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EU exceeds first-year sustainable aviation fuel mandate target, new challenges emerge

The European Union’s sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) blending mandate exceeded its first-year target, helping expand the market. SAF supplied to EU airports in 2025 totalled about 1.1 million tonnes, or 2.8 percent of total aviation fuel, above the 2 percent requirement. Supply is concentrated in HEFA fuels made largely from used cooking oil and animal fats, while most feedstocks are imported. Investment in synthetic e-SAF remains stalled, with no projects reaching final investment decision.

AI & Enterprise

AI infrastructure boom fallout: data centre e-waste could pile up to 617 million tonnes by 2050

The spread of artificial intelligence could fuel a new electronic waste problem, with AI-related retirements of servers, GPUs and supporting power, cooling and networking equipment adding up to 395 million to 617 million tonnes by 2050, Basel Action Network estimates. The group says broader infrastructure should be counted, not just servers. It also highlights limited global recycling capacity and risks from informal processing, and notes the United States has not ratified the Basel Convention.

AI & Enterprise

Shopify overhauls mobile app development, shifts from React Native to fully native apps

E-commerce platform Shopify is abandoning cross-platform mobile app development and returning to fully native apps. Shopify had adopted React Native in 2020 to avoid duplicating development for iPhone and Android apps. It has now reversed course, with its consumer app Shop relaunched as a native app after 12 weeks. Shopify said large language models have reduced the effort needed for native development and built an internal system called Helix to support the shift.