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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Amazon settles legal battle against AWS managers accused of data center deal kickbacks
The long-running case will continue with Northstar Commercial Partners as defendant
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La Caisse snaps up 49.9% stake in Bell Canada's tower unit
Raises CAD$2.45bn for newly-formed tower business
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Ferveret's in-rack immersion cooling deployed on HPC infrastructure at MIT
Can unlock up to 35 percent additional compute capacity, firm claims
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Google data center hearing in Hermantown, Minnesota, shut down due to protests
Hearing pushed back a day, but project faces lawsuits and other challenges
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CTIA, Big 3 US carriers warn that support for D2D in 5G bands could hurt network performance
As the FCC prepares to vote on measures to harmonize SCS and MSS spectrum this week
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Broadcom organizes $63bn deal with Bank of America, Blackstone, Citigroup, and Morgan Stanley to fund Anthropic chip purchases
Project North Star will finance the purchase of Broadcom-developed Google TPUs
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First building at Project Jupiter data center campus in New Mexico topped out
Structural work on first building complete, three more to go
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Intel acquires quantum software firm Classiq for $2.2bn
Acquisition of Israeli quantum firm will allow Intel to become a “full-stack quantum solutions provider,” chipmaker said
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Microcapsules in the walls of data centers could help absorb server heat
Novel material could supplement main cooling systems in emergencies
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520MW data center planned in Eatonton, Georgia
11 buildings planned on greenfield site
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OpenAI applies for federal permit to build portion of Effingham County, Georgia, data center on wetlands - report
Would permit OpenAI to build on 72 acres of wetland
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Verizon signs $2bn AWS AI infrastructure deal
As carrier welcomes Starlink battle
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Fireworks to lease data center capacity in Dallas, Texas
Company to lease capacity from Forum Markets/Edge Node venture
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Karman completes power orchestration pilot at NexGen Cloud's data center in Montreal, Canada
To extend software rollout across NexGen's European operations
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Thieves repeatedly steal copper and tools from Culpeper data center construction site
Two masked men wanted by local sheriffs
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AWS plans to expand data center footprint in Montgomery County, Missouri
Also hosts open house to discuss plans in Posey County, Indiana
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Microsoft acquires 37 acres in Licking County, Ohio
Company continues to expand its data center footprint in the region
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Tesla appoints new head of energy programs
Jessy Rivest joins the team
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SpaceXAI facing $6.1m fine in Mississippi for building data centers without securing correct permits
Elon Musk's firm will also be back in court over problematic gas turbines
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Crown Castle bullish on carrier spectrum deployment, says it can support SpaceX's terrestrial dreams
As the tower company sees an opportunity to support SpaceX's terrestrial rollout
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Short seller bets against Csquare, says data center firm's shares are worthless
Concerns over portfolio and capital structure
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Meta details Ohio Prometheus data center campus, with first phase live
Has already been used to train Muse
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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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Google's fiber unit to snap up dark fiber leasing contract from Ting Fiber in Colorado Springs
As Ting Fiber set for Colorado Springs exit in late March 2027
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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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InsurTech company Reliance Global Group to acquire GPU cloud company and pivot strategy
Will rebrand as GPU Exchange
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Aleria to deploy Nvidia Blackwell and Vera Rubin GPUs in US and UAE
Neocloud partners with DDN on deployment