DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Grid Level, Meta
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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AEP Ohio secures $18m from data center firms for bill assistance program
Meta, QTS, Amazon, SoftBank Energy, and Google all commit funds to the program
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XGS partners with Baker Hughes to advance Meta-linked 150MW geothermal project in New Mexico
Baker Hughes will provide engineering services for the project
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Big tech makes ratepayer protection pledge for data centers at White House
Will see Google, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, xAI, OpenAI, and Amazon commit to buy or build generation needed for their facilities
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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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Meta secures up to 6.6GW of nuclear power from TerraPower, Oklo, and Vistra
One of the largest nuclear deals in the sector to date
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Environmental group sues over energy demand forecasts for Meta's planned AI data center campus in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin
Expected to span more than 700,000 sq ft
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Three Senate Democrats send hyperscalers letters as they investigate data centers’ impact on US electricity prices
CoreWeave, Digital Realty, and Equinix also sent questions as electricity bills rise
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Meta seeks to use idle AEP Ohio substation slated to power delayed Intel fab for New Albany data center - report
Would utilize the substation for three years
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Entergy breaks ground on two natural gas plants for Meta's 2GW data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana
Expected to have a combined capacity of 1.5GW
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Entergy reports surge in interest from data centers seeking to build in Louisiana - report
Follows a deal to power 2GW Meta data center in the state
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Entergy obtains approval to construct three gas facilities to serve Meta's 2GW data center in Louisiana
Two units expected to come online in 2028, with the final unit slated for operations in 2029 for Hyperion
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Entergy to build $1.2bn 500kV transmission line to serve Meta mega data center in Louisiana
Utility reaches settlement with PSC to recommend approval of data center
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Schneider Electric joins EPRI's DCFlex initiative
Other partners include Google, Meta, and Nvidia
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Google, Amazon, Meta sign pledge to triple global nuclear capacity
Tripling today's nuclear fleet would take world to more than 1 million megawatts of capacity
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EPRI launches initiative to explore how data centers can support grid transmission
DCFlex's founding members include some of the most preeminent players in the utility and data center markets
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US DOE considers building AI data center testbed, setting data center standards, grid upgrade tariffs
Building its own facility and enacting new legislation to help avert AI energy crisis
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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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AWS restricts data center access in Ireland amid power concerns - report
But elsewhere in Ireland new developments continue
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Meta report shows the company causes far more emissions than it can cover with renewable energy
Company has grown much faster than it can decarbonize
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ESB error led to Meta's Irish data center getting free electricity, may have happened elsewhere
No one tell the Bitcoin miners
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US data centers buy 40GW of renewable power - two-thirds of the corporate market
Green power contracted by service providers jumps by 50 percent in a year, and could stress State net-zero plans
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Meta joins group measuring benefits of long term energy storage
Facebook owner wants to know how big batteries can cut emissions