The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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AWS earnings jump, but investors grow weary of AI spend as quarterly capex hits $77bn
Shares fall as Amazon forecasts a weaker retail Q4 and continued data center spend
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AWS capacity "largely" sold out in 2027, Amazon CEO claims
"A good chunk" of 2028 pre-sold, although this doesn't include EC2
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AWS plans to expand data center footprint in Montgomery County, Missouri
Also hosts open house to discuss plans in Posey County, Indiana
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Amazon pledges €16bn investment in Germany in 2027
Includes expanding data centers and AI infrastructure, high-speed satellite Internet, and logistics expansion
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United Overseas Bank taps AWS for hybrid cloud strategy
Will combine on-premises infrastructure and cloud computing
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US DOE funds 12 projects under Genesis Mission; cloud providers sign up to support effort
AWS and Crusoe among those to offer compute capacity
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AWS plans 36-building data center campus in Indiana County, Pennsylvania
Set for Homer City Energy Campus
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AWS drops non-disclosure agreements for data center projects
Follows Microsoft's footsteps
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Amazon signs PPA with Constellation for Maryland nuclear plant
20-year deal to see 190MW of capacity added to Calvert Cliffs plant
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AWS granted planning permission for data center in Iver, UK
Site at Ridgeway Distribution Centre set to be replaced with data center campus
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Amazon signs PPA with Statkraft for windfarm in Shetland, Scotland
Builds other wind PPAs in the UK
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Amazon to acquire two data centers in Hong Kong
Cloud company buys leased facility from landlord
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Amazon buys land outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Sunsuria sells two million sq ft in Sepang to Amazon Data Services
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AWS “unable to restore access” to data centers hit by Iran strikes
Damage exceeded what availability zone was designed to withstand
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Qualcomm and AWS partner on custom silicon for large-scale AI data centers
Will also work on optical connectivity solution with up to 1.6T
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Anthropic signed $517bn in compute agreements in past 11 months
Represents 14.8GW of compute capacity
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Amazon plots new subsea cable linking US and Japan
First cable to land in Washington since the new millennium
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AWS and Humain commit to bringing 50MW online at Saudi AI Zone by 2028
Company also on track for December 2026 cloud region launch
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Microsoft links Azure with AWS for hyperscale harmony
Amazon cloud gets multicloud networking boost
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AWS to deploy 2 million additional Nvidia GPUs
Two companies expand their partnership
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AWS launches new availability zone for UK cloud region
Also adds AWS Local Zone in Las Vegas, Nevada
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AWS pledges $6bn investment in data center campus in Shreveport, Louisiana
Total data center investment in state now $18bn
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Amazon plans 18-building campus outside Cincinnati, Ohio
3.96 million sq ft campus planned around Trenton
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Amazon acquires 8,000-acre site in Pecos, Texas, for natural gas powered behind-the-meter data center - report
If built, it could be the largest natural gas plant in US at 7.65GW
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Amazon files to develop two new data center campuses in Texas
Company eyes Fort Stockton and Floydada, files to expand planned campus in Boling
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AWS eyes potential data center development at 4.5GW natural gas plant in Pennsylvania
Company eyes upcoming Homer City Redevelopment project outside Pittsburgh
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AWS pulls out of planned data center campus next to Maryland nuclear plant
Company withdraws plans for Calvert Technology Center
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Cipher eyes 900MW data center site outside San Antonio, Texas
Reforming crypto firm brings Black Pearl site online early