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Meta has finally launched its 2.3 million square feet DeKalb, Illinois, data center three years after construction began. According to the company, this construction took over $1 billion to complete and required 1,200 skilled workers. This site is expected to provide over 200 operational jobs ...

X, the social media company formerly known as Twitter, claims to have saved $100 million annually after exiting its Sacramento data center via a post on the platform. X further claimed to have saved a significant amount by repatriating some of its workloads to on-prem data centers. The company...

The Minnesota St. Louis Park City Council has approved a conditional use permit (CUP) for constructing a data center at 6400 Walker Street. Information from the district’s website reveals that the new center will be built southeast of the football field and next to an existing maintenance buil...

On Friday, July 7, UH Energy will host an educational symposium with a focus on hydrocarbon basin analysis, policy changes, and hydrocarbon opportunities in India to mark the opening of the new University of Houston (UH) - Directorate General for Hydrocarbon (DGH) Center for Hydrocarbon Explor...

Twitter formerly used the Sacramento site of NTT Global Data Centers, but now it is home to Musk's electric car company. Twitter departed the data center in late 2022, with the CEO disparaging the area. Tesla will now occupy the space as well as extra square footage.The data center will likely...

The University of Minnesota has announced that it's moving forward with a new $70 million-plus data center on the East Bank campus. The university is reportedly accepting design proposals for a two-story, 33,000-square-foot "Advanced Operations Center." The facility will be located west of the...

Illinois's former HSBC data center will be auctioned off later this month. On June 6-8, Cushman & Wakefield will auction off a data center in Volo via LoopNet. According to the listing, the Volo Data Center is a 160,000-square-foot data facility on a 42-acre lot at 300 S Fish Lake Road. Vo...

A data center for sale or lease is available in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Colliers and Five 9s Digital are offering the McKees Rock facility located at 615 McMichael Road. The site is listed for lease in Colliers' materials, but Five 9s claims it can be purchased or leased. The circa 1980-cons...

Netrality Data Centers has announced that it is expanding capacity at its Houston data center at 1301 Fannin Street. The company has shared that it will add two new data center halls spanning 17,000 square feet and offering over 2.5 megawatts of critical capacity.Due to come online at the end ...

Microblogging social media platform Twitter has undergone extensive changes as of late since the takeover by Elon Musk. From the introduction of Musk's paid verification plan, slashing nearly half of the platform's workforce in November, and his massive cost-cutting exercise, Musk's tenure as ...

Basin Electric has reportedly reached out for state approval for a power plant expansion in McKenzie County to accommodate the growing power requirements of the data center industry. The state Public Service Commission (PCS) received the company's expansion request back in October, which would...

A $1 billion data center project could be on the way to Becker, Minnesota, as Xcel Energy Inc. announces plans to sell 348 acres of land at its Sherco location to an unknown data center company. This company is currently going by the name Elk River Technologies and was reportedly incorporated ...

After announcing plans to build 200 megawatts of data centers in North Dakota over the next two to three years back in June, Bitzero has announced plans to redevelop a northeastern North Dakota anti-ballistic missile site into a data center. The $6 billion Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Comple...

Bitcoin mining company Bitzero, reportedly a "100% green company," recently made a number of announcements related to its expansion and headquarters location. Plans to build 200 megawatts of data centers in North Dakota over the next two to three years were announced, and the state was also ch...

Diode Ventures is looking to develop a massive data center campus in Kansas. The company filed a preliminary plan for a data center campus called Creek Technology Park. The campus will sit on an undeveloped 359 acres of land in the northeast of US Highway 169 and Interstate 435 in Missouri....

The State of Illinois has announced the purchase of 9.4 acres of land at the Dirksen Business Park in the 2900 block of Dotmar Drive, which will be home to a new data center. The $80.5 million facility will be run by the state Department of Innovation and Technology and will reportedly enable ...

A huge data center is on its way to Williston, North Dakota. Atlas Power Data Center is the $1.9 billion project which will be built by Montana-based FX Solutions and owned and operated by Atlas Power. The first phase of the project is expected to be completed by 2024. Governor D...