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India

IPhone Boom Powers India’s Electronics Exports to Record Highs, Set to Overtake Petroleum

India’s electronics exports are rapidly increasing and could soon replace petroleum products as the country’s second-largest export category, following engine…

United States

Lumen and Palantir Team Up to Accelerate Enterprise AI Adoption

Telecommunications provider Lumen Technologies (LUMN.N) and data analytics company Palantir Technologies (PLTR.O) announced on Thursday a multi-year strategic p…

Carbon Capture

Google Backs US Gas Power Plant With Carbon Capture for Midwest Data Centers

Google (GOOGL.O) announced on Thursday that it has signed the first corporate agreement in the United States to purchase electricity from a power plant using ca…

Oil Refinery

Russia Ships First Oil to New Refinery in Georgia

Russian oil producer Russneft (RNFT.MM) has delivered its first oil cargo to Georgia’s newly constructed Kulevi oil refinery this month, according to LSEG…

Germany

German 2025 Soybean Harvest to Reach Record Level

Germany’s 2025 soybean harvest is projected to surpass the previous year’s output, reaching a record 134,300 tonnes, despite lower yields, according…

Battery

Wärtsilä Introduces GEMS Pulse for Smarter Battery Management

Technology group Wärtsilä unveiled GEMS Pulse, a predictive analytics platform designed to optimize the performance and reliability of battery energy …

India

Google Plans $15BN AI Hub in India

Google has announced a $15 billion investment from 2026 to 2030 to develop artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in India, focusing on a new hub in Visakh…

United States

Meta Commits $1.5 Billion for AI Data Center in Texas

Meta Platforms (META.O) announced on Wednesday that it will invest $1.5 billion to build a new data center in El Paso, Texas, marking its 29th facility worldwid…

India

India’s DAP Stocks See a Rise Heading Into October

India started October 2025 with approximately 2.4 million tonnes (t) of diammonium phosphate (DAP) in stock, according to provisional data from Argus Media. In …

Electric Vehicles

Tesla’s September China-Made EV Sales Rise 2.8% Year on Year

Tesla’s sales of Chinese-made electric vehicles rose in September, marking the end of a two-month decline, according to data released on Friday by the Chi…

Brazil

Brazil to Begin Construction on TikTok Data Center in Six Months, Minister Says

Brazil’s Mines and Energy Minister Alexandre Silveira announced on Friday that construction of TikTok’s data center in the country will begin in six…

Saudi Arabia

Stc, Solutions Sign $62M Deal to Expand Data Centres Across Saudi Arabia

Arabian Internet and Communications Services Company (Solutions) has signed a contract worth SAR 313.39 million (approximately $62 million) with Saudi Telecom C…

Australia

Australia Exports 2.3Mt Wheat in July

Australia exported 2,333,793 tonnes of wheat, including durum, in July 2025, according to data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. This volume represents …

Canada

Canada Reduced Grain Exports in August

Canada’s shipments of major grain crops declined in August 2025 compared with the same month in 2024, according to data released by Statistics Canada on S…

United States

OpenAI, Oracle & Softbank Announce 5 New U.S. AI DC Sites Under $500B Stargate Program

OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank have announced five new U.S. AI data center sites under Stargate, OpenAI’s large-scale AI infrastructure platform. The new si…