DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Critical Power, Georgia Butler, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Scaleway acquires HPC specialist Qarnot to expand cloud platform
Scaleway's cloud platform will integrate Qarnot's HPC technology
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Microsoft plans 2GW data center campus in Pecos, Texas
Chevron signed on for energy supply deal
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Stak Energy proposes 3GW natural gas-powered data center in Alaska's North Slope
Set to lease 715.4 acres of land in Umiat Meridian
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Microsoft and G42 data center in Kenya stalled due to lack of power capacity
Data center was first announced in May 2024
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Amazon board seeks dismissal of proposal seeking for greater disclosure of climate impacts of data center growth
Proposal brought forward by non-profit As You Sow
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Google confirms 1GW data center campus near Detroit, Michigan, partners with DTE Energy on 2.7GW power generation
Partnership with DTE Energy will bring 2.7GW of "new, clean resources" to local grid
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NexGen Cloud deploys AI power orchestration platform, claims it can increase capacity by 50%
Deploys Utilidata's platform across data center footprint
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Microsoft suffered "power interruption" at West US cloud region in February
Details problem in incident report, with full outage avoided
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Vertiv & Generate Capital team up on "Bring Your Own Power & Cooling" offering for data centers
Plus other news from Vertiv
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Amazon says utility PacifiCorp isn't providing enough power to Oregon data centers
Cloud giant lodges complaint with Public Utility Commission in state
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500MW solar park and AI campus planned in Weida-Land, Germany
Will also house a 500MW battery storage facility with 1,750MWh of capacity
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CoreSite and Calibrant Energy energize three front-of-the-meter BESS systems in New York
Provides 13.5MW of capacity to the Con Edison grid
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Digital Realty to deploy gas power plant for data center in Dublin, Ireland
Following policy change regarding private companies setting up own power sources and connections
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Google deploys 100 million Li-ion cells in its global data centers
Company switched from lead-acid to Li-ion in 2015
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AWS launches new data center components to support AI
Includes innovations in power, cooling, and hardware design for greater energy efficiency
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Nuclear and coal power sites in the US could host 269GW of new nuclear capacity, says DOE
More than 190 sites appropriate for repowering
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Earths Energy studies possibility of geothermal powered data centers in Queensland
Has identified areas of interest in the Australian state
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Oracle to build nuclear SMR-powered gigawatt data center
Quarterly revenues reach $13.3bn, up 7% YoY
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Endolith to boost copper extraction with microbes
Company says it can increase yield by 10 percent
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Running 2,000 Nvidia AI GPUs costs $2m in electricity costs annually in Texas
Liftr insights data analyzes power cost of running AI instances in Texas
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US gas companies in talks with data centers to build pipelines for onsite power plants
Particular demand in Southeastern US and mid-Atlantic regions
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Start Campus increases power capacity for Sines DC in Lisbon, Portugal, to 1.2GW
Claims to be largest colocation site in Europe with fully secured power
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EirGrid warns Irish government "mass exodus" of data centers possible without connection agreements
Grid constraints could have major consequences
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US announces $2.2bn in grid upgrades, Virginia and South Carolina get $85m grant for sustainable power projects
Batteries, solar panels, and wind turbines will be deployed in Prince William County and Lancaster
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Quantum Loophole substation gains approval for connection to Doubs substation
Potomac Edison gets the power green light
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Power outages impact Lumen's Houston data center after Hurricane Beryl
Post Hurricane power outages in the region see Lumen data center rely on backup generators
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Loudoun County lawmaker seeks more restrictions on data centers
Formal legislative proposal expected in the next year
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Legacy coal plants are getting more unreliable
Cycling increases and deferred maintenance lead to higher forced outage rates