The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
A sustainable future for data centers
News - Government & Military, Charlotte Trueman, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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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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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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GlobalFoundries to build and operate two new chip fabs in NY as part of $21bn US-Japan deal
First facility is expected to be operational in 2029
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Supermicro contractor Ting-Wei “Willy” Sun pleads guilty to four counts associated with Nvidia chip smuggling charges
Charges include conspiracies to violate export controls, smuggle goods, defraud the US, and obstruct justice
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Wolfspeed receives $1.5bn conditional loan commitment from US gov’t to boost domestic SiC and GaN production
Financing will also help advance a number of DoD initiatives
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DARPA announces four companies advancing to final stage of its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative
Atom Computing, Diraq, IBM, and IonQ have all progressed to Stage C of the program
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US defense contractor Northrop Grumman awarded $7m for diamond-cooled chip technology
Funding was awarded by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
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Trump signs EO imposing 15% tariff on chip and solar panel material polysilicon
Comes into effect on December 6
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NSF plans $100m AI Infrastructure Hubs program to boost science R&D
Initiative aims to address lack of AI infrastructure access in some parts of the US
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EU puts out call for tender for seven supercomputing clusters
The Union says its ‘AI gigafactory’ project will unlock at least €20 billion in private investment
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Nvidia-powered AI supercomputer goes live at Naval Postgraduate School in California
The DGX GB300 system will support weather prediction, cybersecurity, and disaster resilience and response planning applications
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EuroHPC JU puts out call for tender for Italian industrial supercomputer dubbed Innovate
Tender has an estimated value of €11.6m
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US gov’t eases AI chip export controls on UAE following country’s support in Iran war
UAE-based companies will now have unrestricted access to purchase advanced AI chips from the US
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Chip industry group warns US government against interventionist approach to memory chip shortage
SEMI argues that policies that “distort” pricing and capacity decisions risks prolonging downturn
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Supermicro publishes open letter clarifying details of reported Taiwanese raids
Company said its office was not raided but four employees have been questioned by authorities
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Supermicro's Taiwan office raided in ongoing Nvidia smuggling probe, more employees detained by prosecutors – report
Follows announcement last month that company was working with authorities to stop illegal shipments of AI servers
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AFRL unveils 14 petaflops Flyer supercomputer
System will support the US Department of Defense
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European Commission unveils Chips Act 2.0 to further strengthen chip industry across the continent
Builds on progress made by legislation the bloc first introduced in 2023
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UCAR wins injunction against US gov’t’s attempts to transition management of Wyoming supercomputing center
Judge ruled that despite gov’t saying no final decision has been made, comments and documentation demonstrate otherwise
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Supermicro says it is working with Taiwanese authorities to stop illegal shipments of its servers to China
Collaboration resulted in the seizure of 50 servers, company claims
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Quantum startup Alice & Bob partners with LANL and others for $3.9m rare-earth-free permanent magnet project
Funding awarded under DOE’s Quantum Computing for Computational Chemistry program
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University of Galway and EuroHPC JU publish invitation for tender for Irish supercomputer CASPIr
Deadline for participation requests is May 5
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China’s SMIC shipping chipmaking equipment to Iranian military – report
US-sanctioned chipmaker is believed to have been shipping tools to Iran for about a year
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Poland’s Ministry of Digital Affairs funds $8.1m AI supercomputer at NASK research institute
Nvidia-powered system will be available to government and enterprises
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Trump administration to launch Pax Silica-linked $4 trillion investment fund to support energy projects and chip supply chain
US gov’t will contribute $250m towards the investment
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EuroHPC JU signs contract with HPE to deploy HammerHAI supercomputer at HLRS in Stuttgart, Germany
System expected to be operational in the latter half of 2026
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Italian court suspends €47m quantum computing contract with IBM following tender process appeal
Unsuccessful bidder Tea Tek claims procedural process was unfair
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University of Wyoming to submit proposal for management of NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center
National Science Foundation would not confirm other potential candidates