The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
A sustainable future for data centers
News - North America
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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Microsoft files for data center campus in Floyd County, Georgia
Will feature three data center buildings
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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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AT&T CEO John Stankey not getting twisted over SpaceX’s spectrum salvo
'I wouldn't over rotate on what I would call one carrier of low-band spectrum,' Stankey said on AT&T's latest earnings call
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Canada's Uniserve to launch 1MW data center in Vancouver
Company developing facility next door to existing data center
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Former OpenAI head of data centers joins Nvidia to help lead DSX Platform team
Chris Malone announced new role two months after OpenAI departure was reported
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T-Mobile claims world first AI-RAN call with Nokia and Nvidia
The call was completed from a commercial cell site in Bellevue, Washington
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US considering 35 data center-related developments on public land, land records say
17 relate to campuses, 13 to broader AI infrastructure
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Soluna and Applied Digital to build 50MW data center in Texas
Companies to build on Soluna’s Dorothy 3 site, lease capacity to Applied spin-out ChronoScale
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OpenAI hires new energy regulatory lead
Will Friedman joins from AWS
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Memphis councilors reject 18-month data center moratorium
Instead, they ban new projects for 135 days
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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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Amazon withdraws application for data center campus at GWU site in Ashburn, Virginia
Cloud giant backs off proposals after pushback from Loudoun County officials
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AT&T copper retirement pushes on as carrier reveals just 1% still using legacy technology
As the carrier continues to push its fiber rollout
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Duos secures cloud provider as customer for 20MW of data center capacity
Contract worth $700 million, capacity due live next year
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Crusoe plans Spark Liquid modular data center to support latest Nvidia GPUs
3.5MW deployments expected to serve Crusoe Cloud in 20-50MW clusters
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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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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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Nvidia launches DSX POD, claims the Vera-Rubin reference architecture will make AI data centers more water and energy efficient
Details released at GTC Berlin event, taking place this week
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San Francisco shopping mall targeted for potential data center
Bidders competing for former Bloomingdale's site
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Boston's Towardex sets up direct interconnection to DE-CIX's New York Internet Exchange
HEX customers can now access DE-CIX’s multi-service interconnection platform
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xMems solid-state cooling chips for data centers and Edge devices go into production
Good vibrations can help chill hardware
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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
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Anthropic and Nscale in talks for second $45bn deal - report
Companies previously signed $45bn compute agreement in August 2026
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Google expands partnership with Entergy Arkansas, will fund renewable energy and grid upgrades for West Memphis data center
Inks 440MW PPA and backs two BESS projects
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Amazon and AEP to explore deployment of up to 960MW of X-energy SMRs in Indiana
Second major deal signed by Amazon and X-energy with a regional utility
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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