DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - The Energy & Sustainability Channel, Dominion Energy
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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NextEra Energy to acquire Dominion Energy, creating world's largest regulated electrical utility
Collectively, the firms have more than 130GW of large-load opportunities in their pipeline, most tied to data centers
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Dominion sues US gov't over offshore wind halt, citing data center power risks
Argues 2.6GW Coastal Virginia offshore project is crucial to meeting region's data center demand
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Commonwealth Fusion Systems raises $863m in Series B2 funding, with backing from Nvidia
Joins a list of global backers
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Virginia narrowly avoided power cuts when 60 data centers dropped off the grid at once
Energy grid regulator reveals near-miss last summer
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Dominion Energy nearly doubles data center capacity under contract to 40GW
This compares to 21GW in July 2024, an 88 percent increase
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Dominion pushes forward on flagship 2.6GW offshore wind farm to meet growth of AI
Set to deliver Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project by the end of 2026
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Commonwealth Fusion Systems hopes to build first grid-scale fusion power plant in Virginia by early 2030s
But first it needs to prove that fusion power plants can be built
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Dominion reaffirms commitment to build out new power generation within Virginian market to meet rising data center demand
CEO Robert Blue, confirms utility is focused on building new capacity to meet rising demand within Virginia
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Dominion Energy outlines long-term strategy for Virginia's power infrastructure
The plan's power generation profile is largely derived from carbon-free sources, representing 80 percent of the overall capacity
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Dominion Energy "open" to having a data center next to Connecticut nuclear power plant
May look to follow Talen Energy's AWS move
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Dominion Energy seeks proposals for solar, wind, and energy storage projects in Virginia
Separate RFP for PPAs will be issued in October
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Virginia project gets $3m to cool data centers with mine water
As part of a 1GW Energy Delta Lab project in Wise County
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Dominion secures permission for 2.6GW offshore wind farm near the Virginia coast
The largest-ever authorized wind project in the US
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Dominion to resume connecting new Loudoun data centers, but capacity still limited
Data center customers won't get what they were originally promised
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Dominion Energy says it will speed up transmission deployments, easing Ashburn data center power issues
But the power crisis is not solved
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Dominion Energy admits it can't meet data center power demands in Virginia
The high-voltage lines simply can't handle more power, says the utility
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Residents call for Warrenton to reject giant Amazon data center
More data center disputes in Fauquier County, Northern Virginia