DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Rack Level, Google
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Google, Nvidia, and Emerald AI found the AI Energy Management Alliance to support demand response capabilities within the data center sector
Joined by a range of launch partners, including Anthropic and RWE
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Trump expands Ratepayer Protection Pledge with 200-plus new signatories
Including utility heavyweights Southern Company, PPL Corp, NextEra Energy, Duke Energy, and American Electric Power
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Google unveils new open-source liquid-to-air cooling sidecar for air-cooled environments
Dubbed Brazos, the new system furthers OCP development of sidecar designs
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OCP members tout DC power in the data center to meet growing AI energy demands
Low voltage direct current project targets more efficient servers
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Google totals 1GW of demand-response capability in US data centers
Company able to reduce data center capacity in times of need in Arkansas, Minnesota, and Michigan
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Google to develop 'clean energy' colocated data center in Wilbarger County, Texas
Set to be powered by onsite 'clean energy' developed by AES
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Big tech firms account for 49% of corporate clean energy deals over 2025 - report
Meta, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft dominate clean energy procurement, as overall PPA volumes fall by 10 percent
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Google to buy Intersect Power for $4.75bn, gains 'several gigawatts' of energy and data center projects
Intersect will remain a separate entity
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Hyperscalers prepare for 1MW racks at OCP EMEA; Google announces new CDU
Hyperscalers look to disaggregate power from IT to reach 1MW racks
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Google deploys 100 million Li-ion cells in its global data centers
Company switched from lead-acid to Li-ion in 2015
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Consortium including Google and Microsoft launch RFI for low carbon alternatives to diesel back up
The RFI has invited a wide range of companies to submit proposals, including those at the earlier commercialization stage
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Google and Fervo to develop 5MW geothermal project to power Nevada data centers
A first step towards greater geothermal adoption
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Google shifts "moveable" compute tasks between data centers to use regional renewable energy
And hopes to be carbon free 24/7 by 2030
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Dominion proposes 230kV transmission infrastructure for Arcola data centers
Supporting Google's growth in Data Center Alley
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New Swedish energy tax rules hurt local data centers, say operators
At least one operator has gone bankrupt since a new interpretation of an energy tax incentive emerged
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Toronto smart city proposal from Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs includes plan to use data center waste heat
From what appears to be an Equinix facility
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Google's $600 million Minnesota data center clears energy hurdle
The data center might not open until 2021 and Xcel energy will provide 300MW of wind for the facility
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Google's DeepMind uses AI to predict wind farm output
Machine learning to help make data centers greener
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Data centers will increase Denmark's carbon footprint
Leaked government report says Facebook, Apple and friends will raise the country’s emissions by ten percent
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Hyperscalers drive renewable energy generation, says study
Despite some ongoing reliance on fossil fuels
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Google is investing €250 million into its third data center in Belgium
The first Google project to feature its own solar farm
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Google parent Alphabet experiments with grid energy storage
X’s Malta project hopes to fix renewable energy’s biggest problem
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Google signs 10 year PPA with Netherlands’ largest solar farm
Planning to use the electricity to power new €600m data center
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Google to receive power from Norway's largest wind farm in September
The company signed a PPA with Tellenes Wind Farm last year
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Tech industry responds to Trump leaving Paris Agreement
Tech vs Trump rift heats up, as does our planet
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Google's plan to use aquifer for cooling in South Carolina raises concerns
Renewably powered, but not renewably cooled
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Flexenclosure sells 28 eSite modules to Mozambique's Kambeny
Mozambique goes online
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Google uses DeepMind AI to cut data center PUE by 15%
Google’s brain uses its smarts to save energy