South Africa’s renewable energy development pipeline has surged to 220 GW according to the latest industry survey. While solar PV leads with 121 GW, the real challenge lies in grid capacity and infrastructure development to connect these projects.
SAP’s cloud revenue growth has slowed as customers in key sectors delay contract decisions, according to recent financial reports. The software giant’s shares declined as executives acknowledged elongated sales cycles affecting near-term performance.
SAP’s cloud revenue growth has reportedly fallen short of analyst expectations, with the company acknowledging that customers in manufacturing and public sectors are taking longer to sign contracts. According to the company’s latest financial results, cloud revenue reached €5.29 billion in the third quarter, representing 22 percent year-on-year growth but falling below the €5.33 billion that analysts had projected.
Advanced data augmentation techniques are revolutionizing pipeline safety assessments by generating synthetic corrosion data where real-world testing is impractical. The CopulaGAN-LightGBM combination reportedly delivers the highest predictive improvement, while SHAP analysis identifies critical failure factors. A new web platform now enables real-time residual strength calculations for industry professionals.
Researchers have developed a novel approach to predicting the residual strength of corroded pipelines by combining generative artificial intelligence with machine learning, according to recent findings published in npj Materials Degradation. The method addresses a critical industry challenge: the scarcity of high-quality experimental data needed to train accurate predictive models for pipeline safety assessment.
Snowflake and Palantir Technologies have announced a comprehensive partnership that integrates their respective AI and data platforms. The collaboration reportedly enables enterprises to build more efficient data pipelines and accelerate AI application development across commercial and public sectors.
AI data cloud company Snowflake Inc. and enterprise operating systems provider Palantir Technologies have announced a new partnership that integrates Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud with Palantir Foundry and Palantir Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP), according to reports from both companies. The partnership, announced October 16, 2025, from Bozeman, Montana, aims to provide enterprise-ready AI and analytics solutions for commercial and public sector customers.
The Trump administration is supporting Sable Offshore Corp’s controversial plan to restart offshore oil drilling in California waters, despite the site’s history of a massive 2015 spill that devastated coastal ecosystems. The company faces multiple lawsuits from environmental groups and state agencies while pushing forward with what officials call a “comeback story for Pacific production.”
Federal officials under the Trump administration are backing a Texas-based energy company’s efforts to resume offshore oil drilling in California waters where a 2015 pipeline rupture caused the state’s worst oil spill in decades, according to reports. The corroded pipeline failure released more than 140,000 gallons of crude oil, blackening beaches along 150 miles of coastline from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles and devastating marine wildlife.
Oracle is partnering with VoltaGrid to deploy 2.3 GW of modular natural gas generation across Texas data center sites. The collaboration aims to address AI workloads’ unique power demands with fast-response generation that requires zero battery storage.
Texas-based power specialist VoltaGrid will deploy 2,300 MW of modular, ultra-low-emissions natural gas generation to support Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s artificial intelligence data centers across Texas, according to reports announced October 15. The collaboration combines VoltaGrid’s proprietary modular power platform with firm natural gas supplied by Energy Transfer’s 140,000-mile pipeline and storage network to deliver dependable, on-demand generation for Oracle’s expanding AI infrastructure.
