Western Digital, Microsoft launch initiative to recycle critical minerals from disused data center equipment
Pilot project utilizes an acid-free dissolution recycling technology
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The latest news from the data center, telco, and cloud sector
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Aalo Atomics unveils modular nuclear plant design, "purpose built" for data center sector
US DOE to distribute uranium fuel to advanced nuclear firms
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NREL launches geothermal storage project to address data center cooling energy consumption levels
Project to use off-peak power to create cold energy reserves
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Switch to procure up to 12GW of nuclear power from Oklo reactors by 2044
Oklo will provide the data center power through a series of long-term Power Purchase Agreements
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US DOE issues $15 billion loan to Californian utility PG&E to support grid modernization plan
The loan is a record high for a US utility
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US DOE invites bids to build $1.2bn of new power transmission
Transmission Facilitation Program aims to double US grid capacity
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Los Alamos, NNSA install cooling system to prep for exascale supercomputers
Los Alamos is getting ready for when exascale becomes available
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US nuclear weapons agency plans private cloud move
But nuke simulations will still require supercomputers
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US leads Top500 most powerful supercomputer list, but China continues to grow
Plus, Arm gets on the list for the first time ever
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US quantum initiatives move forward with DOE, NSF funding and House bill
And Google, IBM and Intel are among those visiting the White House as the government reveals its quantum computing strategy
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HPE and Sandia to build world’s largest Arm supercomputer
145,000-core Astra will be used to model nuclear decay
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US plans to spend up to $1.8bn on two new exascale supercomputers
RFP goes out for CORAL systems, coming in 2021-2023
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Trump budget proposal requests $636m for US exascale computing
But the whole budget has to go through Congress, and will likely see a lot of changes
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US Department of Energy chooses seven projects for HPC manufacturing program
Public-private partnerships will see manufacturing firms tap into the government’s vast infrastructure
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Intel, DOE and academia to collaborate on big data research
Using the NERSC’s Cray XC40 supercomputer, “Cori”
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US DoE awards $258m in HPC contracts
AMD, Cray, HPE, IBM, Intel and Nvidia get new business from the troubled agency as the exascale race continues
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Idaho National Laboratory to get $90m HPC, cyber security expansion
Delayed by political wrangling, the upgrade finally gets a go-ahead
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American, Japanese and Swiss HPC facilities form ADAC institute
Will work together to get better
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CenturyLink joins US Government's Better Buildings Challenge
Aims to cut non-IT energy consumption by a quarter
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US Nuclear Security Administration acquires OCP supercomputer
Open Compute hardware will be used to run nuclear explosion simulations