The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
A sustainable future for data centers
News - The Compute, Storage & Networking Channel, Charlotte Trueman, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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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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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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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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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
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Nvidia GTC Berlin keynote disrupted by Greenpeace activists
‘Nvidia, clean up your dirty business,’ - protesters heckle Jensen Huang
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Nvidia launches DSX POD, claims the Vera-Rubin reference architecture will make AI data centers more water and energy efficient
Details released at GTC Berlin event, taking place this week
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AI chip startup Tenstorrent raises $1.5bn at $6.2bn valuation
Funding will support ongoing development of company’s Galaxy servers
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Optical switching startup Salience Labs raises $125m with AMD and Intel participating in round
Series B raise will support continued development and deployment of optical circuit switching technology
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Wolfspeed signs agreement with Infineon for supply off 200mm silicon carbide substrates
Multi-year deal will directly support Infineon’s conversion to 200mm SiC manufacturing
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IonQ opens quantum innovation center at University of Cambridge
Quantum firm will deploy a Superion 256 system at the center
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NTT deploys Nvidia GPU test cluster at Munich 2 data center
Allows customers to test AI applications on Nvidia Blackwell hardware
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D-Wave delivers Advantage2 quantum computer to Italy
System has been funded by SQT and will support the region's quantum computing ambitions
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Two workers killed, third injured, in explosion at Intel’s Kiryat Gat fab in Israel
Company says it is cooperating with authorities on investigation into incident
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City of New York awards NYU $29.2m to establish a Quantum Fabrication Facility
QFab will offer quantum chip manufacturing and testing capabilities, alongside workforce training programs
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Photonics quantum firm Orca Computing deploys PT-3 system at Digital Realty’s LHR19 data center
Quantum computer was installed and operational within 24 hours, and is already powering two projects
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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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D-Wave signs quantum chip manufacturing deal with SkyWater Technologies
D-Wave will work with SkyWater team in Minnesota to develop specialized chips
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Microchip Technology updates its networking and storage products to better support AI and HPC workloads
Expanded data center portfolio will help customers address multiple infrastructure challenges, the company said