Venture Capital
Atomarine Is Selling Speed to Site, Not a New Way to Make Power
Atomarine has already collected more than $4 billion in customer letters of intent for a facility type it hasn’t built yet: standalone power-delivery ships anchored 10 to 12 nautical miles offshore, feeding floating, off-grid data-center barges that never touch a terrestrial interconnection queue.
In Robotics Funding Right Now, Boring Beats Brilliant
Two robotics companies raised roughly $200 million each in the same stretch of August, and only one of them can point to trucks already running on real customer routes with no one behind the wheel. The other raised its $200 million on the promise that a single model will eventually drive, walk, or grip its way across just about any robot body you hand it. Both bets might turn out fine. But they are not the same bet, and the gap between them is the clearest read yet on what “boring” actually buys a hardware founder right now.