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Google is about to power a data center on fossil fuels with almost no emissions. While most of the industry debates renewables vs. reliability, Google is taking a different path, a 400MW gas-powered plant paired with industrial-scale carbon capture, injecting 90% of CO₂ into the Mount Simon saline aquifer. with 27–109 gigatons of viable storage and proven injection wells. As AI workloads surge, U.S. electricity demand from data centers may double or triple, reaching ~12% of national power consumption. This move sets a precedent: tech giants can combine environmental responsibility with aggressive infrastructure growth, while regulators and utilities must innovate to integrate CCS and manage grid impacts. At Futura, we’re already helping operators, developers, and utilities build the leadership, technical teams, and workforce needed for this next era of AI-driven energy infrastructure. Talent is the limiting reagent and we solve that at scale.

Microsoft’s new Fairwater AI Superfactory isn’t a data center it’s the first facility engineered at the physical limits of compute: speed-of-light latency, two-story GPU architecture, 140kW racks, closed-loop liquid cooling, and flat-network clusters with hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GB200/GB300s. This isn’t hyperscale. It’s industrial AI manufacturing. Key numbers: ▪️ $5.2T global AI infra capex by 2030 ▪️ $2T expected in the U.S. ▪️ 120,000 new fiber miles deployed for Microsoft’s AI WAN ▪️ 140kW racks / 1.36MW rows ▪️ Atlanta chosen for 99.99% grid availability at 99.9% cost Stakeholders aligning: ▪️ Microsoft: Building a fungible, continent-wide compute pool ▪️ NVIDIA: Blackwell backbone with FP4 efficiency + 1.8TB rack-level bandwidth ▪️ OpenAI: Pushing federal frameworks to derisk AI manufacturing ▪️ Utilities/Regulators: Managing grid stability as compute becomes a power-sector variable We’re entering a new era: AI manufacturing capacity becomes America’s industrial base. Power, water reuse, fiber redundancy, and non-discriminatory access will determine who wins the next economic cycle. If federal financing enters the stack, taxpayers will demand open, fair, non-gatekept infrastructure not a repeat of the railroad monopolies. At Futura Energy Group Energy our workforce solutions are helping owners, developers, and utilities stand up the talent engines behind this shift power systems, liquid-cooling ops, grid integration, commissioning, and mission-critical leadership at the velocity this market now requires.

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NTT is accelerating U.S. hyperscale expansion NTT Global Data Centers has signed 130MW of data center leases across Chicago, Dallas, Phoenix, and Northern Virginia with leading hyperscale cloud providers. In the last 12 months, NTT has: ▪️ Opened 10 new facilities globally, adding 370MW of IT capacity. ▪️ Acquired land for 1GW of future U.S. development in Oregon and Arizona. ▪️ Committed $10 billion through 2027 for data center infrastructure investments. Doug Adams, CEO of NTT Global Data Centers, underscores the strategy: “Clients turn to us for advanced infrastructure capable of supporting compute-intensive AI workloads with speed, security, and sustainability. By combining our expertise in cooling innovation and hyperscale design, we’re helping the world’s leading technology companies meet the growing demands of AI and advance their long-term growth strategies.” This expansion touches four key U.S. markets: ▪️ Chicago: Central hub for hyperscale interconnectivity. ▪️ Dallas: Powering the Sunbelt AI corridor. ▪️ Phoenix: Expanding liquid-cooled, energy-efficient infrastructure. ▪️ Northern Virginia: Leveraging one of the lowest vacancy hyperscale markets in the U.S. Futura Energy Group provide specialized operational workforce solutions, ensuring campuses scale efficiently and reliably. Reach out to learn more!

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US Data Center power demand to hit 106GW by 2035.... A new report from BloombergNEF says Data-center power demand will hit 106 gigawatts by 2035, a 36% jump from the previous outlook, published just seven months ago.  The jump is driven not only by more data center projects in the pipeline, but also by the larger size of those projects: among 50 new data center projects added to BNEF’s tracker in the past year, over a quarter are larger than 500MW. BNEF warns the grid is hitting a critical inflection point. In PJM Interconnection, projected data-center load could reach 31 GW by 2030, nearly equaling the 28.7 GW of new generation the EIA expects, meaning AI-driven demand may outpace supply. Data Center growth is shifting away from saturated hubs like Northern Virginia toward Georgia, southern/central Virginia, Texas, and other regions with available land, grid capacity, and fiber. Power has become the defining bottleneck in AI infrastructure. Data Center construction can move fast, so securing reliable, scalable megawatts requires long-cycle planning, committed generation, firm interconnection positions, and utility alignment. The groups that lock in power early will control the map, set the pace of deployment, and capture the highest-value workloads because the grid now determines where AI capacity can exist. Building AI Infrastructure? DM me to learn more about how Futura Energy Group delivers the talent to keep projects moving.

The 2025 Power List: Top Data Center Developers & Their Build Pipelines Demand for cloud, AI, edge, and storage is driving unprecedented growth. AI is the key catalyst, pushing innovation in sustainability and energy. With 73% of new construction preleased and colocation vacancy near zero, the market remains extremely tight vacancy is expected to stay around 2% through 2027. Futura Energy Group partner with leading digital infrastructure firms to secure the workforce that deliver power, advance sites, navigate utility interconnections, and get campuses built. Here are the developers deploying capacity at the fastest pace right now ranked by current footprint + new MW in development.

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600MW. Off-grid. Water-generating | Texas just launched a hyperscale outlier. Nexus Data Centers has surfaced with plans for a 612MW natural-gas-powered AI campus in Hubbard, Texas, spanning 2,000 acres and designed to operate fully behind the meter using onsite gas turbines and diesel backup. While financing and the end-user remain undisclosed, the scale makes it a near-certainty a top-tier cloud or AI hyperscaler is the anchor. The project introduces one of the most interesting sustainability features to hit the sector this year: Nexus has signed a Water Purchase Agreement with AirJoule, whose waste-heat-to-water system leverages a metal-organic framework recognized in the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. AirJoule will deploy its system in 2026, capturing water from turbine and data center heat and cycling it back into power generation, cooling, and site operations. Stakeholders & Alignment: ▪️ Nexus Data Centers — developer, energy-led leadership (CEO Ivan Van der Walt), utility-scale ambition. ▪️ AirJoule Technologies + GE Vernova JV delivering atmospheric water harvesting tied to thermal loads. ▪️ Local community significant tax revenue, hundreds of construction + operational jobs. ▪️ Likely hyperscaler unnamed but implied by the 600MW design envelope and development pattern. 600MW behind-the-meter generation signals a continued shift: hyperscale demand growth is outpacing utility timelines, forcing operators into private generation, private water, and private infrastructure. This model rewires utility capex planning, pushes load growth outside traditional regulatory cadence, and accelerates the “energy-first” site selection strategy that now governs AI infrastructure siting. Projects of this scale don't get built without specialist teams. Futura Energy Group is currently supporting utilities, developers, and hyperscalers with workforce solutions across generation, grid integration, mission-critical construction, and AI infrastructure delivery ensuring mega-campuses like Hubbard can be staffed, built, and scaled on schedule.

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