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Grid
Portland General Electric credits GridCARE with locating spare grid capacity for data center connections, but Utility Dive says utilities still use AI for forecasting, not for running the grid.
Energy & Cooling Desk
Data centers
Amazon's AWS is taking NVIDIA GB300 racks before some data centers can energize them, Business Insider reported Oct. 20, with about $3B more a month projected.
Chips & Power Desk
Chips
DeepSeek released Ascend support for six repos, SemiAnalysis says, narrowing Huawei's software gap with NVIDIA, though the 950PR still trails on hardware and only TileLang is usable so far.
Chips & Power Desk
Data centers
Microsoft's Rome, Georgia data center, labelled ATL80, would draw 422 MW from Georgia Power, per an Oct 20 state filing. Three buildings, up to 1,659,000 sq ft, due in 2032.
Chips & Power Desk
Data centers
Amazon, Meta and Google each back about $1 billion for data center host communities, and Amazon, Microsoft and Google dropped NDAs for officials, but Meta is only reviewing its use, AP reported.
Chips & Power Desk
Data centers
Era4 says its planned Newport data center, The Mill, could reach 1 GW and hold the equivalent of 400,000 Nvidia VR200 GPUs; both are targets, and permission covers only modular units.
Chips & Power Desk
Data centers
Nebius is HUMAIN's first customer for a Saudi giga campus at Oxagon, but the framework is preliminary: no contract value or lease, with phased capacity from Q4 2027.
Chips & Power Desk
Data centers
Korean AI data-center operator Elice closed 32% below its 90,500 won offer price after a 201.1 billion won IPO, the latest sign that funding for neocloud capacity builds is tightening.
Chips & Power Desk
Data centers
Trump said on Oct 21 large new data centers must generate their own power and sell excess locally or to the grid, and urged dividends to communities; no order, scope or agency has been named.
Chips & Power Desk
Data centers
KT Cloud is starting construction of a 50MW hyperscale AI data center in Ansan, due in 2029, as the first step toward 1GW of AI capacity by 2031.
Chips & Power Desk
Data centers
Singapore-founded neocloud Aolani signed non-binding letters of intent for up to 500 MW in Malaysia, with first capacity targeted for the second half of 2027.
Chips & Power Desk
Data centers
Memphis councilors failed to pass a longer data center moratorium on October 20 and approved a substitute 135-day pause with new rules, a decision that bears on xAI's expansion in the city.
Chips & Power Desk
Data centers
Vantage has reserved more than 1 GW of manufacturing capacity for Heron Power's Heron Link, which converts medium-voltage grid power straight to 800 VDC for AI data center racks.
Chips & Power Desk
Data centers
Amazon withdrew its application for four data centers on the 122-acre campus it bought for $427 million, donating 25 acres to Loudoun County and paying $5 million into its housing fund.
Chips & Power Desk
Data centers
Amazon will spend more than €16 billion in Germany in 2027, about €4.8 billion of it expanding the AWS Frankfurt Region for cloud and AI, but gave no capacity or site figures.
Chips & Power Desk
Data centers
Israel's Electricity Authority will cap new data centers at 200 MW and require NIS 2 million per MW in guarantees after Noga received 27,000 MW of requests.
Chips & Power Desk
Data centers
Rune Energy plans 100 MW of compute within 12 months using 100 kW RELIC GPU modules wired to the DC side of solar farms to soak up power the grid can't take.
Chips & Power Desk
Data centers
More than 300 local US bans on new data centers are holding up only three projects, a SemiAnalysis review finds. The industry's 2027 growth looks on track. A permit freeze in Texas is the big unknown.
Chips & Power Desk