The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
A sustainable future for data centers
News - Charlotte Trueman, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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Ongoing labor dispute sees Micron pause construction at its $4.5bn memory fab in Taoyuan, Taiwan – report
Micron is latest memory chip maker to face pushback from employees over profit sharing bonuses
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Almost 600,000 Nvidia H200s stranded in Hong Kong as Chinese gov’t stalls on import approvals – report
Some companies have secured limited number of chips as large-volume shipments remain stalled
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Quint Computing raises €9.1 million for development of fault tolerant quantum computing architecture
German startup was also awarded a €2.2 million Pathfinder grant by the European Innovation Council
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Two dead and five injured following fire at Panasonic chip packaging facility in Taiwan
Fire broke out at 2:00 am local time on November 4
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Universal Quantum launches iQPU to help efficiently scale quantum computers
Company says the processor will be integrated into the systems it's currently making for customers
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SambaNova partners with Supermicro for SN50 RDU deployments
Server maker will initially purchase 10,000 SN50 chips from SambaNova
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Foxconn details quantum ambitions, wants to become world’s “largest quantum computer manufacturer”
However, technology not expected to be viable for at least two years, company said
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Canada joins EuroHPC JU initiative
Becomes the program’s 39th participating state
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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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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman meets with Samsung execs as memory chip shortage deepens
Follows comments made by Altman on a podcast about underutilization of DRAM in desktop computers
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FuriosaAI raises $620m at a post-money valuation of approximately $2.9bn
South Korean chip startup said funds will help accelerate development of its third-generation AI inference chip
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SpiNNcloud rebrands to Sparxity, announces cluster deployment at Jülich center in Germany
Company said rebrand reflects its vision to “only compute what matters”
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Intel says Israel fab explosion will cost company $600m in losses, as Q3 ‘26 revenue hits $16.5bn
Intel Foundry operating losses down QoQ, with chipmaker claiming 14A customer announcements are coming soon
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NTT expands AI data center footprint with Paris and Singapore deployments
Brings company’s AI factory total to four sites across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East
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Blockchain and crypto firm Blockmate Ventures enters neocloud market with purchase of Nvidia B200 cluster
Company has partnered with Scannit for the venture, with the latter to host the hardware in an undisclosed data center
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Neocloud General Compute raises $100m in Series A funding round
Round provides startup with post-money valuation of $800m
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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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Nvidia to invest $3bn in Meta’s $97.5bn equity offering, as social media giant plans to deploy more Nvidia hardware
Agreement centers around Meta’s Muse AI agents
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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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Cadence unveils Nvidia-powered AI data center in Munich, Germany
Facility will support electronic design automation (EDA), simulation, and offer sovereign AI cloud services
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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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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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Quandela and Quanova partner for deployment of first quantum computer in Vietnam
The system will serve as the foundation of university’s quantum-RISE program
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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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Supermicro launches 100% liquid cooled Nvidia Vera CPU rack
Rack scale solution can be deployed alone or alongside Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72
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HPE expands Private Cloud AI solution to support mixed Nvidia hardware clusters, launches Vera CPU rack
Expanding support for agentic AI
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Dell unveils Nvidia Vera CPU offerings, launches its first Groq 3 LPU rack-scale inference solution
All have been purpose-built for agentic AI, Dell said
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Former OpenAI head of data centers joins Nvidia to help lead DSX Platform team
Chris Malone announced new role two months after OpenAI departure was reported