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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Google commits to $15bn investment in Malaysian data centers
Investments will occur during 2027 and 2028
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Big four hyperscalers raising more than $131 billion in debt and equity for AI buildout
Amazon alone discloses $80bn loan facility
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Anthropic S-1 update reveals $895.4bn in cloud and data center commitments
Revenues up, but growth slows
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Google eyes 1,000 acres for 1.2GW data center in Goochland County, Virginia
Would be developed in the West Creek Business Park
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Google's Project Suncatcher runs first workload on orbital TPU, but company admits space data centers cost 100x more than terrestrial
AI poetry proves the system works, but finances remain unclear
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Wisconsin utility Alliant Energy expects to sign 1GW of data center supply contracts in next six months
Adds to 3.4GW of contracted data center demand
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Google commits $160m to develop water treatment plant for planned data center in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia
Will also serve the local community
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Synergy: Enterprise cloud infrastructure spending jumped 55% YoY in Q3
The 12th consecutive quarter of growth
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Google buys 56 hectares in Hamina, Finland, amid ongoing issues over Muhos tree-felling
Finnish firm Tekova plans 50MW data center in Perho, SRV backs out of 40MW project in Eura
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Lightmatter's lead ASIC engineer Clifford Chao joins OpenAI as silicon lead
Also worked at Google on TPUs
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Finnish police open criminal investigation into Google over reported mass tree felling at data center site
Google said it will "cooperate with the investigation"
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PG&E sees marginal increase in data center pipeline
240MW of which is in the construction phase
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Google share price slumps as AI data center build-out drives $9bn negative cashflow
Search and cloud giant says capex spending will continue as planned
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Oracle will offer Google’s TPU AI chips via OCI in multi-gigawatt deployment
Will be the first hyperscaler to offer Google’s TPU outside of Google
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Google data center hearing in Hermantown, Minnesota, shut down due to protests
Hearing pushed back a day, but project faces lawsuits and other challenges
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Google ordered to suspend site work at two data centers in Finland following tree clearing controversy
An estimated 250,000 trees were cleared at its Muhos site
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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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Google experiences "service disruption" in UK cloud region
Number of banks report issues
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Google-backed Symbiosis Coalition signs 320,000 ton carbon removal deal with agroforestry firm Working Trees
Will support the conversion of degraded cattle pastures in Brazil into mixed-species silvopasture systems
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Google expands partnership with Entergy Arkansas, will fund renewable energy and grid upgrades for West Memphis data center
Inks 440MW PPA and backs two BESS projects
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Google explores data center site in Roanoke County, Virginia
Evaluates the Wood Haven Technology Park as a site for project
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Google-backed carbon buying consortium Frontier signs $11.7m removal deal with 44.01
The contract covers 20,932 tons of carbon
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Google's EMEA energy team hiring for range of new positions
Further opportunities in the energy space at Google
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Google signs 20-year PPA with AEP for 702MW Wyoming fuel cell project
Fuel cells to be supplied by Bloom Energy
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IURC approves AES Indiana plan for $1.3bn solar, storage, and transmission project for Google data center in Monrovia
Google is expected to pay for all the costs associated with the project
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Google data center strategic sourcing exec heads to OpenAI
Allyson Fealtman to focus on high-speed interconnect and rack power
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Google's Jacqueline Dory Prescott named data center portfolio lead at Anthropic
Yet another Googler heads to Anthropic
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Google's global head of advanced energy departs company
Michael Terrell leaves Google after 19 years