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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President Trump: Data center firms should offer local residents dividends to get communities on-side
President says to 'make deals and get data centers built'
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Authorities in Lithuania foil arson plot against Starlink satellite gateway station
Comes after recent attacks against Starlink infrastructure in Poland and Bulgaria
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Canada puts out Advanced Procurement Notice for data center in Ontario
Estimated to cost between CA$1.5bn and $1.85bn
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400MW data center eyed at old Navy cyber site in San Diego, California
Manchester Financial Group exploring potential of data center at NAVWAR HQ
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India's Odisha gov't approves $18.62m data center project
Will serve as a disaster recovery data center
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UK council launches heat network feasibility study for proposed data centers near Didcot Power Station in Oxfordshire
Will be undertaken by Nordic Energy, with results published in March of next year
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UK gov’t rejects AI Growth Zone bid to power data center with Drax biomass plant in Selby, North Yorkshire
Applicants claimed the 1.2GW data center would be the largest “carbon negative data center”
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US DoD seeks partner to build $4bn "mission critical facility" and data center in Alabama
Design Build Contractor will have to provide the facility by December 2031
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Two Turkish nationals arrested over Russian-linked arson attack against Starlink ground station in Poland
Starlink ground station site was attacked last month in Mazovia
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GlobalFoundries to build and operate two new chip fabs in NY as part of $21bn US-Japan deal
First facility is expected to be operational in 2029
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Oregon Governor Tina Kotek asks state environmental regulator to pause permits, introducing de facto data center moratorium
Follows ban on projects involving state land
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Supermicro contractor Ting-Wei “Willy” Sun pleads guilty to four counts associated with Nvidia chip smuggling charges
Charges include conspiracies to violate export controls, smuggle goods, defraud the US, and obstruct justice
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US DOE funds 12 projects under Genesis Mission; cloud providers sign up to support effort
AWS and Crusoe among those to offer compute capacity
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Iraqi gov't reveals plans for five data centers
New facilities to be located in Baghdad, Basra, and Mosul
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Wolfspeed receives $1.5bn conditional loan commitment from US gov’t to boost domestic SiC and GaN production
Financing will also help advance a number of DoD initiatives
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DARPA announces four companies advancing to final stage of its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative
Atom Computing, Diraq, IBM, and IonQ have all progressed to Stage C of the program
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IT systems in southern Italy back online after data center outage
The regional government ruled out a cyberattack
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Poland’s National Data Processing Center receives EU funding grant
The data center network has received PLN 1.56 billion ($401m) from the European Funds for Digital Development program
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Enetron Park announces zoning approval for 250MW data center in Pyhäjoki, Finland, despite local government denial
Announcement at odds with government decision
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European Space Agency taps OVHcloud and CGI for Earth observation system
Digital EO will provide Earth observation data to scientists, public bodies, businesses, and citizens
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Traysar and Armada team up for underground AI infrastructure
Terminus will bring critical infrastructure below the Earth's surface
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Russian drones enter into Moldovan airspace, collides with comms tower
After the collision the drone exploded
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Virginia bans data center NDAs as part of new digital infrastructure framework
Governor Spanberger introduces range of measures including AI task force
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Balearic Islands launches new data center for critical government systems
The facility is integrated with a regional government data center in Sant Pere
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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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Russian drones strike Ukrainian telcos and data center operators as part of targeted attacks
Kyivstar's HQ in Kyiv was struck in latest attack on capital
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Thailand set to finalize new data center regulations by mid-October - report
Expected to classify data centers with a capacity of more than 100MW hyperscale facilities
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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