SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — Sipping tea from beer mugs with his co-workers, Kyle Bos listed the ways his life is changing. Bos has two daughters, with a third due in January. At the grocery store, five items cost as much as a full cart once did. And on Wednesday, Bos and nearly 1,400 other people were
Plastics recycling startup MacroCycle announced a new deal with Meta on Tuesday that will help speed the development of its first commercial plant. Three-year-old MacroCycle, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has developed a novel way to process plastic waste that strips it of contaminants, making the resulting recycled material more attractive to customers. The startup says
The sprawling snack-food factory in upstate New York appeared to be closed when a small army of immigration officers arrived after 9 a.m. Following a brief discussion of whether to force their way inside, a manager opened the front door. Over the next several hours, body cameras were running as federal authorities from several agencies
Elon Musk is betting that the next phase of his sprawling technology empire will require a building on a scale that has never existed before. SpaceX and Tesla are building Terafab, a 100-million-square-foot semiconductor manufacturing facility in Grimes County, Texas, more than five times the size of the world’s largest building. “Terafab Texas will be the
Residents of a rural Texas county say they want more control over the gigantic AI infrastructure projects sprouting in their backyards. Nearly 900 residents of Grimes County, the site of Elon Musk’s planned 100-million-square-foot Terafab semiconductor factory, signed a petition calling for more stringent regulations on large infrastructure projects that receive public incentives. The residents
Battery materials startup Sila announced Tuesday that it raised $300 million to expand its factory in Washington state to produce enough anode material for more than 100,000 electric vehicles. Sila’s expansion comes as demand for electric vehicles in the United States has weakened in the wake of the Trump administration’s efforts to cripple propulsion technology.