Vertiv has entered into an agreement to acquire King Environmental Services Ltd. (KES), a European provider of liquid-system management, commissioning and load-testing services for high-density, liquid-cooled data centers. Vertiv expects the transaction to strengthen its thermal-management service capabilities across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Berkshire Hathaway CEO Greg Abel said power demand from AI data centers represents a significant opportunity for Berkshire Hathaway and Berkshire Hathaway Energy (BHE), while identifying energy scarcity as a constraint on AI expansion. He said BHE would not sell power to hyperscalers if doing so raised rates for other customers.
The US Department of Energy has announced nearly $2 billion for 31 grid projects across 26 states, aimed at increasing transmission capacity and operational flexibility. The portfolio is expected to deliver more than 23 GW of additional electricity capacity through grid monitoring and power-flow management technologies.
Visual Capitalist has compared the annual energy equivalents of three planned or in-development US data center campuses with electricity consumption in major US cities. Meta’s planned Hyperion campus in Richland Parish, Louisiana, is the largest in the comparison, at 43.8 TWh annually at full build-out.
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian has described three routes to monetize the company’s TPU infrastructure beyond internal use: cloud rental, direct equipment sales for customer on-premises data centers, and TPU capacity rental through NeoCloud partnerships. Google has also included third-party TPU sales in Google Cloud revenue.
Alibaba has announced a target to expand Alibaba Cloud’s global data center footprint beyond 20 GW by 2032, alongside further investment in AI infrastructure. The company also unveiled the Zhenwu V900 AI chip in Hangzhou.
BDx Data Centers has begun construction of CGK4, also known as AI Campus 2, in Jatiluhur, West Java. The six-building campus is planned for 640MW of total capacity, with work under way on its first building.
Alphabet and Georgia Power have agreed to fund capacity-uprate work at the Vogtle and Hatch nuclear plants in Georgia. The programme is expected to add about 96 MW of generation capacity, with Google covering the upgrade costs through a new tariff mechanism.
Chinese regions are using discounted electricity, subsidies, tax and lease concessions, and compute vouchers to attract data-center and AI workloads under the East Data, West Computing strategy. At the same time, authorities are restricting new construction in regions where existing data-center utilisation is below 50%.
A single source reports that Texas has effectively paused new grid connections, construction permits and environmental certificates for new facilities pending an ERCOT audit. In California, the same source describes new developer obligations covering grid upgrades, clean energy, water-use disclosure and local water infrastructure.