The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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News - Government & Military
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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Two days of anti-data center protest planned across Europe
Stop Dirty Data Centres 'days of action' follow anti-data center midterms in the US
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Almost 600,000 Nvidia H200s stranded in Hong Kong as Chinese gov’t stalls on import approvals – report
Some companies have secured limited amount of chips as large-volume shipments remain stalled
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OpenAI promises to drop NDAs and increase community transparency, following anti-data center wave
Publishes Compute Campus Policy and National Community Compact
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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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Texas governor-elect Gina Hinojosa promises continued data center moratorium, further legislation
Outlines 'Texans First Data Center Priorities'
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AWS set to secure £1.05bn contract renewal from UK Home Office
BidSkim analysis finds £444.6m spent on AWS since 2020
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Local data center moratoria, limits, and restrictions voted in across the US
Most anti-data center measures pass, with Ohio leading the charge
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Nvidia tells data center partners to cut China exposure, limits RTX chip sales to mainland
As both the US and China look to decouple
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NBC exit poll: 56% say AI data centers were a crucial or major factor in Congressional vote decision
87 percent called it a factor overall, with heavy weighting towards Democrats
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OpenAI to rebrand its data centers as compute campuses as part of broader policy and PR push
As US midterms are dominated by anti-data center movement
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Portuguese gov't drafts new rules requiring data centers to be powered via renewable energy
The government is currently finalizing legislation
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Megaspeed exec with close ties to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang suspected of spying for China
Nvidia and the Chinese Embassy reject claims of targeted spying
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FCC to vote on whether prisons can jam contraband cellphone calls
A vote is set for next month
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Extreme Networks fined for channeling networking equipment to Russian missile contractor
Extreme trouble for networking firm after inadvertent sanctions breach
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Malaysian gov’t approves renewable energy requirement for new data centers
Data centers will have to source a minimum of 30 percent of their power from renewable energy
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FCC approves Amazon Leo's $11.5bn acquisition of Globalstar
The move is set to boost Amazon's D2D vision
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Spain revises data center renewable mandate
Facilities with a capacity of 10MW or more are now subject to the rules
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Bull awarded €40m to deliver HLRE-5 supercomputer to the German Climate Computing Center
System will be powered by Nvidia GB200 Superchips and Vera CPUs
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Reserve Bank of India launches data center in Bhubaneswar, Odisha
700-rack facility to support primary data center in Navi Mumbai
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UK gov't looks to introduce tougher prison sentences and unlimited fines to subsea cable saboteurs
Current legislation on subsea cable damage dates back to 1885
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Daedalus supercomputer inaugurated in Greece
85 petaflops system features Nvidia H200s, housed in a repurposed building
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Kao Data to host CommonAI's AI Scaling Inference Lab at Harlow data center
Lab to host Nvidia and AMD hardware
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Nokia, ICEYE pair with Ukraine's Ministry of Defence on satellite cooperation
Comes amid strained tensions between Ukraine and SpaceX's Starlink
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Oregon city declares state of emergency over lost data center revenue amid state-wide ban
City of Umatilla was relying on tax revenues due to come in from Sabey and Amazon
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Russian finance ministry data center struck by Ukrainian forces
Another data center damaged in conflict
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Vertical Semiconductor awarded $73m in CHIPS Act funding to support vGaN transistor development
The agreement will see the Department of Commerce take a minority stake in the company
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Swiss federal gov't publishes $8.5bn tender for cloud services
The Swiss Government Cloud is designed to increase Switzerland’s digital sovereignty
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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