News - Critical Power
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Grid connection requests for data centers in Italy top 95GW
Overall demand has risen markedly since 2021, when only 1GW of grid connection applications were received by grid operator Terna
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Google names 28 startups as part of second AI for Energy Accelerator program
Selects 12 companies in the US and 16 in Europe
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OpenAI gets green light for 3.2GW power deal to supply planned data center in Effingham County, Georgia
US utility Georgia Power will construct the new generation, with the ChatGPT maker expected to foot the bill
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Delaware enacts clean energy mandate for hyperscale data centers
As well as several new laws targeting the sector
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GE Vernova announces medium-voltage UPS for data center sector
Expects to begin shipping units by mid-2027
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Navitas Semiconductor acquires power management firm Claros for $232.8m
Claros develops tech designed to power high-speed AI chipsets
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Emerald AI raises $150m in Series A funding to scale commercial deployments
Follows the completion of its fifth demonstration project
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Infineon acquires Indian power systems firm C2i Semiconductors
Transaction expected to close this year
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Nano Nuclear partners with Tillman Digital to deploy micro nuclear reactors at US AI data centers
Non-binding deal envisions up to 6GW of nuclear capacity by 2040
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TeraWulf secures 482MW electrical service agreement for planned data center campus in Kentucky
Data centers' first phase is expected to come online next year
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AEP Ohio secures $18m from data center firms for bill assistance program
Meta, QTS, Amazon, SoftBank Energy, and Google all commit funds to the program
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Magnora secures grid connection for Hämeenlinna data center in Finland
Revises the capacity of the data center to more than 120MW
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Ireland reconsidering nuclear in response to surging data center power demands - report
Taoiseach said that the country is "open to [nuclear]"
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FlexSysAI launches AI workload orchestration platform to reduce stress on the grid
Will begin deployments in the Australian market
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Ignis and Acciona look to build a data center in Segovia, Spain
The joint project also includes the development of a photovoltaic plant
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Vapat enters the data center market with a 160MW project in Valladolid, Spain
The project calls for the construction of two data center buildings, each with eight IT rooms
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Prometheus Hyperscale partners with Istmo to develop up to 2.5GW gas powered data center in Reeves County, Texas
First power is slated for next year
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US utility TVA imposes new rates on data center firms
Will have to pay approximately 10 percent higher charges for power use
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Singapore gov't allocates 200MW of power for four data center developers on Jurong Island
Digital Realty, Equinix, Keppel Data Centers, and ST Telemedia Global Data Centers will each be allocated 50MW of new capacity
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Bloom launches new deployment platform to expedite time-to-power for data center operators
Expected to reduce onsite power installation by more than 40 percent
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Pennsylvania Governor signs executive order imposing strict requirements on data center developments
Mandates that data center projects receive all required local approvals before permits are issued
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Trane and Eaton tout integrated designs for AI data center power and cooling systems
Vendors promise big savings for digital infrastructure operators
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AirJoule, NZIH partner to trial waste heat-to-water tech in data centers
Initiative forms part of the NZIH’s broader work on heat reuse and heat-to-X solutions