The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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News - The Management & Operations 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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Theft of AI equipment hits $150m in 2026, with fraud responsible for 92% of incidents – report
Reports of stolen data center equipment up 34 percent since 2024, cargo risk management firm Overhaul 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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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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D-Wave partners with University of Arkansas for research into supply chain-based quantum applications
Quantum firm will work with the university’s Supply Chain Management Research Center on the project
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Anthropic publicly confirms it is putting together an in-house chip design team
Rumors AI company was looking to develop its own custom silicon first emerged earlier this year
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Intel planning job cuts to its data center group - report
Unclear how many roles will be impacted
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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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Small number of workers exposed to fluorine gas leak at SK Hynix Cheongju campus – report
Fire also broke out at the site, but incident is now under control
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Samsung strike action postponed after company reaches tentative agreement with the union
Unionized workers will now vote on the agreement
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UK Semiconductor Centre appoints chip veteran Andy McLean as its first CEO
McLean has previously worked at Analog Devices, Texas Instruments, and National Semiconductor
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Intel appoints Pushkar Ranade as CTO
Chipmaker has also hired former Qualcomm exec Alex Katouzian to oversee its Client Computing & Physical AI Group
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More than 30,000 Samsung workers take to the streets to demand greater share of AI profits
The rally foreshadows 18 days of planned strike action set to take place in May
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Samsung asks court to stop workers engaging in “illegal activities” during upcoming strike
Unions undertaking planned industrial action have labeled the move a “declaration of war”
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GlobalFoundries sues Tower Semiconductor, accuses chipmaker of patent infringement
GF claims Tower has infringed 11 of its US patents
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Amazon’s Trainium product lead has left the company – report
Not known where he will be working next
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Samsung Electronics workers in South Korea vote in favor of strike action in May
Walkout comes almost two years after union carried out first-ever strike in company’s history
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Three at Supermicro charged with smuggling Nvidia GPU servers into China, including company co-founder
One of the defendants is a co-founder of the server manufacturer
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Qualcomm hires former Intel Foundry SVP Kevin O’Buckley to lead global operations and supply chain
Latest high-profile executive to leave the chipmaker
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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
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Pure Storage rebrands to Everpure, announces 1touch acquisition
New identity reflects its “greater impact from reshaping storage to defining the future of data management”
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PsiQuantum appoints former AMD president Victor Peng as interim CEO
Australian quantum computing is now searching for a permanent new chief executive
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Intel hires chief GPU architect to oversee company’s AI accelerator efforts
Project will reportedly be led by former Qualcomm exec Eric Demmers
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IQM Quantum Computer scraps co-CEO model, appoints co-founder Jan Goetz as sole leader
Mikko Välimäki who led the company alongside Goetz will leave at the end of March
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Intel claims lawsuit filed against former TSMC exec accused of trade secret theft has “no merit”
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan said in internal memo Wei-Jen Lo has the company’s full support
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Synopsys to cut workforce by 10%
Restructuring plan follows closure of company’s acquisition of Ansys
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Intel chief technology and AI officer leaves role after six months for OpenAI
Prior to his appointment in April, Sachin Katti had led Intel’s networking and Edge group
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Intel AI data center VP leaves company for role at AMD – report
Latest instance of Intel silicon exec leaving for chipmaker for rival company