The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
A sustainable future for data centers
News - North America, Zachary Skidmore, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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Caterpillar seeking to expand production of large reciprocating engines and turbines to meet huge data center demand
Reported a huge increase in sales within its power and energy division
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Renewable Innovations joins US DOE lab project on fuel cell power for AI data centers
Will include a field demonstration at the Sky Data Centers site in Santa Rosa, California
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Microsoft hires International Energy Agency attorney for its energy team
Evan Pelz joins the hyperscaler as principal corporate counsel
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California Resources and Bloom Energy eye 1GW of fuel cells across California to power data centers and other offtakers
Intend to couple the systems with carbon capture and storage
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TerraVolt acquires site in Idaho to develop 240MW gas powered behind-the-meter data center campus
Acquires 1,077 acres in Cassia County
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AWS appoints British Embassy advisor as manager of energy policy
Robert Fourqurean will be based in Washington DC
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Dominion Energy reports 54.9GW of data center demand in various stages of contracting
A 13 percent uptick from the end of last year
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Wisconsin utility Alliant Energy expects to sign 1GW of data center supply contracts in next six months
Adds to 3.4GW of contracted data center demand
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Sabey DC to pilot HVO fuel as diesel replacement at its data center in Austin, Texas
If successful, the company plans to expand to additional sites
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PowerBank plans 2MW modular data center in Ontario, Canada
Signs first lease with AI cloud partner
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CAISO proposes new rules for large loads seeking California grid connection
Will now file proposal to FERC
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Meta to buy 200,000 tons of low carbon cement associated credits from Fortera
Multi-year deal will support development of Fortera cement plant in Missouri
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Marwynn plots up to $500m AI data center and solar farm in Grenada
Signs MoU with Grenada National Resort, a large-scale luxury tourism and real estate development
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PG&E sees marginal increase in data center pipeline
240MW of which is in the construction phase
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PingThings to expand use of AI platform across Dominion Energy Virginia's grid data
Builds on seven years of collaboration
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Enphase and Infineon deploy 900V GaN switches in solid-state transformers designed for AI data centers
Claim the deployment is a "world's first"
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OpenAI applies for federal permit to build portion of Effingham County, Georgia, data center on wetlands - report
Would permit OpenAI to build on 72 acres of wetland
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Karman completes power orchestration pilot at NexGen Cloud's data center in Montreal, Canada
To extend software rollout across NexGen's European operations
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Tesla appoints new head of energy programs
Jessy Rivest joins the team
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US Department of Commerce commits up to $389m in R&D funding to power semiconductors for fusion and advanced computing
Google-backed CFS and Microsoft-backed Helion to receive R&D funding
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Innio signs 620MW gas engine order with undisclosed US data center developer
Builds on 1.1GW order signed in July
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Endeavour partners with US desalination firm Trevi to turn data center waste heat into clean water
First deployments expected across Endeavour's US data center portfolio
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Google signs 1GW virtual power plant deal with Voltus
Biggest VPP deal signed by a hyperscaler to date
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OpenAI hires new energy regulatory lead
Will Friedman joins from AWS
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Vantage signs 1GW solid-state transformer supply deal with Heron Power
Will supply the data center firm with its Heron Link SST
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Water harvesting firm Aquaria launches pilot for modular onsite water supply system for data center sector
First units to be shipped in Q3 2027
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Hitachi Energy teams up with Ansaldo to develop integrated power solutions for data center sector and grid
Japanese giant inks MoU with Italian energy firm
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Blackstone closes latest energy transition fund at $8.7bn, backs several data center focused energy firms
Closed 50 percent higher than the previous fund