Solar energy’s moment in the sun
FT News Briefing18 Sep 2024

Solar energy’s moment in the sun

BlackRock and Microsoft are launching a $30bn data centre fund to meet the growing demands of artificial intelligence, and BP puts its onshore US wind business up for sale. Meta is making teenagers’ Instagram accounts private by default and EU competition chief Margrethe Vestager speaks to the FT about her efforts to regulate in Big Tech.


Mentioned in this podcast:

BlackRock and Microsoft plan $30bn fund to invest in AI infrastructure

BP puts $2bn US onshore wind business up for sale

Instagram to make teenagers’ profiles private by default

Vestager warns EU against weakening merger rules

The FT News Briefing is produced by Niamh Rowe, Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian and Marc Filippino. Additional help from Mischa Frankl-Duval, Breen Turner, Sam Giovinco, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Our engineer is Monica Lopez. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music.


Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com

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