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The World's Largest Planned Data Center Is Running Into Trouble
Update, April 19, 2026: On April 17, after this story was finalized, Fermi announced that co-founder and CEO Toby Neugebauer was departing the company effective immediately.
Last October, Fermi America raised $746 million in an IPO...
Google Is Considering Natural Gas Without Carbon Capture in Its AI Data Center Strategy
Few companies in the world are hungrier for electricity than Google. In 2024, Google’s data centers used 30.8 million megawatt-hours of electricity—more than entire countries, and roughly double what they consumed just four years earlier. I...
Microsoft's Latest Data Center Project Could Boost It's Emissions by 40%
A rendering of the Monarch Compute Campus
Microsoft just announced that it will deploy 1.35 GW of Nvidia’s latest chips at an off-grid data center in West Virginia that will run on 100% natural gas. The massive deployment could boost the c...
Google Is Proving You Don't Need On-Site Gas to Build Large Data Centers Quickly
This post was originally published on the Cleanview newsletter, which I also write. I’m sharing it here with Distilled readers given that I think many of you will be interested in the topic.
Amazon and Meta have said they are buildi...
Bypassing the Grid: How Data Centers Are Building Their Own Power Plants
This post was originally published on the Cleanview newsletter, which I also write. I’m sharing it here with Distilled readers given that I think many of you will be interested in the topic.
Many data centers claim to use clean ene...
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