The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
A sustainable future for data centers
News - Telecoms & 5G, Laurence Russell
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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Cowboy Space shows Big Iron, the 15-ton payload rocket that turns into a data center
Former space solar startup turned rocket company reveals plan for Falcon 9 competitor
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Iraq establishes first new satellite gateway since 2003, supporting security & aviation
New ground station arrives after a raft of successful international telecoms infrastructure projects
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Aselan declares 198-satellite Astralink constellation for sovereign Turkish connectivity
Sovereign trend in dual-use space technology spreads to space underdog Türkiye, following new Starlink slow-downs in Ukraine
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SpaceX’s Starlink encourages every satellite operator to share data with Stargaze platform, for safety
Musk company proposes international cooperation on satellite tracking in a one-way street relationship with SpaceX
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Astranis secures $468m credit line to ramp GEO satellite production at California factory
Half-billion credit deal implies sovereign, geopolitical significance of advanced geostationary satellites
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ESA picks neXat, Telesat, & Colt for $1.68m Cableshield to backup subsea cable infrastructure
ESA to finance emergency data rerouting system via satellite in the event of subsea cable failure
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Eutelsat buys another 229 satellites for OneWeb from Airbus for ~€1bn
Satellite operator doubles down on LEO proliferation, champions IRIS² at Paris Summit
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Satellite Internet coming to UK rail network as part of £7.8bn space strategy
British rail policymakers plan to enable seamless broadband on trains by 2030 after promising to do it by 2025
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Amazon Leo files for three new 6-antenna ground stations in Florida, Minnesota, and Texas
LEO up-and-comer sets out on ambitious ground station expansion to keep pace with constellation hyperscaling
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SpaceX petitions FCC to block ViaSat-3 F2 satellite, citing interference concerns
Obligatory regulatory squabbling causes more problems for the ViaSat-3 program
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Eight MDA-integrated Globalstar HIBLEO-4 satellites orbited successfully
Apple partner Globalstar expands fleet, intends further D2D expansions
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Blue Origin starts buildout of Quartz ground station network with partner RBC Signals
Rollout of mission-critical Quartz offering appears to cover unaddressed market share across government and defense
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Intel submits patent continuation on multi-orbit data center solution
CPU giant keeps four-year-old patent going as competing hyperscalers hurry to get them built
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Telesat expands Lightspeed capacity by 44% after securing $1.93bn Arctic military satcom contract
Canadian space champion sees compounding recommitment in funding on sovereign space connectivity
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FCC approves Xona application for 258-satellite PNT constellation
GPS competitor prepares to scale following March Series C
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Hisdesat contracts Airbus & Thales Alenia Space on SpainSat NG III after NG II disaster
High-profile government-funded geostationary contract predates the 2027 launch of Airbus, Leonardo, and Thales space giant
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ViaSat-3 F3 successfully deploys reflector and boom over Asia-Pacific, completing GEO trio
The storied ViaSat-3 constellation is finally complete, perhaps one of the last big GEO megaprojects of its kind
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Amazon Leo files for up to 5,105 D2D satellites for voice, data, and messaging for mobile devices
Amazon sets out plan for mobility, IoT market share, building upon Apple service
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Ukraine's sovereign €1bn communications constellation to launch in 2027
Danish-Ukrainian joint constellation project perseveres despite CEO passing away
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Coalition of environmental action groups petition FCC to halt orbital data center applications
Earthjustice set to take the issue to court if applications keep getting granted
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York Space completes $300m acquisition of All.Space, seeks to address unmanned connectivity gap
After acquiring Orbion and Solestial earlier in 2026, York is on a buying spree to verticalize a mission-critical package of space defense technologies
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SpaceX files FCC application for 100,000 Gen3 Starlink satellites
New satellites aim to solve orbital data center downlink bottleneck
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Orbital files for 100,000 space data satellites for 10GW compute constellation
Application claims space's passive radiative cooling power eliminates need for cooling tech
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Launcher Rocket Lab acquires satellite operator Iridium in $8bn deal
New vertical launch operator will build competitor to SpaceX's Falcon 9
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India’s biggest telco, Jio Platforms, declares ambition for sovereign LEO in path to 6G
Subsidiary of Indian industry giant seeks to create sovereign network infrastructure extending to the stars
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Northwood announces Prism & Portal satellite ground station antennas, targets 10Gbps+ per site
California firm has already deployed 14 antennas across five sites
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Comtech to sell most of its satcoms segment to Gilat for $157.5m, and pivot to public safety
Legacy satellite tech company bought by the firm it failed to acquire six years ago
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California startup Orbital joins space data center craze with $5m pre-seed
Company aims to send Nvidia Blackwell chip into orbit next year, has hopes for 10GW deployment