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The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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F1 regulator signs cloud agreement with AWS
While Alibaba Cloud teams up with International Olympic Committee on youth games in Senegal
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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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NTT Data opens JKT2A data center in Indonesia
Facility is designed for AI workloads
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Fireworks contracts 5MW of Nvidia Blackwell Ultra capacity at Era4 data center in UK
Will be hosted in Era4's Chesterfield data center
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Anthropic signs lease with Australian Data Centres in Western Downs, Queensland
ADC is 85 percent owned by Dexus
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Nvidia in talks to backstop Nscale's Monarch Compute Campus project for Anthropic - report
Nvidia could provide billions in credit guarantees
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Synergy: Enterprise cloud infrastructure spending jumped 55% YoY in Q3
The 12th consecutive quarter of growth
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Microsoft thinks its data centers can last for 25 years, reports strong cloud earnings and lower capex
Extends useful life of facilities as it reports Azure revenue for the first time
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Akamai launches AI inference service
Company adds new GPUs to cloud fleet, targets next year for Vera Rubin hardware
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Cerebras chips have shorter lifespans than statements suggest, short-seller report claims
Culper research claims the lifespan “undermines the entire business”
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Bull signs MoU with Czech telco České Radiokomunikace for AI Gigafactory
The agreement also aims to strengthen AI adoption and infrastructure in Central and Eastern Europe
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PingThings to expand use of AI platform across Dominion Energy Virginia's grid data
Builds on seven years of collaboration
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UK budget: Grid connection incentives for data centers under new “covenant”
Chancellor also discussed aims to help the public benefit from AI upsides
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Nvidia Vera Rubin and Vera CPUs now generally available on Oracle
And other AI hardware deployments soon to arrive
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Oracle will offer Google’s TPU AI chips via OCI in multi-gigawatt deployment
Will be the first hyperscaler to offer Google’s TPU outside of Google
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Crypto exchange Binance to close Bitcoin mining pool next month
Company tells customers to pool mining capacity elsewhere
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AWS capacity "largely" sold out in 2027, Amazon CEO claims
"A good chunk" of 2028 pre-sold, although this doesn't include EC2
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Theft of AI equipment hits $150m in 2026, with fraud responsible for 92% of incidents – report
Reports of stolen data center equipment up 34 percent since 2024, cargo risk management firm Overhaul said
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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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Generative Bionics plans AI data center and humanoid robotics factory in Italy
Could form first part of physical AI factory network
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SpaceX secures $40bn in debt financing, Elon Musk says
Billionaire neocloud boss also claims neocloud funding sources could be drying up
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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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Aleria to deploy Nvidia Blackwell and Vera Rubin GPUs in US and UAE
Neocloud partners with DDN on deployment
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T-Mobile claims world first AI-RAN call with Nokia and Nvidia
The call was completed from a commercial cell site in Bellevue, Washington
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Nvidia in talks to invest in Firmus after failed IPO - report
Could invest hundreds of millions of dollars in neocloud
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Nvidia Vera Rubin infrastructure now generally available on Google Cloud
Accessible via the Google Cloud A5X instances starting next month
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Crusoe signs on for Polar DC's upcoming 40MW data center in Norway
Will be located at Polar's Tørdal campus
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General Compute signs on to purchase Positron AI hardware
Will start with Atlas systems and later adopt Titan