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Data Centre Developer Sues New Jersey Town for $300m

Data centre developer Hexa Builders is seeking $300 million in damages from Monroe Township, New Jersey, after officials rejected its proposed 1 million sq ft data centre in May. The lawsuit, filed...

Data centre developer Hexa Builders is seeking $300 million in damages from Monroe Township, New Jersey, after officials rejected its proposed 1 million sq ft data centre in May. The lawsuit, filed in New Jersey Superior Court, alleges the township council and planning board violated multiple constitutional rights, including zoning authority, fundamental fairness, and First and Fourteenth Amendment protections. Hexa argues the application was rejected because of the township’s opposition to d...

August 01, 2026

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New Jersey

Read CX Tech Files Plans For 1GW Data Center Campus At Scotland's Chapelcross
CX Tech Ltd has lodged a planning application for a 1 GW data center and technology campus at the former Chapelcross nuclear power station near Annan, in Dumfries and Galloway, [Scotland](https://b...
October 03, 2026

CX Tech Files Plans For 1GW Data Center Campus At Scotland's Chapelcross

Scotland

CX Tech Ltd has lodged a planning application for a 1 GW data center and technology campus at the former Chapelcross nuclear power station near Annan, in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The company values the eight-building CX Technology Campus at £16.5 billion ($21.8 billion). The application, ...

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Read Valar Atomics Proposes 9.4GW Nuclear-Powered Data Center Campus in Utah
Nuclear startup Valar Atomics is seeking federal approval for Project Beehive, a data center campus on more than 9,000 acres of Bureau of Land Management property near Price, [Utah](https://baxtel....
October 01, 2026

Valar Atomics Proposes 9.4GW Nuclear-Powered Data Center Campus in Utah

Utah

Nuclear startup Valar Atomics is seeking federal approval for Project Beehive, a data center campus on more than 9,000 acres of Bureau of Land Management property near Price, Utah, that would run on 456 small modular reactors built at the site. NPR, which first reported the filing, says the plan ...

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Read Crusoe Confirms Google AI Campus In Texas With 531MW Wind Link
Crusoe is the developer behind Google's data center campus under construction in Armstrong County, Texas, the company [said on Sept. 28](https://www.crusoe.ai/resources/newsroom/crusoe-developing-d...
October 01, 2026

Crusoe Confirms Google AI Campus In Texas With 531MW Wind Link

Crusoe

Crusoe is the developer behind Google's data center campus under construction in Armstrong County, Texas, the company said on Sept. 28. The site sits outside Amarillo, and it pairs with 531 megawatts of adjacent West Texas wind, a design that puts generation rather than land at the center of the ...

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Read Meta Signs for GPU Capacity at Firmus AI Factories in Southeast Asia
[Meta](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/meta) has signed strategic AI infrastructure agreements with Australian AI factory developer [Firmus Technologies](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/firmus-tech...
September 30, 2026

Meta Signs for GPU Capacity at Firmus AI Factories in Southeast Asia

Firmus Technologies

Meta has signed strategic AI infrastructure agreements with Australian AI factory developer Firmus Technologies for GPU compute capacity at Firmus sites across Southeast Asia, the companies announced Tuesday. The agreements cover contracted capacity plus options to expand, and Capital Brief repor...

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Read Meta Signs Deal to Use AI Capacity at Firmus Data Centers in Southeast Asia
Meta has agreed to lease AI compute capacity from Australian neocloud Firmus across its upcoming Southeast Asian data centers. The deal expands an existing partnership under which Meta leases Nvidi...
September 30, 2026

Meta Signs Deal to Use AI Capacity at Firmus Data Centers in Southeast Asia

Meta

Meta has agreed to lease AI compute capacity from Australian neocloud Firmus across its upcoming Southeast Asian data centers. The deal expands an existing partnership under which Meta leases Nvidia GB300 NVL72 capacity at Firmus’ Melbourne facility. Firmus is developing AI factories with DayOne ...

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Read Schneider Electric Launches 2.5MW Power Modules For AI Data Centers
Schneider Electric has launched a new range of 2.5MW power modules for hyperscale, neocloud, colocation, and AI data centers. The standardized, prefabricated modules and power skids use Schneider’s...
September 16, 2026

Schneider Electric Launches 2.5MW Power Modules For AI Data Centers

Hyperscale Data, Inc.

Schneider Electric has launched a new range of 2.5MW power modules for hyperscale, neocloud, colocation, and AI data centers. The standardized, prefabricated modules and power skids use Schneider’s Galaxy VXL UPS technology and are based on reference designs developed with Nvidia for its GB300 NV...

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Read Bitdeer Acquires 200 Acres In Milam County, Texas, For AI And HPC Expansion
Bitdeer has acquired a 200-acre site in Milam County, Texas, for $100 million to support its AI and HPC infrastructure expansion. The land, formerly part of an Alcoa aluminum smelting plant, is adj...
September 05, 2026

Bitdeer Acquires 200 Acres In Milam County, Texas, For AI And HPC Expansion

BitDeer

Bitdeer has acquired a 200-acre site in Milam County, Texas, for $100 million to support its AI and HPC infrastructure expansion. The land, formerly part of an Alcoa aluminum smelting plant, is adjacent to Bitdeer’s existing Rockdale data center. The company said the combined sites provide 563MW ...

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Read Infineon Partners With Skeleton Technologies On AI Data Center Power Systems
Infineon has partnered with Estonian power and storage company Skeleton Technologies to develop efficient and resilient power systems for AI data centers. Under a non-binding MoU, the companies wil...
September 01, 2026

Infineon Partners With Skeleton Technologies On AI Data Center Power Systems

Germany / Deutschland

Infineon has partnered with Estonian power and storage company Skeleton Technologies to develop efficient and resilient power systems for AI data centers. Under a non-binding MoU, the companies will explore power architectures covering the grid-to-data-center chain, including Solid State Transfor...

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Read Fossefall Partners With Armada For AI Data Center Deployments
Fossefall has partnered with Armada to deploy modular AI data centers across the Nordic region. The company will deploy five of Armada’s Leviathan modular data centers, providing a combined 9MW of ...
August 29, 2026

Fossefall Partners With Armada For AI Data Center Deployments

Fossefall

Fossefall has partnered with Armada to deploy modular AI data centers across the Nordic region. The company will deploy five of Armada’s Leviathan modular data centers, providing a combined 9MW of capacity by Q1 2027. The partnership covers Norway, Sweden, and Finland, with the initial contract v...

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Read OpenAI Secures Approval For 3.2GW Power Deal For Georgia Data Center
The Georgia Public Service Commission has approved a power supply agreement between Georgia Power and OpenAI for its planned data center in Effingham County. Under the deal, Georgia Power will add ...
August 27, 2026

OpenAI Secures Approval For 3.2GW Power Deal For Georgia Data Center

OpenAI

The Georgia Public Service Commission has approved a power supply agreement between Georgia Power and OpenAI for its planned data center in Effingham County. Under the deal, Georgia Power will add 3.2GW of generation capacity, with OpenAI covering the full infrastructure costs. The type of genera...

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Read OpenAI’s Head Of Data Centers Chris Malone Departs Amid Leadership Changes
Chris Malone has left OpenAI after 18 months as head of data centers, amid several recent executive departures and changes within the company’s data center team. Malone joined OpenAI from Meta, whe...
August 26, 2026

OpenAI’s Head Of Data Centers Chris Malone Departs Amid Leadership Changes

OpenAI

Chris Malone has left OpenAI after 18 months as head of data centers, amid several recent executive departures and changes within the company’s data center team. Malone joined OpenAI from Meta, where he spent nearly five years as a distinguished engineer. Before that, he worked at Google for almo...

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Read SpaceX's First Earnings Call Was Mostly a Data Center Call
SpaceX reported second-quarter results Tuesday, its first quarterly report as a public company. One might have expected the call to focus on rockets and Starlink. But with [xAI](https://baxtel.com/...
August 05, 2026

SpaceX's First Earnings Call Was Mostly a Data Center Call

xAI

SpaceX reported second-quarter results Tuesday, its first quarterly report as a public company. One might have expected the call to focus on rockets and Starlink. But with xAI folded into the company, the call spent only about ten minutes on rockets. The rest of the call was about data center inf...

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Read AWS Plans 800,000 sq ft Data Center Campus at GWU Site in Ashburn
Details have emerged about Amazon's latest planned data center campus in Northern Virginia. Loudoun County Supervisor Juli E. Briskman (D-Algonkian) said this week that Amazon has filed plans to de...
July 31, 2026

AWS Plans 800,000 sq ft Data Center Campus at GWU Site in Ashburn

Amazon AWS

Details have emerged about Amazon's latest planned data center campus in Northern Virginia. Loudoun County Supervisor Juli E. Briskman (D-Algonkian) said this week that Amazon has filed plans to develop a four-building, 800,000 sq ft (74,320 sqm) data center campus at the former George Washington...

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Read Baker Hughes, Google Cloud Team on Data Center AI
Baker Hughes, Google Cloud Team on Data Center AI
March 27, 2026

Baker Hughes, Google Cloud Team on Data Center AI

Google

US energy firm Baker Hughes has partnered with Google Cloud to develop AI tools aimed at optimizing power use and improving data center sustainability. The collaboration targets growing energy demand driven by AI and cloud expansion, with both companies exploring how to better leverage industr...

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Read Eleveight AI Deploys 512 Nvidia B300 GPUs at 2MW Armenia Data Center
Eleveight AI Deploys 512 Nvidia B300 GPUs at 2MW Armenia Data Center
March 23, 2026

Eleveight AI Deploys 512 Nvidia B300 GPUs at 2MW Armenia Data Center

Armenia

Armenian startup Eleveight AI has installed 512 Nvidia B300 GPUs at its AI data center in Gagarin, with construction of the facility set to be completed this month. The company said the hardware is already in place, adding that the facility is designed to run on a renewable-heavy power mix and...

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Read OpenAI Reshuffles Leadership Amid Data Center Strategy Reset
OpenAI Reshuffles Leadership Amid Data Center Strategy Reset
March 18, 2026

OpenAI Reshuffles Leadership Amid Data Center Strategy Reset

OpenAI

OpenAI has reorganized its leadership as it shifts toward leasing more AI capacity from cloud providers. The company is still pursuing its global Stargate data center buildout with Oracle and SoftBank, but recent reports suggest it may scale back expansion plans in favor of rented infrastructu...

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Read Ciena Launches New Optical Engine Designed For The AI-driven Data Center Era
Ciena Launches New Optical Engine Designed For The AI-driven Data Center Era
February 26, 2026

Ciena Launches New Optical Engine Designed For The AI-driven Data Center Era

United States

In its first new solution since acquiring Nubis Communications last year, Ciena continues to tackle data center AI demands with the launch of a flexible, high-density pluggable optical engine, Vesta 200 6.4T CPX. The new solution is claimed to reduce power consumption by up to 70 percent, whil...

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Read CPower, Bentaus, and Supermicro Complete AI Data Center Energy Orchestration Pilot Project in California
CPower, Bentaus, and Supermicro Complete AI Data Center Energy Orchestration Pilot Project in California
February 25, 2026

CPower, Bentaus, and Supermicro Complete AI Data Center Energy Orchestration Pilot Project in California

United States

 In collaboration with Supermicro, US virtual power producer (VPP) CPower Energy and AI orchestration platform Bentaus have completed a joint demonstration project aimed at improving how AI compute interacts with the power grid.  As part of the trial, CPower transmitted real-time wholesale ele...

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Read OpenAI Teams up with Tata to Expand Data Center Capacity in India
OpenAI Teams up with Tata to Expand Data Center Capacity in India
February 19, 2026

OpenAI Teams up with Tata to Expand Data Center Capacity in India

OpenAI

TCS’ HyperVault unit and OpenAI have agreed to a multi-year partnership to develop AI infrastructure in India. In the initial phase, TCS will develop AI infrastructure with 100MW of capacity, with an option to scale to 1GW.Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI, said: “India is already leading the way in AI ...

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Read Singtel’s Nxera Launches New Data Center in Singapore
Singtel’s Nxera Launches New Data Center in Singapore
February 09, 2026

Singtel’s Nxera Launches New Data Center in Singapore

Singtel

Singtel has launched a new data center in Singapore. Nxera, The company's data center arm, this week announced the opening of DC Tuas, its largest facility in Singapore. With 58MW of capacity, the company claimed DC Tuas is Singapore’s highest-capacity data center.Bill Chang, CEO of Nxera and ...

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