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News - Critical Power (EN)
The latest news from the data center, telco, and cloud sector
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Oregon House passes bill to ensure data centers cover fair share of energy infrastructure costs
Will also require new data centers to purchase electricity from utilities for at least ten years.
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Corscale and Affinius partner with e2Companies to deploy off grid power solution across US data center portfolio
Agreement will run for an initial 24-month period
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FERC commisioner Willie Phillips to step down
Former chair asked to leave position by White House
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CoreWeave leases another 260MW capacity from Galaxy in Texas
Company exercises option to take more capacity with Galaxy
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Sam Altman to step down as chairman of SMR firm Oklo
Could pave the way for a partnership between Oklo and OpenAI
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Soluna plans 145MW wind-powered data center campus in Texas
Another colocated project from the AI and crypto firm
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Sharon AI and New Era Helium to expand Texas site for natural gas powered AI data center
Expanded from 200 acres to 235 acres
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Fujitsu teams up with Supermicro, Nidec to launch data center energy efficiency initiative
Will be initially tested at Fujitsu’s Tatebayashi Data Center
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DCD Podcast - Are utilities overstating data center demand growth?
Utilities in Southeast US plan to build 20GW of new gas generation by 2040
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Bitdeer acquires 40MW of Bitcoin mining containers from Saiheat
As Saiheat looks to offer SMRs to crypto firms
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New nuclear capacity has potential to meet 10 percent of data center demand in US over next decade - report
Estimate based on an expansion of between 35 to 62GW during period
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Ofgem approves UK interconnection reforms, potentially clearing more than 750GW from its connection queue
Will remove "zombie" projects from interconnection queue
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Thousands more leave US Department of Energy, despite Trump declaring "national energy emergency"
As many as 2,600 depart, more at risk
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Soluna acquires land in Texas for 166MW crypto/AI campus
First 83MW could be online by 2026
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ERCOT: Electricity demand in Texas set to soar to 218GW by 2031 fueled by data center growth
Data center power demand to grow to 78GW
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Democrat senators propose bill to mitigate energy consumption of crypto and AI facilities
Dubbed as the “Clean Cloud Act of 2025”
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Arizona’s public utilities commission launches formal review into impacts of data center growth
Will consider whether data centers are paying fair share of infrastructure costs
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FERC upholds rejection of proposed interconnection agreement between AWS data center and Pennsylvania nuclear plant
Commissioners voted along the same lines as the previous vote
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Vantage loses appeal to overturn data center planning permission denial in Dublin
Planning regulator denied Vantage over grid connection
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Vertiv launches new OCP-compliant power shelf, low-GWP cooling unit
Company looks to meet F-gas regulation requirements
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Aalo Atomics unveils modular nuclear plant design, "purpose built" for data center sector
US DOE to distribute uranium fuel to advanced nuclear firms
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Equinor consolidates power generation assets into new business unit citing growing demand from AI and data centers
Will combine renewable business with other power generation assets
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Cango pivots fully to Bitcoin mining after selling car loan business
From cars to coins
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IEA: Data center energy consumption set to double by 2030 to 945TWh
US and China will account for 80 percent of the projected growth
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MARA fully energizes gas flared cryptomine data center project
Located across well heads in Texas and North Dakota
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xAI doubles number of onsite gas turbines at Memphis data center in violation of permit limits
Aerial photos revealed 35 onsite methane gas turbines
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Google and PJM partner to deploy AI for faster grid connection
Will initially automate processes currently done by grid planners