The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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News - North America
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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SpaceXAI plans data center in Arizona, Musk's firm claims it will have 6GW capacity
Construction work could start in March 2027
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ING Bank looks to sell $500m in data center loans at once, including at Stargate site
Further spooking investors in a wobbly market
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More than 100 protesters break into Microsoft data center construction site in Amsterdam
Protesting water use, AI, and ties to Israel
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DTE Energy ups five-year utility investment plan to $44bn, cites data center demand
An almost $10bn increase
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Almost 600,000 Nvidia H200s stranded in Hong Kong as Chinese gov’t stalls on import approvals – report
Some companies have secured limited number of chips as large-volume shipments remain stalled
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Chemours releases two fluids for two-phase liquid cooling
Will target direct-to-chip and immersion markets
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Google to serve as credit backstop for TeraWulf data center in Kentucky
Data center is contracted to Anthropic under $19bn deal
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McKay Brothers taps Relativity Networks for hollow core fiber to support New Jersey's financial services market
Will initially focus on New Jersey, with plans to expand to other markets
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SBA Communications sheds Chile, Ecuador towers during Q3
As company also enters agreement to sell towers in Peru
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Microsoft declined option for expanded compute contract in Texas with Nscale
Company was offered capacity at Nscale-owned site adjacent to its up-and-running Ionic Digital data center
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21 injured in Mackenzie, B.C., bus crash involving Iren contractor
Several were seriously injured as air ambulances called
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Caterpillar seeking to expand production of large reciprocating engines and turbines to meet huge data center demand
Reported a huge increase in sales within its power and energy division
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More than half of US hyperscale data center projects face 'regulatory friction' after 2026 midterm elections - report
National moratorium remains a low-probability scenario, analyst report says
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Lambda to develop four-building data center campus in Lowndes County, Alabama
Company says it will invest $33.1bn in the state
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Renewable Innovations joins US DOE lab project on fuel cell power for AI data centers
Will include a field demonstration at the Sky Data Centers site in Santa Rosa, California
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AWS proceeds with data center project in Walla Walla, Washington
Details provided about cloud giant's first data center in the state
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Fortitude's 15MW Nebraska cryptomine joins SPP electricity markets
Will help make mining operations more responsive to grid conditions
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Texas governor-elect Gina Hinojosa promises continued data center moratorium, further legislation
Outlines 'Texans First Data Center Priorities'
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Verizon AI-RAN work rides nationwide Ericsson Intelligent Controller deployment
CTO Yago Tenorio hinted at the move earlier this year
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Brightspeed announces CEO transition amid reports company is close to bankruptcy
Shawn O’Donnell takes the helm
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Heartland Oil plans 7MW Bitcoin mine at Saskatchewan gas plant in Canada
Will use gas from company's oil wells
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Qualcomm signs 5G infrastructure agreement with SpaceX for Starlink Mobile's nationwide network in US
The company will support SpaceX's deployment plans from early next year
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Local data center moratoria, limits, and restrictions voted in across the US
Most anti-data center measures pass, with Ohio leading the charge
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Nvidia tells data center partners to cut China exposure, limits RTX chip sales to mainland
As both the US and China look to decouple
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NBC exit poll: 56% say AI data centers were a crucial or major factor in Congressional vote decision
87 percent called it a factor overall, with heavy weighting towards Democrats
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OpenAI to rebrand its data centers as compute campuses as part of broader policy and PR push
As US midterms are dominated by anti-data center movement
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AT&T, AST SpaceMobile claim D2D handoff success
Ericsson and Nokia supported last month's trial
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Oracle drops Tencent as cloud client, losing multi-billion-dollar contract - report
Comes amidst growing pressure to reduce US companies' ties to Chinese customers