Items tagged with “Data Centers”.
Microsoft unveils plans for a 1.2 million-square-foot Fairwater AI data center in Wisconsin, housing hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GB200 GPUs. The project promises unprecedented AI training power with a closed-loop cooling system and a cost of $3.3 billion.
Meta’s 2025 Sustainability Report outlines decarbonization targets, water restoration in stressed regions, biodiversity efforts, supplier engagements, and data-center innovations, including mass timber pilots and nuclear energy pilots.
Microsoft Research outlines MOSAIC, a microLED-based optical interconnect concept designed to overcome datacenter memory and network limits restricting AI performance, with potential to transform AI cluster designs.
Overview of how NVIDIA's Blackwell hardware, open source models, and a rich software stack accelerate AI—from data prep to deployment—through broad model/tool availability and end-to-end infrastructure.
Meta signs a $100 million, 100 MW solar farm deal with Silicon Ranch in South Carolina to power a planned AI data center, with most equipment made in the U.S. Operations expected in 2027.
NVIDIA’s co-packaged optics (CPO) approach delivers dramatic power efficiency for large-scale AI data centers, with Quantum-X Photonics and Spectrum-X Photonics enabling high-bandwidth, low-latency networking.
OpenAI announces Stargate Norway, its first AI data center initiative in Europe under the OpenAI for Countries program. Stargate underpins OpenAI’s infrastructure platform and the long-term vision to deliver AI benefits to everyone.
Meta developers unveil open-source AI for sustainable concrete design, optimizing strength, curing speed, and carbon footprint with Bayesian optimization and collaboration with Amrize and U of I.
Microsoft’s 2025 sustainability report shows emissions rose 23.4% since 2020 due to rapid data center expansion, with Scope 3 driving the majority of the footprint. The 2030 pledge requires cutting emissions by more than half and scaling carbon removal.
Gridcare uses grid mapping and generative AI to uncover more than 100 GW of latent data-center capacity, then matches developers with utilities. The seed round reached $13.5M, led by Xora, with multiple investors.
As data centers expand to meet AI-driven demand, solar PPAs over 100 MW have surged globally in 2025. Major deals across Meta, Microsoft, Cisco, Amazon, and others illustrate solar’s near-term advantage in cost, deployment speed, and scalability.
A new study suggests modest curtailment by data centers could unlock 76 GW of US power capacity, highlighting data centers as flexible demand-response participants amid AI-driven growth.
Meta expands solar power deals as it accelerates data-center growth for its AI agenda, adding 595 MW in Texas and 200 MW from Engie while targeting 12+ GW of renewables under contract.