DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - The Energy & Sustainability Channel, 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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Google's European energy and infrastructure principle joins Mistral Compute
Marc Oman joins as AI firm looks to deploy 1GW
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Liquid Death and Garage Beer use data center water usage fears to market drink with "we want your pee" campaign
Former NFL star Jason Kelce sings about urinating on computers
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DCD named 'Best B2B Website' at the TABPI 2026 awards
Also has the best audience
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Vertiv's earnings and revenues grow, shares fall
As AI data center investments get increasingly volatile
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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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Schneider Electric to acquire industrial AI business Cognite for $3.1bn
Folding into Aveva
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Polaroid ads attack data centers for water use
Slogan may be misleading, but taps into growing anti-data center movement
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DCD Podcast - What data centers should expect from the next UK Prime Minister
Chatting to Kao Data's CEO Spencer Lamb about Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham
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Trump's DoJ urges judge to throw out xAI data center gas turbine suit, citing national security
Reveals Grok was used in the Iran war
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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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Meta's Andrew Rudersdorf joins Anthropic's data center energy team
As Anthropic expands, and Meta contracts
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OpenAI president Greg Brockman owns stakes in Cerebras, CoreWeave, Stripe, and Helion
All companies with which OpenAI has entered into business deals
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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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DCD Magazine out now: Quantum of Promise
Building the chips to power quantum computers
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Google's $4.75bn acquisition of Intersect Power closes
As hyperscaler pushes further into the power chain
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Trump admin pushes data center companies to commit to pact on energy prices and water usage
Following earlier deal with Microsoft
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Trump admin and governors call on PJM to "require data centers to pay for the new generation built on their behalf"
But it's not clear if any of the demands will be enforced
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Google's Maud Texier joins Octopus Energy as global VP of data centers
Hyperscaler's EMEA energy head makes shift to utility
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Trump says US data centers will pay their fair share for electricity, starting with Microsoft
To avoid impact on local communities, Microsoft will pay for electricity upgrades and not accept tax breaks
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Three Senate Democrats send hyperscalers letters as they investigate data centers’ impact on US electricity prices
CoreWeave, Digital Realty, and Equinix also sent questions as electricity bills rise
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Sean James, Microsoft's senior director of energy & data center research, joins Nvidia
James headed many of Microsoft's most ambitious data center research projects, including Project Natick
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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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Duke researcher Tyler Norris named Google's head of market innovation, advanced energy
Norris published an influential paper on data center power flexibility
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OpenAI tells White House that US needs 100GW of new energy per year to support AI boom
Calls to close “electron gap” with China
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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