Google plans to invest $15 billion to set up a major AI and cloud data center in Visakhapatnam, in what will be the company’s largest project in India so far. The site will form the backbone of Google’s expanding digital infrastructure across South Asia. The project, expected to roll out over the next five years, … Continue reading “Google to Build $15B AI Data Center in India’s Visakhapatnam – iShook Finance”
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Logistics provider DHL Supply Chain and connected automotive services provider Cox Automotive are working together to deliver in-life EV battery services for UK manufacturers and fleets. The new cooperation provides battery repair, remanufacturing logistics and storage services at DHL’s EV Centre of Excellence in Rugby. Designed to comply with the latest government regulations and meet … Continue reading “DHL and Cox Automotive announce large-scale EV battery repair, remanufacturing logistics and storage center in the UK”
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This is the second article in our four-part series on data centers and electricity demand. Read part 1. There’s no question that data centers are about to cause U.S. electricity demand to spike. What remains unclear is by how much. Right now, there are few credible answers. Just a lot of uncertainty — and “a lot of … Continue reading “Utilities are flying blind on data center demand. That’s a big problem.”
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Utility Hoosier Energy announced plans to close the Merom coal plant in Indiana in 2023 but then sold it to a company called Hallador Energy that is keeping the plant open and reportedly making a deal with a data center developer. Experts note that ensuring data centers are actually using renewable energy around the clock is extremely difficult … Continue reading “Indiana advocates press for data center pause amid rising energy demand”
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Industrial chemicals firm Chemours, the maker of such well-known products as Freon and Teflon, is also a player in battery technology. Now the company has opened a new laboratory facility, the Chemours Battery Innovation Center (CBIC) at its Discovery Hub in Newark, Delaware. The CBIC will support the testing and scaling of Chemours’s next-generation EV … Continue reading “Chemical firm Chemours opens Battery Innovation Center to develop EV battery tech”
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Photo: First Solar The US’s largest solar panel maker, First Solar (Nasdaq: FSLR), says it’s building the largest thin film R&D center in the Western Hemisphere. First Solar will site its new R&D center, the Jim Nolan Center for Solar Innovation, in Lake Township, Ohio. The 1.3 million-square-foot facility will include a pilot manufacturing line … Continue reading “First Solar to build the Western Hemisphere’s largest solar R&D center”