The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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News - North America
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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Verizon AI-RAN work rides nationwide Ericsson Intelligent Controller deployment
CTO Yago Tenorio hinted at the move earlier this year
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Brightspeed announces CEO transition amid reports company is close to bankruptcy
Shawn O’Donnell takes the helm
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Heartland Oil plans 7MW Bitcoin mine at Saskatchewan gas plant in Canada
Will use gas from company's oil wells
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Qualcomm signs 5G infrastructure agreement with SpaceX for Starlink Mobile's nationwide network in US
The company will support SpaceX's deployment plans from early next year
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Local data center moratoria, limits, and restrictions voted in across the US
Most anti-data center measures pass, with Ohio leading the charge
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Nvidia tells data center partners to cut China exposure, limits RTX chip sales to mainland
As both the US and China look to decouple
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NBC exit poll: 56% say AI data centers were a crucial or major factor in Congressional vote decision
87 percent called it a factor overall, with heavy weighting towards Democrats
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OpenAI to rebrand its data centers as compute campuses as part of broader policy and PR push
As US midterms are dominated by anti-data center movement
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AT&T, AST SpaceMobile claim D2D handoff success
Ericsson and Nokia supported last month's trial
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Oracle drops Tencent as cloud client, losing multi-billion-dollar contract - report
Comes amidst growing pressure to reduce US companies' ties to Chinese customers
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Anti-data center candidates claim victory across the US in 2026 Midterm Elections
Democrats secure big wins on back of AI data center opposition
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Speedcast sells satellite ground station infrastructure to EQT
Antenna to sit with EQT's new SatPort unit
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Microsoft hires International Energy Agency attorney for its energy team
Evan Pelz joins the hyperscaler as principal corporate counsel
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California Resources and Bloom Energy eye 1GW of fuel cells across California to power data centers and other offtakers
Intend to couple the systems with carbon capture and storage
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Connected Infra Group appoints M&A specialist as tower company targets expansion plans
Reunites Isaac Lipton with Bernard Borghei
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OpenAI launches 'Grid Protectors Program' to reduce data center electricity demand when the US grid is under strain
As company looks to avoid the anti-data center local pushback
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Nevada ISP owner pleads guilty to embezzling more than $7.8m from Internet buildout project
The money was part of a $27m federally awarded grant
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Canada joins EuroHPC JU initiative
Becomes the program’s 39th participating state
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TerraVolt acquires site in Idaho to develop 240MW gas powered behind-the-meter data center campus
Acquires 1,077 acres in Cassia County
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Fermi's data center lease with TensorWave misses closing deadline
"Both Fermi and TensorWave remain committed to this lease," company claims
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AWS appoints British Embassy advisor as manager of energy policy
Robert Fourqurean will be based in Washington DC
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Two injured after fire at Georgia Bitcoin mining facility
Investigation into cause of blaze ongoing
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Dominion Energy reports 54.9GW of data center demand in various stages of contracting
A 13 percent uptick from the end of last year
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Viasat, Space42, and Terrestar sign MoU for interoperable networks
Best of both worlds sought between sovereignty and open-standards cooperation
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Megaspeed exec with close ties to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang suspected of spying for China
Nvidia and the Chinese Embassy reject claims of targeted spying
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SpaceXAI launching two additional data center campuses in Mississippi to further expand Colossus 2
Sites, dubbed Gun Range and Spam, will both be operational by end of the year, Musk claimed
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Microsoft buys 616 acres for $95.5m in Dallas County, Iowa
More than double what the previous buyer paid
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SpaceX in talks to buy EchoStar's Boost Mobile - report
Or explore a network access deal