Smart Cities Tech

An interdisciplinary team at UNSW Sydney has developed an online modelling platform designed to help industry, governments and investors assess trade-offs across critical minerals supply chains, including cost, emissions and supply security. The university says the Green Minerals Platform is intended to support decisions at a time when demand for minerals used in electric vehicl...

Data center expansion driven by demand for artificial intelligence is increasingly being constrained by environmental, social and governance (ESG) pressures and infrastructure limits, according to a new GlobalData report. GlobalData estimates annual data center power consumption will rise from 590 terawatt-hours (TWh) in 2025 to 1,520TWh in 2030, lifting data centers’ share of g...

The Commonwealth Secretariat has launched a Commonwealth Investment Platform ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Antigua and Barbuda next month. According to the Secretariat, the platform includes more than 60 projects submitted by 20 Commonwealth countries seeking financing. It said the projects represent about US$30 billion in potential investment ...

Curtin University researchers have detected traces of hundreds of plants and animals by collecting DNA from the air as they drove more than 1,100km across Western Australia. The study examined whether a car-mounted air sampler could be used to monitor biodiversity across large areas, including detecting pest species that could pose risks to agriculture and [...]

Tesla has unveiled its long-awaited second-generation Roadster, presenting an all-electric high-performance sports car that incorporates aerospace-inspired technology developed in collaboration with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The October 2026 unveiling marks a significant milestone for a vehicle originally announced in November 2017, with Tesla positioning the new Roadster as a demonst...