Electra announces deals with Meta, Nucor to scale its clean iron tech

Published on October 21, 2025

Tech firms and automakers both need lots of steel to build their data centers and vehicles. The metal is sturdy, ubiquitous — and highly carbon-intensive when it’s produced using traditional coal-fired furnaces. The startup Electra says it’s working to scale a dramatically cleaner method for making the key material.…

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