DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
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The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Danish Parliament adopts "emergency plan" for electricity grid, puts data centers at the back of queue
Measures were first suggested during the summer
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Google signs 3.6GW deal with Constellation to secure power in PJM service area
Nuclear and natural gas deal covers major data center markets
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ABB launches range of DC power products
Vendors looking to be ready for 1MW racks and 800vDC architectures
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TeraWulf's Kentucky campus to reach 1GW in 2029
Company adding second 500MW phase a year sooner
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Green fuels plant in Nova Scotia, Canada, could host data centers
EverWind Fuels explores potential co-located data center development
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Jera, Dell Technologies, and Rhaelm team up for behind-the-meter AI infrastructure in Japan
First project planned for power plant at Chiba
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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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Concern over 'monster' data center planned for Cheshire, UK
Residents up in arms that fields near motorway could house data center
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Plans filed for 1GW data center campus at former nuclear plant in Scotland
CX Tech says site will feature direct-wire connections to renewable projects
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9.4GW SMR-powered data center campus proposed in Utah
Valar Atomics aims to get first reactor live in 2028
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Finland to abandon first-come, first-served grid connections, dropping data centers down the queue
Draft amendment looks at reallocating priority based on four groupings
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Infineon and Eaton partner on silicon-carbide-based solid-state transformers to support 800VDC power architectures
Infineon SiC power devices will be deployed in Eaton’s MVSST 2.0 platform
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Eaton to acquire COL Group
Industrial firm buys Italian switchgear maker for €810m
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Submer launches Corenix to offer modular data center infrastructure
New unit to provide custom modules for customers
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Schneider Electric and Equinix trial software-defined switchgear for data centers
Could cut the amount of cabling in data halls, and speed up deployment times
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Vertiv expands data center kit manufacturing capacity in Slovakia
Will add 22,000 sqm to power and cooling factory
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DOE unveils $1.9bn in funding for 31 grid upgrade projects to speed data center connections
Expected to unlock 23GW of additional capacity on the grid
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Woodway to build 22-mile gas pipeline for undisclosed data center in US
Will serve the data center behind the meter
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California governor signs seven-bill package targeting data center energy and water use
Seeks to shield ratepayers from bearing the cost associated with data center buildout
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Abbott halts new Texas data center permits pending ERCOT audit
ERCOT claims the audit will be completed by December
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New Era signs 20-year gas PPA with Vistra subsidiary to power 250MW data center in Ector County, Texas
Powered via an adjacent natural gas plant in Odessa, Texas
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Google inks deal to support nuclear uprates at Georgia Power's Vogtle and Hatch plants
Will add 96MW of additional capacity across the two plants
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Kodiak Gas Services to supply 76MW of behind-the-meter gas power to West Texas data center
Will deploy 40 natural gas-fueled reciprocating generation units
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Generac signs $8bn back up generator deal with Amazon
Initial deliveries over next two years will total $2.4bn
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Gazprom partners with Crypto Energy to deploy modular data center at gas field in Siberia - report
The pilot project will utilize gas from a depleted field in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug region
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Google, Nvidia, and Emerald AI found the AI Energy Management Alliance to support demand response capabilities within the data center sector
Joined by a range of launch partners, including Anthropic and RWE
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TotalEnergies partners with Mistral to develop AI models for oil and gas exploitation
Three-year contract worth an estimated €100 million