The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
A sustainable future for data centers
News - The Energy & Sustainability Channel, Matthew Gooding, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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SpaceXAI facing $6.1m fine in Mississippi for building data centers without securing correct permits
Elon Musk's firm will also be back in court over problematic gas turbines
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1GW data center proposed alongside solar farm in Norfolk, UK
Would be UK's largest solar park
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Waste heat from Goodman data center in Frankfurt, Germany, to power district heating system
Firm will recover and supply 50MW to warm buildings and a swimming pool
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NetworkOcean runs GPU on floating data center powered by solar panels in San Francisco Bay
Startup has pivoted away from underwater data centers to harness the power of the sun
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Xeal wants to use spare EV charging capacity to power Edge data centers for AI inference
GPUs could be coming to a parking lot near you
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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
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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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DCD Magazine out now: Quantum of Promise
Building the chips to power quantum computers
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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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Underwater data center powered by tidal energy proposed off the coast of Maine
High-density compute pods would sit on the ocean floor
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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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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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Crusoe gets go-ahead for 1.8GW data center campus and power plant in Cheyenne, Wyoming
Campus could eventually scale to 10GW
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Environmental groups call for moratorium on new data centers in the US
Congress urged to take action
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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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Prometheus Hyperscale works with carbon capture firms on new data center campus in Wyoming
Says the gas-powered facility will be carbon negative
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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