infrastructure

The US Department of Energy has opened a $1.9 billion funding round under its SPARK program to accelerate grid modernization by replacing aging transmission wires with advanced conductors, a strategy that can double line capacity at half the cost of building new infrastructure.

AT&T commits $250 billion through 2030 to expand fiber, 5G, and satellite networks, but analysts question how much is new spending versus relabeled costs.

BYD has launched its second-generation Blade Battery and a 1,500 kW FLASH Charging network that can take a compatible EV from 10 to 97 percent in nine minutes, with plans to deploy 20,000 stations across China by year-end and begin overseas rollout.

Senators McCormick and Welch introduce legislation to streamline reconductoring of existing transmission lines, projecting $180 billion in savings by 2050.

Federal judges have struck down all five Trump administration stop-work orders on Atlantic offshore wind projects, clearing the way for 7.5 GW of capacity to power 2.5 million homes.

Operation Windlord flew Valar Atomics' Ward250 reactor from California to Utah on three C-17s, kicking off an executive-order sprint to power military bases and data centers with factory-built nuclear plants.

Eighteen months after Redis changed its license, Valkey 9.0 has reached one billion requests per second, 346 contributors, and 75 percent of surveyed Redis users eyeing migration.

Amazon launched its AWS European Sovereign Cloud in Brandenburg, Germany in January 2026 with €7.8 billion in investment and ~90 services, but legal experts warn the U.S. CLOUD Act may undermine its core sovereignty guarantees.

The community-maintained Ingress NGINX controller goes read-only in March 2026. With no future security patches and four new CVEs disclosed in February, organizations running roughly half of all Kubernetes ingress traffic must now choose between Gateway API and alternative controllers.

Cisco and Qunnect achieved first metro-scale quantum entanglement swapping over 17.6 km of commercial NYC fiber, surpassing previous benchmarks by 10,000x.

Kubernetes 1.35 adds in-place pod-wide restarts and other scheduling and scaling updates as operators report broader production adoption for AI workloads.