The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
A sustainable future for data centers
News - Critical Power
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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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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NTT Data signs 900MW fuel cell supply deal with Bloom Energy
First delivery's expected next year
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Google announces $17bn data center campus in Cheyenne, Wyoming
Set to be powered via fuel cells and gas generation, coupled with CCS
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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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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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ABB teams up with Korean shipbuilder Hanwha on power and control systems for offshore data centers
Firms set sail with non-binding MoU
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Microsoft hires International Energy Agency attorney for its energy team
Evan Pelz joins the hyperscaler as principal corporate counsel
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California Resources and Bloom Energy eye 1GW of fuel cells across California to power data centers and other offtakers
Intend to couple the systems with carbon capture and storage
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OpenAI launches 'Grid Protectors Program' to reduce data center electricity demand when the US grid is under strain
As company looks to avoid the anti-data center local pushback
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TerraVolt acquires site in Idaho to develop 240MW gas powered behind-the-meter data center campus
Acquires 1,077 acres in Cassia County
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Dominion Energy reports 54.9GW of data center demand in various stages of contracting
A 13 percent uptick from the end of last year
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Drax partners with Brookfield and Radiant for up to 1GW data center at North Yorkshire power station
First phase targeting 100MW of capacity by 2028
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Envision claims to be running the world's first 800VDC data center in Ulanqab, China
Firm has envisioned a high-powered future and brought it to life
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GE Vernova order backlog hits $197bn as data center demand drives gas turbine sales
Expects to have 130GW of signed gas turbine agreements by end of year
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Wisconsin utility Alliant Energy expects to sign 1GW of data center supply contracts in next six months
Adds to 3.4GW of contracted data center demand
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National Grid buys land in Teesside, UK, for 3.2GW substation to power AI data center
Expected to support AI growth zone data center
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Sabey DC to pilot HVO fuel as diesel replacement at its data center in Austin, Texas
If successful, the company plans to expand to additional sites
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CAISO proposes new rules for large loads seeking California grid connection
Will now file proposal to FERC
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PG&E sees marginal increase in data center pipeline
240MW of which is in the construction phase
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PingThings to expand use of AI platform across Dominion Energy Virginia's grid data
Builds on seven years of collaboration
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Russia limits new cryptomining grid connections to interruptible power
Nation struggling to find capacity for new data center developments
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Vertiv shares jump 14 percent as data center earnings beat expectations
Reversing a steady decline amid market uncertainty
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Enphase and Infineon deploy 900V GaN switches in solid-state transformers designed for AI data centers
Claim the deployment is a "world's first"
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Gigawatt-scale off-grid data center campus proposed in Western Australia
Project pivots from green hydrogen and ammonia to data centers
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Gigawatt-scale data center and energy project proposed outside Adelaide, Australia
Project to feature on-site natural gas and adjacent BESS
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Vodafone Ukraine to install solar arrays across 400 base stations
Completed the first phase of deployments in June 2026
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Ecoblox partners with Rimac on modular data center solution
First deployment slated for Rimac's campus in Kerestinec, Croatia
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Karman completes power orchestration pilot at NexGen Cloud's data center in Montreal, Canada
To extend software rollout across NexGen's European operations