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Lotte Energy Materials to invest 50 billion won to expand Iksan circuit foil capacity for AI demand

Lotte Energy Materials will invest about 50 billion won to expand circuit foil production capacity for AI data centres. The investment will target facility expansion at its Iksan plant in North Jeolla Province, the only circuit foil production base in South Korea. The company aims to raise annual maximum circuit foil capacity to 16,000 tons by 2027. It said the move is a pre-emptive investment aimed at both earnings recovery and market expansion.

AI & Enterprise

Meta to tap space solar power to secure round-the-clock electricity for data centres

Meta will invest in space-based solar power transmission technology to secure night-time electricity for its data centres. It signed a power capacity reservation agreement of up to 1 gigawatt with startup Overview Energy, its first major demand contract. Meta data centres used more than 18,000 gigawatt hours of electricity in 2024. Overview Energy plans to collect solar energy via satellites and send it as near-infrared beams to ground solar plants.

AI & Enterprise

Europe steps up battle to cut reliance on US big tech as cloud law, political tensions intensify

European governments are expanding efforts to reduce reliance on U.S. software and cloud services and shift to European “sovereign technology.” The trend is linked to concerns over the 2018 U.S. CLOUD Act, which can require U.S. firms to provide access to data stored abroad. France is moving health data off Microsoft Azure to a sovereign cloud provider, and the European Commission has awarded sovereign cloud contracts to several European firms.