Zachary Skidmore

3 days ago | datacenterdynamics.com | Zachary Skidmore

New data center builds have contributed to a 23.4 percent increase in Microsoft's carbon emissions since 2020, according to the company's 2025 Environmental Sustainability Report. The report revealed that while the company made notable strides in renewable and carbon removal investments, emissions are on the rise, primarily due to new data center builds to accommodate the company's investments in AI systems.

3 days ago | datacenterdynamics.com | Zachary Skidmore

The chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Mark Christie, is set to be replaced when his term expires at the end of the month. President Donald Trump has nominated Laura Swett, who currently serves as energy litigation counsel at the law firm Vinson & Elkins, as Christie’s replacement. Christie was nominated by Trump in 2020 and had previously spent 17 years on the Virginia State Corporation Commission.

4 days ago | datacenterdynamics.com | Zachary Skidmore

Meta has signed a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Constellation Energy for more than 1.1GW of power from a nuclear power plant in Clinton, Illinois. The contract, which will commence in June 2027, will see Meta offtake the entire output of the Constellation-owned 1.121GW Clinton Clean Energy Center. The agreement will support the relicensing and operations of the facility for two decades, following the expiration of the state-funded zero-emission credit program.

4 days ago | datacenterdynamics.com | Zachary Skidmore

Australia’s largest telco, Telstra, has partnered with German hydrogen developer H2 Core AG to deploy a self-sufficient hydrogen solution at a telco tower network in the mining town MacDonald Hill, around 1,250 kilometers (776.7 miles) west of Sydney. The government-funded pilot project will see the deployment of the H2 PowerCore, which combines hydrogen technology with electrostatic battery storage systems and other components such as fuel cells.

4 days ago | datacenterdynamics.com | Zachary Skidmore

TAE Technologies, a nuclear fusion firm, has raised more than $150 million in its latest funding round, with backing from Google. Google has backed the company since 2015, with the partners collaborating on advancing fusion technology through the use of machine learning, something we profiled back in 2019. During this process, Google engineers co-developed advanced plasma reconstruction algorithms, which TAE has said have led to significantly improved performance.