Western battery makers, which have scaled back plans for new factories amid tepid consumer demand for electric vehicles, have found a smaller but much needed stream of income from their ability to quickly deploy backup power for AI data centers.

Good morning, Anissa here!The AI boom requires an enormous amount of new power plants, chips and data centers. But it also requires something that’s less visible: new financial…

Infrastructure and political issues slowing AI data center growth and expanded production of solid-state memory and storage could result in a glut by 2027.