DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - The Energy & Sustainability Channel, 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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Microsoft plans 2GW data center campus in Pecos, Texas
Chevron signed on for energy supply deal
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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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TGS taps Tape Ark to migrate around 40 petabytes of data to the cloud
Comprises seismic and subsurface data
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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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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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Roughly one-third of data center owners and operators doing AI training or inference - Uptime Institute
Uptime Institute's annual survey results are in
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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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Westinghouse to use Google Cloud AI tools to speed up construction of nuclear plants
And Tzafon selects Google's AI infrastructure for AI R&D lab
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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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AWS global data centers achieved PUE of 1.15 in 2023
Company reveals PUE numbers for the first time
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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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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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Endolith to boost copper extraction with microbes
Company says it can increase yield by 10 percent
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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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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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French nuclear waste agency cuts energy use by switching to Pure Storage
Sees energy reduction of 20 percent
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University of Oldenburg, Germany, launches data center heat reuse project
Waste heat redirected to university buildings and swimming pool
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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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US gov't outlines federal guidelines for carbon offsetting
Amidst growing criticism against carbon offsets as sustainability initiative
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Bloom Energy to provide additional fuel cells for Intel data center
Will be largest fuel cell powered data center in Silicon Valley