DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Sustainability, 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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Firmus signs 600MW energy supply agreement in South Australia
Will support next phase of Project Southgate
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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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Amazon signs 28MW PPA with OX2 in Poland
Will come from a 40MW onshore wind farm
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Lambda brings Nvidia GB300 NVL72 systems online at hydrogen-powered ECL data center
Claims the deployment uses zero water and has zero emissions
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UK's Lancaster City Council to get new data center
Waste heat will go to Salt Ayre Leisure Centre next door
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Microsoft signs 4.9 million-tonne carbon removal deal with Vaulted Deep
Palo Alto Networks also signs carbon offtake agreement
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CoreWeave has "large scale" solar and wind PPA in Spain
Company also close to launching new data center with 100MW solar farm adjacent
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India's Tata Power migrates workloads to AWS
Indian power company is turning to cloud computing to accelerate energy transition
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British Gas teams up with Heata to explore using cloud computing to warm homes
Heata's distributed cloud platform to be deployed in UK trial
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INZET and Sustainability Economics sign MoU for clean energy powered data centers in Bali
Aims to drive forward Bali's energy transition to Net Zero
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AWS global data centers achieved PUE of 1.15 in 2023
Company reveals PUE numbers for the first time
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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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Rakuten to deploy Ampere Arm CPUs at data centers
Trials found 36 percent energy saving per rack
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Crusoe partners with Vast Data for high performance storage on Crusoe Cloud
Also collaborates with SES AI Corporation on material discovery
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Advanced Cooling Technologies gets $1m in federal funding for data center cooling solutions
Will be used to help make more efficient cooling systems
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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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Former Compaq Computer campus gets $40m investment for AI data center upgrade
Will house 774,000 sq ft data center
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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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Endolith to boost copper extraction with microbes
Company says it can increase yield by 10 percent
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Scala Data Centers issues green debentures worth $250m
Will be used to fund completion of 36MW data center in São Paulo
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CyrusOne breaks ground on FRA7 data center in Frankfurt, Germany
Will be part of waste heat utilization project
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PeaSoup teams up with Midas, Centersquare, and Castrol for HPC in the cloud
Will see cloud provider using immersion cooling for HPC
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UK's Queen Mary University of London to reuse heat from data center
Will be used to heat campus facilities
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Google buys stake in BlackRock-owned solar power firm in Taiwan
Also gains rights for up to 300MW of solar power
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Energy Cluster Denmark and Aalborg University team up for heat reuse project
CO2-neutral cooling solution can deliver heat to nearby buildings
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Spark data center to heat surfing lagoon in Auckland, New Zealand
Partners with surf park creator Aventuur
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Panasonic Group saves 180 tons of CO2 by upgrading data center
Company also completes first phase of cloud migration of internal systems to Oracle