DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Grid Level, 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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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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Microsoft suffered "power interruption" at West US cloud region in February
Details problem in incident report, with full outage avoided
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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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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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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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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
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Duke Energy, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Nucor sign MoU for clean energy in the Carolinas
MoU seeks to introduce tariffs that reduce long term costs of investing in clean energy
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Proposal filed for new data center power connection requirements in Ohio
Data centers must make 10-year commitment to pay for 90 percent of electricity requested
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Dominion Energy seeks proposals for solar, wind, and energy storage projects in Virginia
Separate RFP for PPAs will be issued in October
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DCD Podcast - What challenges are the UK's data center industry facing?
Join us for a chat with TechUK's Luisa Cardani
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Georgia Power increases power capacity by 1.4GW with fossil fuels to meet data center demand
Georgia Public Service Commission gives the go-ahead to controversial plans
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Grid interconnection queues grew 27% in 2023, says DOE lab
Queues led by solar, wind and battery projects
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Schneider Electric and Mainspring Energy partner on fuel flexible microgrid solution
Combines Schneider's EcoStruxure and Mainspring's linear generator
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Gas plants vulnerable to failure in extreme weather - report
Warns Union of Concerned Scientists
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Schneider Electric & Aeven to deliver excess power to Danish grid
Aeven to contribute to Fast Frequency Reserve pool
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Dublin council rejects Equinix's gas-powered data center
Another Dublin data center proposal bites the dust (for now)
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EdgeConneX appeals Dublin data center rejection
Project should be in final phase of Irish development
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Schneider Electric and PG&E launch energy management system on Azure
Designed to encourage electric vehicles, solar, and battery energy storage as grid resources
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Ireland isn’t going to limit data centers despite high energy use
Announcement comes as government issues an amber warning for the grid
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Vodacom has spent more than $200m on backup power in South Africa since 2020
South African telco nearing power wheeling deal with Eskom