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NextEra Energy and Google announced a partnership to restart Iowa’s only Nuclear power facility, which was decommissioned in 2020.  Duane Arnold Energy Center represents a significant transaction that underscores the intense energy demands generated by the proliferation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) data centers. This agreement is a strategic move for Google, securing a 25-year Power …

Google and NextEra Energy To Revive Decommissioned Iowa Nuclear Facility Read More »

Donald Trump’s Asia tour this week may be remembered less for its political theater and more for its impact on the rare earth supply chain. In a series of visits to Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, and most importantly a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Trump signed or framed agreements that could reset the logistics architecture …

Reshaping the Rare Earth Supply Chain: How Trump’s Asia Agreements Are Rewiring Global Logistics Read More »

The Year in Infrastructure 2025: Bentley Systems Charts an AI-Driven World Amsterdam has always been a city of engineering audacity. As one speaker noted, “The city floats on wooden piles sunk deep into marshy ground, an infrastructure of faith that water could be ordered and that chaos could be channeled into canals.” That reflection on …

How Bentley Systems’ AI-Driven Innovations, Open Collaboration, and Digital Twin Technologies Are Shaping the Future of Sustainable Design, Construction, and Operations Read More »

Customer expectations and market volatility have surpassed the limits of traditional supply chains. Legacy execution systems optimized efficiency within silos, but those gains came at the cost of visibility and agility. The consequences show up where they matter most: delayed orders, stockouts, broken promises, and frustrated customers. Intelligent Supply Chain Execution changes this equation. Instead …

From Delays to Delivery: How Customers Win with Intelligent Supply Chain Execution Read More »

The current landscape of global supply chains is undergoing a rapid, technology-driven transformation marked by increasing regulatory costs and heightened operational risks. Key developments include the European Union’s expansion of its Emissions Trading System (ETS2) to road transport and buildings, which will significantly raise logistics and heating costs in Europe, pushing companies to integrate carbon …

Supply Chain and Logistics News Oct 20th-23rd 2025 Read More »

A recent report published by the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions explores the current challenges facing global supply chains, including man-made and natural disasters. It reviews the existing supply chain resilience frameworks, emphasizing viability, flexibility, contingency, and supplier collaboration. The crux of the report is the absence of climate-specific metrics and decision-useful disclosure tools …

Climate Risk Is No Longer Optional in Supply Chain Management Read More »

Download the full whitepaper Supply chains have always been complex, global, and vulnerable to disruption. But in the last decade, the nature of that vulnerability has fundamentally shifted. Where executives once worried primarily about physical shocks, strikes, hurricanes, geopolitical conflict, today’s most existential threats are digital. Cyberattacks targeting the arteries of global commerce have made …

The New Battleground, Why Cyber Resilience Is Now a Core Supply Chain Priority – Part 1 Read More »

Industrial AI is beginning to alter how factories, logistics networks, and capital assets are managed. Schedulers are using AI generated production plans, maintenance teams are acting on AI derived failure forecasts, and supply chain leaders are using AI to rebalance service, cost, and risk in near real time. At the same time, many organizations are …

ARC’s 30th Annual Forum: Redefining Industrial Operations & Supply Chain – What’s Real, What Scales, What Fails Read More »

In 2027, the European Union will expand its Emissions Trading System through a new phase known as ETS2. For the first time, emissions from road transport and building heat will be covered by a carbon price. This change turns carbon from an environmental issue into a direct operating cost that affects every part of the …

ETS2 and its Impact on European Supply Chains and Industry Read More »

A prolonged outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) on October 20 caused disruptions across various industries, including logistics and supply chain operations. The incident, which lasted approximately 15 hours, originated in AWS’s US-East-1 region in Northern Virginia and affected several core cloud services. The outage was linked to DNS resolution issues affecting Amazon DynamoDB. These …

AWS Outage Highlights Cloud Dependency Risks in Supply Chains Read More »