The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
A sustainable future for data centers
News - Zachary Skidmore, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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Caterpillar seeking to expand production of large reciprocating engines and turbines to meet huge data center demand
Reported a huge increase in sales within its power and energy division
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Renewable Innovations joins US DOE lab project on fuel cell power for AI data centers
Will include a field demonstration at the Sky Data Centers site in Santa Rosa, California
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ABB teams up with Korean shipbuilder Hanwha on power and control systems for offshore data centers
Firms set sail with non-binding MoU
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UK renewable firm Downing expands into data center market with 500MW pipeline
Projects located in central Sweden and southern Finland
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atNorth signs deal with Calentix for heat reuse at SWE04 data center in Sollefteå, Sweden
First delivery of heat expected in 2029
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Portuguese gov't drafts new rules requiring data centers to be powered via renewable energy
The government is currently finalizing legislation
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Indus Towers installs solar systems across 50,000 telco sites in India
Intends to expand deployments to 100,000 sites by 2029
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Microsoft hires International Energy Agency attorney for its energy team
Evan Pelz joins the hyperscaler as principal corporate counsel
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California Resources and Bloom Energy eye 1GW of fuel cells across California to power data centers and other offtakers
Intend to couple the systems with carbon capture and storage
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TerraVolt acquires site in Idaho to develop 240MW gas powered behind-the-meter data center campus
Acquires 1,077 acres in Cassia County
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AWS appoints British Embassy advisor as manager of energy policy
Robert Fourqurean will be based in Washington DC
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Dominion Energy reports 54.9GW of data center demand in various stages of contracting
A 13 percent uptick from the end of last year
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Drax partners with Brookfield and Radiant for up to 1GW data center at North Yorkshire power station
First phase targeting 100MW of capacity by 2028
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GE Vernova order backlog hits $197bn as data center demand drives gas turbine sales
Expects to have 130GW of signed gas turbine agreements by end of year
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Wisconsin utility Alliant Energy expects to sign 1GW of data center supply contracts in next six months
Adds to 3.4GW of contracted data center demand
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Google commits $160m to develop water treatment plant for planned data center in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia
Will also serve the local community
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National Grid buys land in Teesside, UK, for 3.2GW substation to power AI data center
Expected to support AI growth zone data center
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DayOne signs MoU with Sembcorp to integrate power and energy solutions across APAC data centers
Part of the company’s Bring Your Own Power initiative
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Sabey DC to pilot HVO fuel as diesel replacement at its data center in Austin, Texas
If successful, the company plans to expand to additional sites
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PowerBank plans 2MW modular data center in Ontario, Canada
Signs first lease with AI cloud partner
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CAISO proposes new rules for large loads seeking California grid connection
Will now file proposal to FERC
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DayOne inks MoU with Blue Whale Energy to explore feasibility of a distributed virtual power plant in Singapore
Would support DayOne's SG1 data center
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Finnish police open criminal investigation into Google over reported mass tree felling at data center site
Google said it will "cooperate with the investigation"
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Meta to buy 200,000 tons of low carbon cement associated credits from Fortera
Multi-year deal will support development of Fortera cement plant in Missouri
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Marwynn plots up to $500m AI data center and solar farm in Grenada
Signs MoU with Grenada National Resort, a large-scale luxury tourism and real estate development
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PG&E sees marginal increase in data center pipeline
240MW of which is in the construction phase
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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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Malaysian gov’t approves renewable energy requirement for new data centers
Data centers will have to source a minimum of 30 percent of their power from renewable energy