Kirloskar Oil Engines Secures 192 MW Order to Power HyperNext’s AI‑Ready Hyperscale Data Centers

Kirloskar Oil Engines Limited (KOEL), one of India's leading manufacturers of power generation solutions, today announced a significant order from HyperNext, a next-generation digital infrastructure company focused on delivering hyperscale-ready, AI-enabled data center solutions. The order comprises 192 MW, 96 units of KOEL's 2500 kVA Optiprime™ Dual Core power systems, representing one of the largest deployments of high-capacity power systems for hyperscale data centres in India.

(L - R) Akhil Saraf, Global Head, New Energy & CEO Kirloskar Solar; Madan Patil, President - Global Power Generation; Rahul Sahai C

The deployment will support HyperNext's mission to build resilient, scalable, and energy-efficient digital infrastructure capable of meeting the rapidly growing demands of cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and mission-critical enterprise workloads.

HyperNext has emerged as an innovative force in the digital infrastructure sector, developing future-ready data center ecosystems designed to support AI workloads, hyperscale cloud deployments, and enterprise digital transformation initiatives. The company's focus on sustainability, operational excellence, and advanced technology architecture aligns closely with KOEL's commitment to delivering reliable and efficient power solutions.

Harsh Macwann, Group CEO, HyperNext, said, "As we continue to expand our digital infrastructure footprint, reliability and performance remain central to our design philosophy. KOEL's Optiprime™ solution offers the scale, engineering sophistication, and proven operational performance required for our mission-critical environments. Being India’s first data centre with an 800VDC power architecture, this partnership reflects our shared commitment to enabling the next generation of digital infrastructure while maintaining the highest standards of operational resilience."

The collaboration highlights the convergence of two organizations focused on powering India's digital future—HyperNext through advanced data center infrastructure and KOEL through innovative power generation technologies.

The Optiprime™ platform combines multiple high-performance cores into a single integrated power system, delivering industry-leading power density, operational efficiency, and reliability. Designed specifically for hyperscale and mission-critical environments, these Uptime™ certified, DCCP (Data Centre Continuous Power) power systems platform enables data centre operators to optimize footprint utilization while ensuring uninterrupted power availability.

"This order reflects the growing confidence that digital infrastructure leaders place in KOEL's engineering capabilities and our ability to deliver reliable, high-performance power solutions at scale," said Madan Patil, President- Global Powergen Business, Kirloskar Oil Engines Limited. "As AI and cloud adoption accelerate globally, data centers require robust and resilient backup power systems that can support ever-increasing energy demands. Our Optiprime™ platform has been developed precisely to address these challenges, delivering exceptional performance, reliability, and operational efficiency for Hyperscale data centres."

With decades of manufacturing excellence and a growing portfolio of solutions tailored for mission-critical applications, KOEL continues to strengthen its position as a trusted partner for hyperscale data centers, cloud service providers, colocation operators, and enterprise customers across India and global markets.

As digital transformation, AI adoption, and data-intensive applications continue to drive unprecedented growth in infrastructure demand, partnerships such as this demonstrate the critical role of reliable power systems in enabling the digital economy.

SpaceX Launches Classified US Spy Satellite

SpaceX has once again demonstrated its central role in America’s national security space strategy with the launch of a classified spy satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). The mission, designated NROL‑105, lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. While the payload details remain secret, the launch is part of the NRO’s proliferated architecture—a distributed constellation of smaller satellites designed to enhance resilience, coverage, and adaptability in orbit.
The Falcon 9 booster successfully returned to Landing Zone 4, reinforcing SpaceX’s reusability model. This capability is vital for sustaining the high launch tempo demanded by the NRO’s ambitious plans. In 2025 alone, nearly 100 satellites were deployed under this architecture, and 2026 is expected to see dozens more missions.

This shift toward distributed networks marks a strategic departure from the traditional reliance on a few large satellites. By deploying numerous smaller spacecraft, the U.S. Intelligence community gains higher revisit rates, near‑constant monitoring, and greater resilience against adversary threats such as anti‑satellite weapons.

Contextual Snapshot of Recent Missions

NROL-146	NROL-105	NROL-153
Launched Dec 2025	Launched Jan 2026	Launched Jan 2025
First in new architecture	First national security mission of 2026	Seventh deployment in architecture
Multiple small satellites	Reconnaissance satellites	Distributed surveillance satellites
$1.8B Starshield contract	Booster recovery success	Nearly 100 satellites deployed in 2025

Strategic and Geopolitical Dimensions

The launch highlights the growing militarization of space. China continues to invest in direct‑ascent anti‑satellite missiles and electronic warfare systems, while Russia has tested co‑orbital satellites capable of maneuvering dangerously close to U.S. assets. Against this backdrop, the U.S. strategy of distributed resilience ensures that no single strike could cripple its intelligence network.
Equally significant is the role of commercial integration. SpaceX’s dual presence in consumer broadband through Starlink and defense applications via Starshield illustrates how private infrastructure is becoming indispensable to national security. This blurring of civilian and military lines creates both opportunities and vulnerabilities, as adversaries may target commercial assets that underpin defense operations.

For allies, the launch demonstrates the potential of distributed architectures to strengthen collective defense and intelligence sharing. Nations such as India, Japan, and NATO members may explore similar models, either independently or in partnership with the U.S. For adversaries, however, the message is clear: America intends to maintain orbital superiority by scaling faster and integrating more deeply with commercial innovation.

The NROL‑105 mission is therefore more than a technical success. It is a strategic signal of America’s intent to dominate the contested domain of space, ensuring that its intelligence capabilities remain resilient, adaptive, and globally pervasive.

Tata Power Launches Vidyut Dhaara, a Social Impact Expression, With a Vision to Empower a Billion Lives

• Vidyut Dhaara embodies the Company's commitment to creating meaningful social impact deeply embedded into its business purpose of providing sustainable, affordable, and innovative energy solutions.
• Created in collaboration with Swarathma and Music Boutique, the film is a sparkling musical mosaic of inclusion, opportunity, livelihoods epitomising the endless possibilities unlocked by flowing energy.

Where does the energy we generate truly flow? For most people, the journey of energy ends when a light turns on, a machine starts running, or a home is powered. For Tata Power, that journey continues much further. It continues into classrooms where young minds discover new possibilities. Into livelihoods that help families build a better future. Into communities that become more inclusive, resilient, and empowered. And into collective efforts that create a more sustainable tomorrow.

As Tata Power's footprint expanded across geographies and businesses over its century-long legacy, so did the stories of impact emerge from the energy ecosystem it powers every day.

Vidyut Dhaara was conceived as a unified expression of these stories - a reflection of Tata Power's vision to empower a billion lives through sustainable, affordable and innovative energy solutions, and of its promise to power not just homes and industries, but a billion aspirations, every hour, every day, for life.

Rooted in the belief that social impact is not separate from business but a natural extension of it, Vidyut Dhaara carries the same conviction that runs through every part of the Company's operations and reflects how the flow of energy creates value beyond electricity: through learning, livelihoods, inclusion, entrepreneurship, and sustainability.

Through Vidyut Dhaara, Tata Power reaffirms its commitment to powering not just homes, industries, and businesses, but also aspirations, opportunities, and sustainable futures, carrying forward its Founder Jamsetji Tata's belief that a business holds its wealth in trust for the community it serves. The film marks a new chapter in the Company's purpose led storytelling journey, bringing alive the transformative role of energy in shaping lives and communities across India.

Vidyut Dhaara reflects how energy powers aspirations beyond the grid. The expression is introduced through an original film and title song that weave together stories of opportunity, resilience, inclusion, and sustainable progress.

At the heart of the film is Dhaara, a young protagonist whose journey threads through classrooms, workshops, fields, and communities - tracing, quite literally, where energy goes once it leaves the grid. As she moves from one story to the next, her journey becomes a lens into the many ways energy transforms lives: opening doors to skill and opportunity, turning entrepreneurship into independence, making space for inclusion, and inspiring a generation to protect the planet they will inherit.

Set against the backdrop of Tata Power's legacy hydro landscapes and the renewable future being built through solar, hydro, and wind energy, the film seamlessly weaves together stories from some of the Company's flagship initiatives. These include Tata Power Skill Development Institute (TPSDI), which equips youth with green jobs and power sector skills; Anokha Dhaaga, Tata Power's flagship micro collective capacity building and entrepreneurship initiative that creates sustainable livelihoods; Pay Autention, a pioneering initiative focused on neurodiversity awareness, inclusion, and empowerment; and Club Enerji, Tata Power's long standing energy and sustainability literacy programme that inspires young minds to become champions of conservation and climate action.

To bring Vidyut Dhaara to life as an immersive experience, Tata Power partnered with Swarathma, the contemporary folk-rock band known for blending storytelling with social consciousness. The collaboration resulted in an original composition that serves as the narrative thread of the film, carrying viewers through stories of hope, resilience, and transformation.

Tata Power’s commitment to sustainable progress extends directly into its clean energy roadmap. The Company has committed to increasing the share of clean and green capacity in its portfolio to 70% by 2030 - a goal that makes the language of sustainable progress something the Company can be held to, not just something it speaks to. Vidyut Dhaara is the human face of that same transition, a reminder that the shift toward cleaner energy and the shift toward more inclusive, empowered communities are, in fact, the same journey.

At its core, Vidyut Dhaara embodies Tata Power's belief that sustainable progress is created when business purpose and community aspirations move forward together.

Link of the video: https://webappsprd.tatapower.com/content/video/links/vindex715.html

Delhivery Launches Delhivery Maps - India's first AI-native Mapping Suite built on Commercial Logistics Telemetry

On the milestone occasion of Delhivery’s 15-year anniversary, Delhivery, India’s largest logistics services provider, today announced the launch of Delhivery Maps, an AI-Native suite of geospatial APIs designed specifically to navigate India’s unique address landscape. Built as a proprietary infrastructure to power 100% of Delhivery's nationwide network, the platform is now commercially available to external enterprises, developers, and gig-economy platforms.

Tested on Billions of Shipments
Unlike consumer-grade maps optimized for passenger transit, Delhivery Maps is engineered specifically for commercial shipping by integrating critical operational parameters such as heavy-vehicle and bike speeds, routing constraints, incomplete address input and landmark based navigation. Its accuracy and reliability are backed by historical metadata from over two billion shipments as well as one billion daily GPS pings streamed from an active fleet of over 100,000 vehicles.

By completely replacing Delhivery's reliance on expensive third-party mapping providers across its Express Parcel, Part-Truckload Freight, Supply Chain Services and Delhivery Local, Delhivery Maps offers proven commercial scale, data integrity, and high-performance routing at a highly competitive price.

“We built Delhivery Maps out of operational necessity to run India’s largest logistics network intelligently and solve for unstructured addresses and commercial routing rules at a massive scale. Opening up the API and AI Models externally marks our entry as a commercial geospatial infrastructure provider.”, said Kapil Bharati, Executive Director and CTO of Delhivery.

Built on homegrown AI Model - Naksha LLM
Delhivery Maps delivers a comprehensive suite of core mapping APIs including Auto-Complete, Geocoding, Reverse Geocoding, Vehicle Aware Routing, Navigation, Distance Matrix, and Map Tiles offering superior real-world accuracy. This precision is driven by Naksha LLM, a set of geospatial reasoning models that replace rigid databases with dynamic reasoning loops. By making both the APIs and Naksha LLM available on the Delhivery Maps MCP, developers can deploy advanced AI workflows and autonomous agents that demand high-tier location intelligence.

Industry-wide business use cases
Delhivery Maps addresses the specific operational bottlenecks that existing mapping tools overlook across several sectors. Deploying Delhivery Maps allows brands, hyperlocal, quick-commerce firms, ride-hailing and gig-economy operators to do geospatial analysis, optimize address validation, resource match-making, route planning, navigation, ETAs, eliminate fare disputes and driver friction by utilizing vehicle-specific routing.

Live for integration

Delhivery Maps APIs are now available for commercial integration. Enterprises and developers looking to optimize their logistics, checkout experience, and dispatch operations can contact the engineering and integration team at maps@delhivery.com or visit https://www.delhivery.com/maps

Delhivery is India's largest logistics services provider. The company is a leading provider of logistics services including e-commerce and express parcel transportation, on-demand logistics, part truck-load (PTL) freight, full-truckload (FTL) freight services, cross-border air express and freight services, warehousing and supply chain solutions, data services and software including warehouse management and transportation management systems to over 52,000 clients. For more information about Delhivery, please visit www.delhivery.com.

Essar Partners IRH on $500M Crude & Product Supply Facility to Boost Stanlow Refinery Resilience

Essar Group and International Resources Holding (IRH) today announced the successful execution of a USD 500 million crude sourcing facility and product supply facility between Essar Energy Transition Fuels and IRH Global Trading.

IRH, headquartered in Abu Dhabi, UAE, is a global mine-to-market platform that strategically invests in minerals critical to the energy transition and technological advancement. IRH Global Trading is a wholly owned subsidiary of IRH, and a key global energy trading and liquidity provider.

Essar Group is a global conglomerate with over five decades of entrepreneurial experience in conceptualising, investing, building, and operating world-class assets across the energy, infrastructure, metals & mining, technology & retail sectors. Through Essar Energy Transition Fuels, owner and operator of the Stanlow Refinery UK, the Group is investing in low-carbon energy solutions and the decarbonisation of its industrial assets.

The facility enables Essar Energy Transition Fuels to diversify the crude sourcing and marketing options for its products while optimising its working capital arrangement. It also strengthens feedstock security in an increasingly volatile global energy market, enhancing Essar Energy Transition Fuel’s ability to respond to changing market conditions and capture value across its refining and trading activities.

The transaction represents an important step in Essar Energy Transition Fuel’s strategy to forge and strengthen relationships with leading industry players, like IRH Global Trading. The agreement also underscores IRH’s role in enabling secure and efficient energy flows across international markets, while supporting operational optimisation for downstream refining assets.

Prashant Ruia, Chairman of Essar Energy Transition, said

We are delighted to partner with IRH Global Trading on this strategically important transaction for our Stanlow refinery in the UK.

Ali Rashed Al Rashdi, CEO of IRH, said:

We are pleased to partner with Essar Energy Transition Fuels to enhance supply security and operational resilience at a critical UK refining hub.