The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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News - Cloud & Hyperscale, Facebook
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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Meta inks deal for 168MW of data center space at new Reliance Industries data center in Gujarat, India
Also announced 900MW clean energy purchases
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Meta to "accelerate infrastructure investments" for AI, raises capex to $35bn-$40bn
Mark Zuckerberg said Meta "should invest significantly more over the coming years" in AI
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Meta's Mark Zuckerberg says energy constraints are holding back AI data center buildout
"We would probably build out bigger clusters than we currently can if we could get the energy to do it"
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Meta considers Indian data center – report
Company reportedly planning 10-20MW project to fuel Reels demand
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Meta plans $37bn digital infrastructure investment in 2024
Facebook parent company anticipates high levels of spending to cater for AI demand
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Meta to develop data center campus in Jeffersonville, Indiana
Social media giant granted tax break for up to 50 years
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Meta to operate "600,000 H100 GPU equivalents of compute" by year-end
Including 340,000 H100 Nvidia GPUs at its data centers
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Meta’s CapEx drops almost $3bn during data center construction pause
Company expects higher CapEx next year as construction resumes with new AI design
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Dutch gov't removes zoning permission for Zeewolde land earmarked for Meta data center
Meta had already given up, new decision prevents anyone else with similar plans
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Meta spends $7.1bn on data centers, servers, and office capex in Q1, still assessing "data center restructuring initiative"
Expects to spend big on generative AI
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Meta's data center redesign due to it scrapping AI chip rollout, turning to Nvidia GPUs
Company hires Microsoft exec to lead new AI chip efforts
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Meta signs 240MW solar PPA in Texas
Social media firm invests in another Texas solar farm
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Meta to lay off another 10,000 employees
And stop trying to hire 5,000 workers
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Thousands more could be laid off from Meta as soon as this week
A 'year of efficiency' means a year of job cuts
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Idaho bill limiting data center tax breaks stumbles
Data centers still allowed to double dip on tax benefits in the state
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YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram hit by brief outages
Just after Twitter went down
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Google increases server life to six years, will save billions of dollars
While Meta ups to five years
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Meta to cut data center spend by $4bn, says new AI facilities will be cheaper & faster to build
But they may just be cheaper because they will build fewer of them to start
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Idaho considers limiting tax breaks for data centers
Rep. John Gannon says you can sales or property tax benefits, not both
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Meta acquires 500 more acres in Diode’s Golden Plains park in Kansas City, Missouri
Company says it currently isn't planning to expand further in the park
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Meta signs solar PPA with BP in Ohio
134MW solar farm set to go live in 2024
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Meta's head of Reality Labs pens piece in defense of metaverse, VR, and AR
As the company's share price continues to fall, and its data center plans are torn up
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Meta's Huntsville, Alabama, data center expansion next to be stopped amid AI pivot
Hasty shift claims another victim
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Meta pauses construction on Temple, Texas, data center as part of AI rescope
First Odense was killed, now this is paused. More are planned
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Meta signs deals for seven solar projects totaling 720MW in Georgia and Tennessee
Company expanding renewable energy portfolio
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Exclusive: After Meta cancels Odense data center expansion, projects are being "rescoped" globally
As it plans radical shift to AI data centers
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Meta terminates contractor for Danish data centers, kills expansion project
It's not clear what the future holds for the Facebook facility as it claims it is building new AI facilities
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Meta shuts down Connectivity unit
Social network to shift team and projects to Infrastructure and Central Products units