The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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News - Critical Power, OpenAI
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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OpenAI hiring for clean energy and new technology lead
Position is an individual contributor lead role and will initially have no direct reports
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SB Energy files for IPO, targeting a raise of $5-7bn
Would value the company at approximately $50bn
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OpenAI gets green light for 3.2GW power deal to supply planned data center in Effingham County, Georgia
US utility Georgia Power will construct the new generation, with the ChatGPT maker expected to foot the bill
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Nvidia in talks to invest $1.5bn in SB Energy
Would support the development of an up to 10GW data center campus in Ohio for OpenAI
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US utility Southern Co reports 55% higher data center power usage compared to last year
Reported a 6GW surge in its contracted large-load pipeline
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OpenAI president Greg Brockman owns stakes in Cerebras, CoreWeave, Stripe, and Helion
All companies with which OpenAI has entered into business deals
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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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OpenAI pledges to “pay its own way” to power Stargate data centers
In an attempt to prevent electricity price increases for regular ratepayers
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Parker Hannifin to supply equipment for more than 1GW of natural gas turbines to Stargate's Abilene campus in Texas
Supplying key equipment as part of a delivery of 29 gas turbines to Stargate’s Texas data center
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Utility Central Puerto signs MoU to power OpenAI’s Stargate Argentina project - report
Likely to supply power via a hydroelectric dam
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Hitachi partners with OpenAI to deliver power infrastructure for AI data centers - report
Will also see OpenAI provide Hitachi with LLM access
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GPT-5 could require significantly more energy per ChatGPT response compared to prior versions - report
Could require more than 18 watt-hours per output
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SoftBank invests $50m in crypto firm Cipher Mining
Japanese firm has first refusal to buy 300MW data center site in Texas from company
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Natural gas plant planned for Stargate AI data center campus - report
The plant will have a capacity of 360.5MW
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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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OpenAI wants to buy 'vast quantities' of nuclear fusion energy from Helion - report
Sam Altman keeping it in the family as he eyes deal with company he chairs
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Microsoft CTO calls supercomputing speculation "amusingly wrong"
In an apparent swipe at reports of $100 billion Stargate supercomputer
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OpenAI’s Sam Altman and a16z back data center-focused thermal energy company Exowatt
Company aims to store solar energy via thermal battery; company claims 500MW backlog of data center customers in US
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AI needs energy breakthroughs including fusion, says OpenAI's Sam Altman
He's also after more nuclear fission along with solar plus storage