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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Crown Castle bullish on carrier spectrum deployment, says it can support SpaceX's terrestrial dreams
As the tower company sees an opportunity to support SpaceX's terrestrial rollout
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Short seller bets against Csquare, says data center firm's shares are worthless
Concerns over portfolio and capital structure
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Meta details Ohio Prometheus data center campus, with first phase live
Has already been used to train Muse
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Oregon city declares state of emergency over lost data center revenue amid state-wide ban
City of Umatilla was relying on tax revenues due to come in from Sabey and Amazon
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Google's fiber unit to snap up dark fiber leasing contract from Ting Fiber in Colorado Springs
As Ting Fiber set for Colorado Springs exit in late March 2027
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Vertical Semiconductor awarded $73m in CHIPS Act funding to support vGaN transistor development
The agreement will see the Department of Commerce take a minority stake in the company
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InsurTech company Reliance Global Group to acquire GPU cloud company and pivot strategy
Will rebrand as GPU Exchange
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Aleria to deploy Nvidia Blackwell and Vera Rubin GPUs in US and UAE
Neocloud partners with DDN on deployment
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SpaceX aims to access 80,000 US cell sites for wireless network
The company has even held talks with US tower giant Crown Castle
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US Department of Commerce commits up to $389m in R&D funding to power semiconductors for fusion and advanced computing
Google-backed CFS and Microsoft-backed Helion to receive R&D funding
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Innio signs 620MW gas engine order with undisclosed US data center developer
Builds on 1.1GW order signed in July
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Endeavour partners with US desalination firm Trevi to turn data center waste heat into clean water
First deployments expected across Endeavour's US data center portfolio
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Pilot Fiber to buy Boldyn Network's New York-New Jersey metro fiber business
As company also raises $330m in financing
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Gigawatt-scale data center proposed for steel mill in Illinois
TerraWatt eyes former Alton Steel site
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Microsoft files for data center campus in Floyd County, Georgia
Will feature three data center buildings
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Google signs 1GW virtual power plant deal with Voltus
Biggest VPP deal signed by a hyperscaler to date
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AT&T CEO John Stankey not getting twisted over SpaceX’s spectrum salvo
'I wouldn't over rotate on what I would call one carrier of low-band spectrum,' Stankey said on AT&T's latest earnings call
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Canada's Uniserve to launch 1MW data center in Vancouver
Company developing facility next door to existing data center
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Former OpenAI head of data centers joins Nvidia to help lead DSX Platform team
Chris Malone announced new role two months after OpenAI departure was reported
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T-Mobile claims world first AI-RAN call with Nokia and Nvidia
The call was completed from a commercial cell site in Bellevue, Washington
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US considering 35 data center-related developments on public land, land records say
17 relate to campuses, 13 to broader AI infrastructure
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Soluna and Applied Digital to build 50MW data center in Texas
Companies to build on Soluna’s Dorothy 3 site, lease capacity to Applied spin-out ChronoScale
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OpenAI hires new energy regulatory lead
Will Friedman joins from AWS
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Memphis councilors reject 18-month data center moratorium
Instead, they ban new projects for 135 days
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Vantage signs 1GW solid-state transformer supply deal with Heron Power
Will supply the data center firm with its Heron Link SST
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Water harvesting firm Aquaria launches pilot for modular onsite water supply system for data center sector
First units to be shipped in Q3 2027
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Amazon withdraws application for data center campus at GWU site in Ashburn, Virginia
Cloud giant backs off proposals after pushback from Loudoun County officials
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AT&T copper retirement pushes on as carrier reveals just 1% still using legacy technology
As the carrier continues to push its fiber rollout