Data Center News

Submer to Deploy Liquid Cooled Data Centers in India

India / Bhārata

Liquid cooling and data center firm Submer Technologies and the Government of Madhya Pradesh in India this week signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly develop up to 1GW of liquid-cooled AI data centers in Madhya Pradesh.Sanjay Dubey, additional chief secretary of the Department ...

Google Signs Long Duration Energy Storage Partnership

Google

Google has signed its first partnership with a long-duration energy storage (LDES) company, Energy Dome to support multiple commercial deployments worldwide to help scale the company’s CO2 battery technology.The company has developed a 20MW/200MWh battery, which it claims has a lifetime of mor...

Microsoft Signs 4.9 Million-tonne Carbon Removal Deal

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has signed a 12-year carbon offtake agreement with Vaulted Deep that will see the removal of up to 4.9 million tonnes of carbon dioxide and enable Vaulted to expand its operations to new sites across the US."As carbon removal moves beyond pilots and prototypes, there is growing deman...

Oklo and Vertiv Partner on Nuclear Data Center Power

United States

Small nuclear reactor developer Oklo and data center power and cooling firm Vertiv this week announced a collaboration agreement focused on the co-development of power and thermal management solutions tailored specifically for hyperscale and colocation data centers that will be deploying Oklo’...

SunRocket Capital Funds $15m Solar and Storage Project in Illinois

Illinois

US-based private lender SunRocket Capital has closed a $15 million financing package for a solar with battery storage project designed to provide power to the data center sector in Illinois.“SunRocket Capital is proud to facilitate the growth of renewable energy infrastructure that powers the ...

Frontier Consortium Buys $1.75 Million of Carbon Credits

Google

Frontier, a carbon credit purchasing consortium that counts Google and Meta as founding members, this week announced it has facilitated $1.75 million of carbon removal purchases from Karbonetiq (United States), Limenet (Italy), and pHathom (Canada) on behalf of buyers Stripe, Shopify, and Goog...

Google Signs 3GW US Hydro Energy Deal with Brookfield

Google

Brookfield Asset Management and Brookfield Renewable this week announced a first-of-its-kind Hydro Framework Agreement (HFA) with Google to deliver up to 3,000MW of carbon-free hydroelectric capacity across the United States.Under the agreement, hydroelectric assets will be relicensed, overhau...

Eurowind, Edora to Develop Data Center in Denmark

Europe

Danish renewable energy developer Eurowind Energy has partnered with Danish IT services provider Edora to develop a data center within a renewable energy park in Jutland, Denmark. The pilot will see the partners build a data center within the confines of the Eurowind Energy Park consisting of ...

Microsoft Buys 2.95m Tons of Carbon Removal Credits in Denmark

Microsoft has signed a carbon removal agreement with Gaia, a joint venture between Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and Vestforbrænding, for 2.95 million tons of carbon removal credits.The credits will be generated from Gaia’s Energy from Waste (EfW) carbon capture storage (CCS) retrof...

Ofgem Approves £24bn in Transmission Upgrades

United Kingdom

UK energy regulator Ofgem has provisionally approved a £24 billion ($32.7bn) investment package into the country’s gas and electricity transmission system.The funding will back the construction of 80 electricity transmission projects aimed at connecting more than 120GW of clean energy capacity...

Microsoft to Deploy Energy Efficiency Platform across Data Centers

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has partnered with Univers, a Singapore-based software development firm, to explore energy enhancement measures across its data centers. This MoU will support the use of Microsoft AI Cloud capabilities to strengthen Univers' sustainability solutions.The platform enables organizations...

Hut 8 Awarded Five-Year Capacity Contract for 310MW of Natural Gas Power in Ontario

Hut 8 Corp

Cryptomining and HPC firm Hut 8 has been awarded a five-year capacity contract with the Ontario Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) for 310MW of natural gas generation assets. The portfolio is owned and operated by Far North Power Corp, a partnership between Hut 8 and Macquarie Equi...

Microsoft to Buy 1.1m Tons of Carbon Removal Credits in Norway

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has agreed to purchase 1.1 million tons of carbon removal credits from Hafslund Celsio, an energy from waste (EfW) and carbon capture and storage (CCS) firm which is set to be delivered over a ten-year period, will be generated by a CCS project under development at the site of Norway...

US Energy Sec Plans 11GW Data Center Campus in Texas

Texas

The Texas Tech University System (TTU System) announced a collaboration with recently founded energy and technology company Fermi America to develop a large AI and energy campus near Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle. The Advanced Energy and Intelligence Campus will reportedly include “18 millio...

Can the Cloud Go Green? Exploring the Path to Carbon-Neutral Data Centers

United States

People consider the cloud to be intangible. However, there are dozens of servers powering that invisible force in thousands of data centers stationed around the world. These facilities, many of which operate continuously without interruption, consume vast amounts of energy and are increasingly...

Meta Purchases 791MW of Renewable Power in the US

United States

Meta has signed four renewable energy agreements across four projects in Ohio (x2), Arizona, and Texas, for a combined capacity of 791MW from Invenergy to power its US data center portfolio.The four contracted projects include the 300MW Yellow Wood Solar Energy Center in Clinton County, Ohio, ...

Microsoft Signs Carbon Removal Deal in the US

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has signed yet another carbon removal deal, this time buying carbon removal credits from forestry projects in the US with Anew Climate and sister company Aurora Sustainable Lands. Both companies announced a 10-year agreement to deliver 4.8 million nature-based carbon removal credits ...

Gridmatic Inks 10MW PPA in Texas

Texas

US-based power marketer Gridmatic has signed a 10MW Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Sol Systems in Texas, with a portion of the power supplied to data center developer EdgeConneX under a 24/7 carbon-free energy agreement (24/7 CFE). The  PPA has a capacity of 14MW and reached commercial op...

Time Energy Launches Malaysia’s First Community Solar Project

Malaysia

Time Energy, the renewable division of Malaysian telco Time dotCom, has launched the country’s first community solar project for data centers. The company signed an agreement with AIMS Group, a colocation and Edge data center provider, which will be the first anchor customer, via the Community...

APR Energy Receives Approval for Natural Gas Powered Facility in Texas

Texas

APR Energy has obtained approval from state regulators to move forward with the development of an 800-acre data center in Pampa, Texas. The Pampa Chamber of Commerce and the Pampa Economic Development Corporation approved the project last Tuesday (July 10). The data center is expected to have ...