Bat colonies can reach truly enormous sizes, some with millions of bats pouring out to feed each night, and one cave in Texas has the largest of them all.

But an unlikely ally is developing a plan to help save them — Albemarle Corp., the world’s largest lithium mining company. The tricolored bat ... specify the number, type and location of ...

Yet the tiny mammal, and its only slightly less tiny cousin, the northern long-eared bat, are playing outsized roles in plans by one of the world’s biggest chipmakers to erect the largest ...