DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Sustainability, Sebastian Moss, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Siemens Financial invests in UK data center operator Kao Data
As the company renews its renewable electricity supply agreement with Shell
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AWS in-row heat exchanger to reduce water use by 9% over evaporative air-cooled data centers
Custom solution deployed for AI workloads
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AWS says it added more data center capacity "than any other company" in 2025, including 1.2GW in Q4
The cloud king looks to hold onto its throne
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Amazon data centers used 2.5bn gallons of water in 2025
AWS shares the small number, as anti-data center protests focus on water usage
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Sana Ouji leaves Google for Anthropic's new energy team, to "responsibly and rapidly scale an ambitious data center portfolio"
Joining Ariel Horowitz and Tim Hughes, and a bunch of ex-Googlers
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DARPA Smash: Agency hopes to recover all elements from ore, render China’s rare earth supply chain stranglehold obsolete
Would also solve copper shortages and other supply challenges
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DayOne to expand CTP1 Thailand data center to 300MW, signs MoU with Amata for CTP2
Plans to take power from a floating solar plant
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UK government's National Drought Group suggests deleting old photos and emails to reduce data center water usage
While the government targets 6GW of new AI data centers
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Residents cheer as Tucson rejects Amazon's massive Project Blue data center campus in Arizona
Beale Infrastructure's Arizona site could have grown to two million sq ft
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Google plans $6bn 1GW data center in India's Andhra Pradesh - report
Vizag data center could be the largest in Asia
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Sam Altman: ChatGPT queries consume 0.34 watt-hours of electricity and 0.000085 gallons of water
Small amounts on an individual basis, but something that adds up at scale
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EIA projects record US data center power use amid AI and crypto boom
US commercial electricity sector consumption is expected to grow by three percent in 2025 and by five in 2026
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Thousands more leave US Department of Energy, despite Trump declaring "national energy emergency"
As many as 2,600 depart, more at risk
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Clean Energy Capital plans solar farm directly connected to IBM data center in Hursley, UK
An IBM R&D center with a Grade II* listed building and a museum
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Researchers say behind-the-meter geothermal could power US AI data center demands
"Geothermal can meet 100 percent of anticipated data center demand growth in 13 of the 15 largest markets using the most promising cooling approach"
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Probationary employees fired across Department of Energy, impacting grid improvement work
Thousands thought to be laid off during an ongoing energy emergency
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Juli Johnston is latest Tesla charging hire for data center sector, heads to Google
Tesla cuts are data center sector's gain
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Erin Henderson named Microsoft's director of energy infrastructure
Joined as head of nuclear development
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Altman-backed Helion raises $425m for fusion reactors
Already has a PPA with Microsoft
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Trump blocks renewable energy approvals on federal lands and waters
So much for a national energy emergency
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Microsoft to build energy infrastructure technologies team, hiring for transmission tech director
Along with an energy tech researcher to develop "precommercial energy technologies"
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Trump: "We need double the energy we currently have in the US for AI," promises emergency declaration for more power
He may have confused it with data center power doubling
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AWS says power outage in nearby Swedish town was unrelated to its data center work
After local reports blamed the company for three outages
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“There is no climate crisis:" Trump nominates fossil fuel CEO Chris Wright to head Department of Energy
Wright is also on the board of SMR company Oklo
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Data centers in discussion with Washington Gas for gas as primary power source, could expand Mountain Valley Pipeline
AltaGas CEO: Sector could become among "largest users of natural gas"
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Microsoft uses wood to build two data centers in Northern Virginia
Contractors will be required to use low-carbon materials and equipment in data center construction
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NextEra says there's "strong interest" in restarting Iowa nuclear plant for data centers
Duane Arnold could return to power AI