The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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News - Government & Military
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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Bull awarded €40m to deliver HLRE-5 supercomputer to the German Climate Computing Center
System will be powered by Nvidia GB200 Superchips and Vera CPUs
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Reserve Bank of India launches data center in Bhubaneswar, Odisha
700-rack facility to support primary data center in Navi Mumbai
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UK gov't looks to introduce tougher prison sentences and unlimited fines to subsea cable saboteurs
Current legislation on subsea cable damage dates back to 1885
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Daedalus supercomputer inaugurated in Greece
85 petaflops system features Nvidia H200s, housed in a repurposed building
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Kao Data to host CommonAI's AI Scaling Inference Lab at Harlow data center
Lab to host Nvidia and AMD hardware
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Nokia, ICEYE pair with Ukraine's Ministry of Defence on satellite cooperation
Comes amid strained tensions between Ukraine and SpaceX's Starlink
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Oregon city declares state of emergency over lost data center revenue amid state-wide ban
City of Umatilla was relying on tax revenues due to come in from Sabey and Amazon
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Russian finance ministry data center struck by Ukrainian forces
Another data center damaged in conflict
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Vertical Semiconductor awarded $73m in CHIPS Act funding to support vGaN transistor development
The agreement will see the Department of Commerce take a minority stake in the company
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Swiss federal gov't publishes $8.5bn tender for cloud services
The Swiss Government Cloud is designed to increase Switzerland’s digital sovereignty
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US Department of Commerce commits up to $389m in R&D funding to power semiconductors for fusion and advanced computing
Google-backed CFS and Microsoft-backed Helion to receive R&D funding
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President Trump: Data center firms should offer local residents dividends to get communities on-side
President says to 'make deals and get data centers built'
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Authorities in Lithuania foil arson plot against Starlink satellite gateway station
Comes after recent attacks against Starlink infrastructure in Poland and Bulgaria
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Canada puts out Advanced Procurement Notice for data center in Ontario
Estimated to cost between CA$1.5bn and $1.85bn
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400MW data center eyed at old Navy cyber site in San Diego, California
Manchester Financial Group exploring potential of data center at NAVWAR HQ
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India's Odisha gov't approves $18.62m data center project
Will serve as a disaster recovery data center
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UK council launches heat network feasibility study for proposed data centers near Didcot Power Station in Oxfordshire
Will be undertaken by Nordic Energy, with results published in March of next year
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UK gov’t rejects AI Growth Zone bid to power data center with Drax biomass plant in Selby, North Yorkshire
Applicants claimed the 1.2GW data center would be the largest “carbon negative data center”
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US DoD seeks partner to build $4bn "mission critical facility" and data center in Alabama
Design Build Contractor will have to provide the facility by December 2031
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Two Turkish nationals arrested over Russian-linked arson attack against Starlink ground station in Poland
Starlink ground station site was attacked last month in Mazovia
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GlobalFoundries to build and operate two new chip fabs in NY as part of $21bn US-Japan deal
First facility is expected to be operational in 2029
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Oregon Governor Tina Kotek asks state environmental regulator to pause permits, introducing de facto data center moratorium
Follows ban on projects involving state land
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Supermicro contractor Ting-Wei “Willy” Sun pleads guilty to four counts associated with Nvidia chip smuggling charges
Charges include conspiracies to violate export controls, smuggle goods, defraud the US, and obstruct justice
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US DOE funds 12 projects under Genesis Mission; cloud providers sign up to support effort
AWS and Crusoe among those to offer compute capacity
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Iraqi gov't reveals plans for five data centers
New facilities to be located in Baghdad, Basra, and Mosul
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Wolfspeed receives $1.5bn conditional loan commitment from US gov’t to boost domestic SiC and GaN production
Financing will also help advance a number of DoD initiatives
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DARPA announces four companies advancing to final stage of its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative
Atom Computing, Diraq, IBM, and IonQ have all progressed to Stage C of the program
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IT systems in southern Italy back online after data center outage
The regional government ruled out a cyberattack