The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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SpaceXAI plans data center in Arizona, Musk's firm claims it will have 6GW capacity
Construction work could start in March 2027
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Two days of anti-data center protests planned across Europe
Stop Dirty Data Centres 'days of action' follow anti-data center midterms in the US
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ING Bank looks to sell $500m in data center loans at once, including at Stargate site
Further spooking investors in a wobbly market
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More than 100 protesters break into Microsoft data center construction site in Amsterdam
Protesting water use, AI, and ties to Israel
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Plans for Poland’s National Data Processing Center fleshed out by NASK
The research and development institute said that the facility’s first phase will now require up to 15MW of power
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Deutsche Telekom CEO welcomes SpaceX terrestrial challenge, warns it will cost Musk at least $200bn
Tim Höttges says "welcome to the party"
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DTE Energy ups five-year utility investment plan to $44bn, cites data center demand
An almost $10bn increase
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Ongoing labor dispute sees Micron pause construction at its $4.5bn memory fab in Taoyuan, Taiwan – report
Micron is latest memory chip maker to face pushback from employees over profit sharing bonuses
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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 number of chips as large-volume shipments remain stalled
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NTT Data signs 900MW fuel cell supply deal with Bloom Energy
First delivery's expected next year
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Iran-linked ships circle subsea cables in the Middle East - report
As the country ramps up threats against digital infrastructure
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Google announces $17bn data center campus in Cheyenne, Wyoming
Set to be powered via fuel cells and gas generation, coupled with CCS
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Playmobil owner to enter data center market with new facility in Dietenhofen, Germany
The proposed facility will have power requirements of up to 100MW
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Secure I.T. Environments to deliver modular data centers to hospitals in Wales
Bagnor and Wrexham Maelor hospitals
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Microsoft design change delays Iren's data center delivery in Texas
$4bn ARR now targeting online date in January
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Nokia: AI will equal half of all network traffic by 2035
Report predicts capacity impact of agents, humanoids, and more
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Chemours releases two fluids for two-phase liquid cooling
Will target direct-to-chip and immersion markets
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Google to serve as credit backstop for TeraWulf data center in Kentucky
Data center is contracted to Anthropic under $19bn deal
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McKay Brothers taps Relativity Networks for hollow core fiber to support New Jersey's financial services market
Will initially focus on New Jersey, with plans to expand to other markets
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SBA Communications sheds Chile, Ecuador towers during Q3
As company also enters agreement to sell towers in Peru
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Bank of England queries speculative data center loans tied to projects without tenants
Tries to understand the scale of risk in the sector
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Quint Computing raises €9.1 million for development of fault tolerant quantum computing architecture
German startup was also awarded a €2.2 million Pathfinder grant by the European Innovation Council
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Microsoft declined option for expanded compute contract in Texas with Nscale
Company was offered capacity at Nscale-owned site adjacent to its up-and-running Ionic Digital data center
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Two dead and five injured following fire at Panasonic chip packaging facility in Taiwan
Fire broke out at 2:00 am local time on November 4
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21 injured in Mackenzie, B.C., bus crash involving Iren contractor
Several were seriously injured as air ambulances called
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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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Caterpillar seeking to expand production of large reciprocating engines and turbines to meet huge data center demand
Reported a huge increase in sales within its power and energy division
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More than half of US hyperscale data center projects face 'regulatory friction' after 2026 midterm elections - report
National moratorium remains a low-probability scenario, analyst report says