Eric Yaout

Maine Set to Become First State to Freeze Large Data Center Construction

Maine

Maine is on track to become the first U.S. state to impose a moratorium on large data center development. The state House of Representatives passed LD 307 last month, which would prohibit state and local governments from issuing permits for data centers with electrical loads of 20 MW or more u...

Fluence targets AI data centers with battery storage

TLDR: Fluence used its Q3 FY2025 call to spotlight AI data centers as a new growth vector for battery storage, saying it is working directly with leading operators while it tests ultra‑fast response solutions. Revenue rebounded QoQ to $602.5M and backlog held at $4.9B, but FY2025 revenue is no...

NTT reveals details of its 240 MW Phoenix data center campus

NTT Phoenix Campus

NTT has revealed plans for its new 240MW data center campus in Mesa, Arizona. It has also broken ground on the site. The facility is on a 102-acre site, and it is located on Elliot Road Technology Corridor, Mesa, Arizona. It will have a 240MW capacity and 1.5 million square feet of floor space...

Turkcell announces acquisition of 18MW wind farm in Turkey

Turkcell

Turkcell, a Turkish telecoms company with a portfolio of 26 data centers, has announced that its subsidiary Turkcell Enerji, has acquired Boyut Grup Enerji, which owns İzmir Karadağ Wind Power Plant.The deal worth $29.6 million means that Turkcell now has access to 18MW of wind farm energy. T...

Amazon's second Drogheda data center jeopardizes environmental targets

Hyperscale Data Center

An Taisce, the Irish National Trust, have rallied against Amazon building its second data center on its Drogheda site in County Meath. Although the facility was given the go-ahead in June, the Irish planning board is now awaiting an appeal by the environmental group. It says that the authoriti...

STT Telemedia opens its 40MW data center in Loyang, Singapore

STT Singapore 6

St Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has finally opened its Loyang facility in Singapore. In 2018, the Company announced that it would open the facility in mid-2020. However, the coronavirus pandemic caused a lot of construction delays. However, STT GDC says it reduced the effects by pr...

Innit doubles data center capacity at Bulk’s Oslo Internet Exchange (OS-IX) facility

Bulk: Oslo Internet Exchange (OS-IX)

Bulk Infrastructure has announced that integrator and software developer Innit has doubled its data center capacity at its Oslo Internet Exchange (OS-IX) facility. The expansion plans were solidified on January 21st through the signing of a new order on the Master Service Agreement (MSA).Spea...

Officials voted to rezone lands in Naas, Ireland for data centers

Republic of Ireland

The local officials in Naas, Kildare, Ireland, have rezoned two plots of land to host data centers. Earlier this week, the Kildare County council voted to rezone these lands for data center use as an update to the Naas 2021-2027 local area plan. The two sites are said to be 91 and 106 acres, w...

TDC Net expands eco-footprint with four solar farms

Denmark

TDC Net, the Danish telecoms firm, has announced that it is moving forward with four new solar parks. This comes following TDC Net signing a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Better Energy. By 2023, the four farms will be capable of supplying 140GWh of energy each year. By 2028, the company ...

Regulators instruct Facebook to review power purchase agreements in New Mexico

Hyperscale Data Center

Regulators have instructed Facebook to renegotiate the terms of its proposed power purchase agreements regarding solar energy and energy storage facilities in New Mexico.The agreement relates to 50MW of solar energy from Encino North Solar Energy Center, 190MW of solar from Sky Ranch Solar Fac...