Next Thing Technologies @nextthingtech

Funny how the biggest opportunities usually start in industries people call boring. Energy was boring. Infrastructure was boring. Data centers were boring. Until everyone needed them. #Investing #CleanEnergy #EnergyTech #FutureEnergy #StartupLife #SustainableTech #AIInfrastructure #SmartEnergy #ImpactInvesting #VentureCapital #AngelInvesting #GreenInvesting #RenewableEnergy #BatteryTech #PowerGrid #EnergyStorage #NextGenTech #InnovationEcosystem

We spend a lot of time talking about the future. Smart homes. AI. Automation. But the future has a weird dependency: it still needs power. #Investing #CleanEnergy #EnergyTech #FutureEnergy #StartupLife #SustainableTech #AIInfrastructure #SmartEnergy #ImpactInvesting #VentureCapital #AngelInvesting #GreenInvesting #RenewableEnergy #BatteryTech #PowerGrid #EnergyStorage #NextGenTech #InnovationEcosystem

The Hidden Danger In Your Suitcase Could Bring Down a Flight. A shocking warning from aviation experts power banks and vapes packed in hold luggage could cause catastrophic fires onboard aircraft. Lithium battery fires are now said to be the biggest safety threat to planes. Worth asking…should airlines be doing more to warn passengers?

Nobody thinks about energy storage until they actually need it. Kind of like Wi-Fi. You ignore it until it disappears. Then suddenly it's the only thing you care about. #Investing #CleanEnergy #EnergyTech #FutureEnergy #StartupLife #SustainableTech #AIInfrastructure #SmartEnergy #ImpactInvesting #VentureCapital #AngelInvesting #GreenInvesting #RenewableEnergy #BatteryTech #PowerGrid #EnergyStorage #NextGenTech #InnovationEcosystem

Some of the biggest companies in the next decade probably won't make products people use every day. You won't open them on your phone. You won't see people making TikToks about them. They probably won't have fans waiting outside for launch day. Most people might never even know their names. But they'll quietly sit underneath everything else. Because every AI tool, every smart device, every automated system, every "future" product people get excited about still depends on something much less exciting: Infrastructure. Power. Storage. Systems that can actually keep up. Everyone wants to build the thing people see. We're more interested in what everything else depends on. That's the thinking behind Next Thing Technologies. #Investing #CleanEnergy #EnergyTech #FutureEnergy #StartupLife #SustainableTech #AIInfrastructure #SmartEnergy #ImpactInvesting #VentureCapital #AngelInvesting #GreenInvesting #RenewableEnergy #BatteryTech #PowerGrid #EnergyStorage #NextGenTech #InnovationEcosystem

I saw someone say we're entering an AI-first world. Maybe. But AI-first also means energy-first. Because at some point it stops being a software problem and becomes an infrastructure problem. #Investing #CleanEnergy #EnergyTech #FutureEnergy #StartupLife #SustainableTech #AIInfrastructure #SmartEnergy #ImpactInvesting #VentureCapital #AngelInvesting #GreenInvesting #RenewableEnergy #BatteryTech #PowerGrid #EnergyStorage #NextGenTech #InnovationEcosystem

People talk about AI like the only thing that matters is making models smarter. But every time AI gets better, it also gets hungrier. More compute. More data. More energy. Everyone is watching the brains. Not many are watching what keeps the lights on. #Investing #CleanEnergy #EnergyTech #FutureEnergy #StartupLife #SustainableTech #AIInfrastructure #SmartEnergy #ImpactInvesting #VentureCapital #AngelInvesting #GreenInvesting #RenewableEnergy #BatteryTech #PowerGrid #EnergyStorage #NextGenTech #InnovationEcosystem

The future isn't AI. The future is AI + Energy. One without the other doesn't scale. As models become larger and adoption becomes global, energy demand will continue rising. The question isn't whether AI will transform the world. The question is whether our infrastructure is ready for it. ⚡

The lithium ion battery, remains one of the biggest threats to modern flying 🔗 telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/li…

Most investors are looking at AI companies. Few are looking at what AI companies need to survive. Energy. Storage. Grid resilience. Industrial infrastructure. History shows that supporting industries often create the biggest opportunities. During a gold rush, some of the biggest winners sold the tools. AI may be no different. 🔋

The AI boom is creating a demand problem. Not for software. For electricity. Data centers are expanding faster than grids can adapt. Power consumption is becoming a strategic advantage. The next decade won't just be a race for computing power. It will be a race for reliable energy infrastructure.

AI isn't just changing software. It's changing industry. Factories are becoming smarter. Operations are becoming autonomous. Systems are becoming predictive. But smarter infrastructure requires stronger infrastructure. The future of industrial growth isn't powered by algorithms alone. It's powered by energy. ⚡

🗣️ “In 2030, we expect that the electricity consumption of data centres will have more than doubled from where it stands today” IEA’s Thomas Spencer examines AI’s growing energy footprint in the latest episode of our Everything Energy podcast 👉 iea.li/3RMVGaM

Everyone is talking about AI. Almost nobody is talking about the electricity behind it. Every prompt. Every model. Every inference. Consumes power. The next bottleneck for AI won't be intelligence. It'll be energy. The companies building the infrastructure behind the AI revolution may become just as important as the companies building the models.

Clean energy isn’t enough anymore. The real challenge is making it available exactly when the world needs it. That’s why energy storage is becoming one of the most important industries on the planet. Not flashy. Not trendy. Essential. The future grid will belong to companies building resilience, scalability, and stability at every level. ⚡

Everyone talks about AI. Almost nobody talks about the power required to run it. AI doesn’t scale without infrastructure. And infrastructure doesn’t scale without energy storage. 🔋 The next technological revolution won’t just be software. It’ll be the systems powering it behind the scenes.

Cheap energy means nothing if it’s unreliable. The future won’t be powered by energy alone. It’ll be powered by stable energy. That’s the difference between innovation that looks good on paper… And infrastructure that actually runs the world. ⚡ The companies leading the next decade are solving reliability first.

The grid wasn’t built for what’s coming. AI infrastructure. Data centers. Electrification. Autonomous systems. Demand is accelerating faster than legacy infrastructure can adapt. ⚡ The next decade belongs to the companies building resilience before the pressure arrives.

Every day, renewable energy gets wasted. Not because we can’t produce it. Because we can’t store it efficiently enough. That’s the bottleneck. ⚠️ Energy storage isn’t the side industry anymore. It’s becoming the infrastructure layer for the next generation of civilization.

Most companies don’t have an energy problem. They have a storage problem. Power is generated. But it’s not available when demand spikes. That gap is where the future gets built. Next Thing Technologies is developing scalable energy storage systems designed to make energy more reliable, affordable, and deployable at scale. Because the future doesn’t just need clean energy. It needs stored energy. 🔋