules on doping that trial-and-error misses.
A $4 million missile against a $2,000 drone is a losing equation. Cambridge Aerospace closed $300M at a $3.4B valuation to manufacture Skyhammer interceptors at 2,500 a month by March 2027, betting unit cost — not payload sophistication — ends the asymmetry.
In January 2026, Quali Drone and RWE inspected a spinning offshore turbine's blades for the first time — no shutdown, no rope access. Perceptual Robotics raised £4M to scale it; Percepto launched an AI platform for energy assets. A $650M market compounds 22.7% toward $3.3B by 2034.
Microbes on a cathode can turn surplus wind power and CO2 into acetate, bioplastics and single-cell protein — if the electrons arrive on a schedule. A Stanford run held 2 mM/h under intermittency; a 2026 review says the ceiling has moved from biology to reactor and grid design.
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