October 23, 2026 Singapore
ZTE launched the ZXEDC M8000 Intelligent Computing Micro-Module at Data Center World Asia in Singapore, an integrated IT pod built for AI data centers. The company announced the product in a release published Oct. 20 (ZTE). The module combines an enclosed cold aisle, liquid-cooled racks, network...
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October 23, 2026 Aragon
O-Green, an investment fund linked to the Sultanate of Oman, will finance a 570MW data center campus at San Mateo de Gállego in Zaragoza. The project replaces a Vantage Data Centers campus announced for the same area in September 2025. elEconomista reports the total investment reaches €7.446...
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October 23, 2026 Aragon
Krolmap Engineering & Solutions plans a 225MW data center campus in Belchite, Zaragoza, that would run largely on self-generated power. The Aragonese engineering firm puts the investment at €1.5 billion ($1.68bn) for 25 hectares in the La Legua industrial park, Heraldo de Aragón reported on...
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October 22, 2026 Norway
Crusoe will take a second, larger building at Polar Data Centers' Tørdal campus in Norway. Polar announced the expansion on Oct. 21 (announcement). The new building, DRA02, will add 40MW of liquid-cooled critical IT capacity on hydroelectric power and is due online in late 2027. Crusoe plans to...
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October 22, 2026 Wales
Era4 has released details of The Mill, an AI campus on a former steelworks in Newport, South Wales, designed to reach 1GW of power at full build-out. The campus has room for the equivalent of up to 400,000 Nvidia VR200 GPUs, and the first phase is due online in 2027. Data Center Dynamics reported...
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October 22, 2026 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft filed for state review on October 20 of a three-building data center campus in Rome, Georgia, with 422MW of planned capacity. The Development of Regional Impact application covers 349 acres at 0 Huffaker Road and 1,659,000 square feet of floor space. Microsoft owns the land, bought in...
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October 21, 2026 Ohio
Cleveland City Council voted on the night of Oct. 19 to extend the city's moratorium on new data centers through Jan. 29, 2027, or until council enacts permanent rules. The extension keeps zoning permits and occupancy certificates frozen for new standalone data centers and also covers expansions...
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October 21, 2026 Oslo
Magnora Data Center ASA has acquired an operating data center in Oslo from an international telecom operator, adding up to 2MW of IT load. The seller is not named, and financial terms were not disclosed. Magnora Data Center owns 75 percent of the facility, and Blix Group AS, the owner of...
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October 19, 2026 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has ended its agreement to anchor Nscale's Loughton AI campus in Essex, the 50MW facility that UK ministers promoted as the country's largest sovereign AI data center when it was announced in 2025. The withdrawal, first reported by The Telegraph on Oct. 18, leaves the £2bn project...
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October 19, 2026 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft will pay for all the generation and transmission needed to serve its La Porte, Indiana data center campus under a 20-year electric service agreement with NiSource announced Oct. 16. Service starts in 2028. The utility's unregulated affiliate, NiSource Generation Company, will add...
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October 19, 2026 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft will fund about 1,100 MW of new generation and transmission in northern Indiana and buy the output for 20 years under an agreement with NiSource, the holding company that owns Northern Indiana Public Service Company. Announced Friday, the deal covers the La Porte data center campus...
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October 15, 2026 Cheyenne
American Electric Power will invest about $4 billion in a 702 MW fuel cell generation project near Cheyenne, Wyoming, under a 20-year power purchase agreement with Google, the utility announced. The plant is being developed through Cheyenne Fuel Cell, LLC, and is targeted to reach full operation...
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October 15, 2026 Northern Virginia
State Sen. Russet Perry on Tuesday released draft legislation that would halt approvals for new data centers across Virginia for three years, escalating the political fight over the industry's growth in the world's largest data center market. Senate Bill 843 would take effect July 1, 2027 and...
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October 14, 2026 Johor
A seven-bank consortium has added RM15 billion, about US$3.67 billion, to DayOne's Johor data center financing, lifting the Singapore-headquartered operator's debt platform in Malaysia's southern state to RM30 billion, or roughly US$7.3 billion. The lenders set out the upsizing in a joint...
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October 14, 2026 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has acquired 600 acres in Woodward, around 30 miles northwest of Des Moines, Iowa, for a potential data center campus. The purchase was disclosed at a residents’ meeting on October 12, four days after the sale closed. The site lies between Highway 141 and Seminole Avenue, but...
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October 13, 2026 Northern Virginia
Texas now has more data center capacity operating and under construction than Virginia. Baxtel tracks 28.3 GW built or building in Texas, against 17.8 GW in Virginia. On capacity already online, Virginia still leads, 12.3 GW to 11.1 GW. If projects scheduled for this year deliver on time, Texas...
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October 12, 2026 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has cut the number of buildings planned for the 791-acre Durand Avenue portion of its Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, data center campus to seven from nine, reducing the parcel's projected taxable value by about 24 percent, or nearly $1.9 billion, the Milwaukee Business Journal reported on...
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October 10, 2026 Finland
Finnish regulators have ordered a halt to work at two planned Google data centers after more than 300 hectares of forest were cleared before mandatory environmental impact assessments were completed, the BBC reported. The order covers the company's project sites in Muhos and Kajaani, both in the...
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October 08, 2026 Finland
French AI infrastructure company Sesterce said Thursday it plans to invest more than €10 billion ($11.2 billion) to convert the former Kaipola paper mill in Jämsä, Central Finland, into a 600 MW AI data center campus. The company's announcement outlines a 200 MW first phase and confirms an anchor...
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October 06, 2026 Finland
Applied Digital (NASDAQ: APLD) has secured access to as much as 1 GW of potential power capacity in Finland, its first development opportunity outside the United States, the Dallas-based AI data center developer said on October 6. The planned AI Factory campus can scale to 1 GW, with initial...
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