Optimal Transit pitches Kraaken floating data center than can generate power and provide clean drinking water
Project sounds ambitious, but is apparently based on proven technologies
News - Sustainability, Matthew Gooding, DatacenterDynamics
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Seatrium plans 30MW offshore data center pilot
Comes as startup pitches nuclear ships for GPUs, and renewable energy firm unveils nautical data center platform
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SpaceXAI to restart work on wastewater treatment facility to serve Memphis data centers by Q1 2027
Construction work to resume next year, Musk's firm tells city officials
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Lawsuit launched against Musk's xAI over 'illegal' gas turbines at Memphis data center
"A data center should not be a potential death sentence on a community's health"
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Factory waste heat could help cool data centers thanks to novel zeolite 'thermal battery'
Research is at an early stage, but has delivered promising results
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Korea Zinc in talks with US tech firms to extract rare earth minerals from old data center kit - report
Could help reduce reliance on China
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Musk's xAI gets go-ahead for 41 natural gas turbines in Mississippi to power Colossus data centers
Campaigners criticize rushed decision by regulator
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Campaigners call for moratorium on data centers in Scotland over climate and power fears
Planned developments may need 5GW of power, it is claimed
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Virginia's data centers may need to prove green credentials to qualify for tax breaks
Tax exemption was worth $1.9bn to Virginia's many data centers in 2025
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Lucend raises $3.3m to fund US roll-out of AI platform for data center efficiency
Says customers can make big savings with little changes
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Data center proposed outside Paris, France, could heat greenhouse and fish farm
Homes plan shelved in favor of data center, residents rejoice (yes, really)
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600MW natural gas-powered data center campus proposed in Hubbard, Texas
Will use AirJoule water harvesting technology
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US coal power plants must stay online for as long as possible to meet AI demand - Southern Company CEO
Firm must utilize all available resources, boss says
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Data center waste heat will warm hospital in Milton Keynes, UK
Part of £95m district heating scheme
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China's HiCloud launches wind-powered underwater data center, targets 500MW subsea deployment
Company has big plans to scale up below the ocean, but starts small
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UK environment secretary Ed Miliband urged to block Teesside hydrogen plant and back hyperscale data center scheme
Tees Valley mayor says data center would be better for the region
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Teesworks data center gets approved despite clash with BP over planned hydrogen plant
Can these two big UK developments co-exist?
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Waste heat from Météo France supercomputers to be used in Toulouse district heating system
The excess warmth is too useful Toulouse
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Campaigners appeal decision to permit gas turbines at xAI's Memphis data center
And challenge the lack of punishment over unpermitted turbines
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More clean energy pledged for proposed €3bn data center campus in County Kildaire, Ireland
Developer hopes to win over councillors with green promises
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xAI granted permits for 15 gas turbines at Memphis data center
Campaigners dismayed as permanent installation of turbines is approved
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AirJoule signs deal for hyperscaler to evaluate tech that extracts water from air
Unnamed developer could integrate novel tech into its data halls
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Campaigners oppose AWS-linked data center in Bedfordshire, UK, over water and power fears
Amazon looks set to move in at the site if planning permission is granted
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UK district heating networks look to data centers for waste heat
Government reveals schemes that could use excess warmth from servers
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NAACP calls for shutdown of xAI's Memphis data center amid air pollution concerns
Company says it is moving away from gas turbine power
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Data4 unveils system that uses data center waste heat to grow algae
Says it is a step towards creating biocircular data centers
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xAI removes some of controversial gas turbines from Memphis data center
Elsewhere, Elon Musk's company could need up to 1.1GW for a second supercomputer site