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October 05, 2026
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Crusoe
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 d...
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Vantage Data Centers
Vantage has reserved more than 1GW of manufacturing capacity for Heron Link, the solid-state transformer made by Heron Power Electronics, to deploy across its hyperscale data center campuses. The agreement, announced Oct. 21, delivers medium-voltage grid power straight to 800 volts DC, cutting ou...
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Uniserve Communications
Uniserve Communications will open a new Vancouver data center in the fourth quarter of 2026, starting with 1MW of capacity. The roughly 10,000-square-foot VAN-2 facility at 369 Terminal Avenue sits beside the operator's existing site and will support up to 30kW per rack, Uniserve said in an Octob...
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Amazon AWS
X-energy and American Electric Power will study a 960 MW advanced nuclear plant at a retired coal station in Sullivan County, Indiana, with Amazon funding development work and positioned to buy the plant's output. The companies announced a joint development agreement on Oct. 19 covering feasibili...
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Nscale
Nscale is in talks to sell Anthropic roughly $45 billion of AI computing capacity from a second building at its Monarch data center campus in West Virginia, a deal that would nearly double the AI lab's commitments to the Nvidia-backed neocloud. Bloomberg first reported the talks on Monday, and Re...
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Nscale
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 witho...
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EverWind
Halifax-based energy developer EverWind on Friday announced more than C$10 billion (about US$7.1 billion) in private investment for a data center campus at its Point Tupper industrial site in Richmond County, Nova Scotia, and Anthropic confirmed it signed a long-term lease for the first phase, th...
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PowerHouse Data Centers
Taylor City Council voted 5-0 on Oct. 8 to annex and approve a development agreement for Taylor Technology Campus, a 664-acre hyperscale project east of Taylor that Big Watt Digital and PowerHouse Data Centers say could support up to one gigaRendering of a PowerHouse data center campus developmen...
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Fermi America
Fermi America on Tuesday announced a credit support agreement with chipmaker AMD backing the first phase of its Project Matador energy and AI campus in Carson County, Texas, a 222 MW build the company described as a key milestone toward securingStaging and unloading of power generation equipment ...
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France
French AI consortium Aether Infrastructure has signed a preliminary agreement to acquire the former Dumarey Powerglide factory in Strasbourg’s Port du Rhin district for its first data center. Formed to develop two AI data centers under the European Commission’s AI gigafactories program, Aether ha...
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IREN
IREN outlined early plans this week for Redbank, a proposed 900 MW data center campus near Wagga Wagga in regional New South Wales. The Nasdaq-listed operator took the proposal to the local community ahead of a scoping report due to the state's Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure a...
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NTT
NTT Data Group is in the final stages of talks to build a data center in Osaka Prefecture for Anthropic, in what would be the U.S. AI developer's first dedicated facility in Japan. The project could draw up to 500 MW and cost as much as ¥1 trillion, abouArchitectural rendering of an NTT Kansai/Ke...
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Nebius
VOLT has lined up Nebius as the first off-taker at its Rotterdam AI Gigafactory, the anchor customer the Dutch developer needs before it can take a 600 MW campus at the Port of Rotterdam to lenders. The letter of intent, announced Monday, covers a long-term lease, with a first phase of two buildi...
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NTT
NTT Data Group is in the final stages of talks to build a data center in Osaka for Anthropic, Nikkei reported Tuesday. Construction could cost up to 1 trillion yen ($6.3 billion), and the site would draw Official NTT rendering of its large-scale Kansai data center campus development in western Ja...
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xAI
Memphis city councilors voted 7-5 on Oct. 6 to postpone a decision on a 12-month moratorium on new data centers, the second delay for a measure that would freeze approvals across a market now tied to Elon Musk's AI buildout. The council moved the vote to Oct. 2Wide shot of the xAI data center fac...
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Pacifico Energy
The first data center building at the 2,842-acre Cedar Creek campus being developed by Pacifico Energy and BlackChamber Group is on file with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. The October 7 filing, reported by Community Impact, outlines a $366 million building at the Bastrop Count...
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Cipher Digital
Cipher Digital has extended the contracted lease life of its Barber Lake data center in Colorado City, Texas from 10 years to 20, lifting total contracted revenue at the site from $3.8 billion to more than $9 billion. The increase, announced in late September as the first buildings near completio...
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Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has begun construction of KIX15, a 24-megawatt data center at its KIX Campus in Ibaraki City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, the company announced on Oct. 7. The facility is being developed by MC Digital Realty, the operator's 50/50 joint venture with Mitsubishi Corporation, and is sched...
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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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Texas
ThisWay Global plans a 73MW research and artificial intelligence computing center at the Texas A&M-RELLIS campus in Bryan, Texas, reviving a $700 million project that stalled when its original developer filed for bankruptcy. The Austin company announced the Research and AI Compute Center (RAC...
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