DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Rack Level, Sebastian Moss, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Vertiv's revenue jumps 35 percent amid "unprecedented data center growth"
But company warns of higher costs from tariffs
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Schneider Electric launches Galaxy VXL UPS
Denser system for denser times
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Legrand: Data center sales were "booming" in 2022, hyperscaler layoffs won't impact data center spend
The good times will keep on rolling, Legrand believes
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Corscale to use ZincFive nickel-zinc batteries at Northern Virginia data center campus
Second company to deploy the nickel-zinc UPS this year
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Microsoft partners with Caterpillar and Ballard to test megawatt-scale hydrogen fuel cell backup generator
Partially funded by the Department of Energy
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Google and Fervo to develop 5MW geothermal project to power Nevada data centers
A first step towards greater geothermal adoption
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Google shifts "moveable" compute tasks between data centers to use regional renewable energy
And hopes to be carbon free 24/7 by 2030
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Data center company TerraScale plans merger with Swiss battery business iQ International
Still hopes to build a huge campus in Nevada
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Svenska kraftnät and Stockholm Exergi plan heat recovery from huge Swedish substation
1,000MW station will help warm Stockholmers
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Bosch plans €1bn hydrogen fuel cell push
Will build 100 stationary fuel-cell plants
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ABB invests £3.25m into hydrogen power company AFC Energy, plans data center partnership
Will pitch AFC fuel cells for data center deployments
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Apple plans huge battery storage project in California, featuring Tesla Megapacks
Will help renewably power all of its Californian operations
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Microsoft and Total partner, explore using large batteries instead of diesel genset
Plus Total will use Azure and Microsoft 365
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Atos and HDF Energy plan hydrogen-powered data center for 2023
A testbed as the companies look to launch hydrogen products for the data center industry
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Evoque, Equinix, DataBank, and more weather Texas storm
Companies maintain uptime during state emergency
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Texas data center outages knock out Greyhound, Availity, Cali Medical Association, and more amid storm
But as a whole data centers have proved resilient during the Storm Uri power cuts
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Digital Realty stays online during Texas's Storm Uri, is sharing fuel with other companies' data centers
And it has offered one of its facilities as a potential shelter site
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IBM promises to be net zero by 2030
Historic IT company pledges renewable initiatives, but maintains large oil contracts
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Texas power outages bring Austin city data center offline
As well as leaving thousands without power amid freezing temperatures
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Amazon makes its largest single renewable purchase with 380MW Dutch windfarm deal
Amazon Web Services goes offshore for its power
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UC Santa Barbara launches Facebook Data Center Energy Efficiency Lab
UCSB's Institute for Energy Efficiency gains grant from the hyperscale giant
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Eaton to acquire Tripp Lite for $1.65bn in data center power push
The deal will also enhance its Edge offering
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Ukraine plans huge cryptocurrency mining data centers next to nuclear power plants
As much as 2-3GW could be given over to mining bitcoin
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Hollands Kroon grants environmental permit for second Microsoft data center
Despite local pushback and concerns about the growth of data centers in The Netherlands
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Pakistan recovers from nationwide power outage
That also knocked most of its Internet offline
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AWS develops its own in-rack UPS
Along with its own switchgear software
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TerraScale to deploy Ambri liquid metal battery at Energos Reno Project
Ambitious tech for an ambitious campus project
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Keppel Data Centres signs another MoU for LNG and hydrogen floating data center project
With other Keppel businesses