Global Data Center News

October 08, 2026

CoreWeave Enters India With 240MW AdaniConneX Lease In Navi Mumbai

CoreWeave

CoreWeave will lease 240MW of data center capacity in Navi Mumbai from AdaniConneX, marking the AI cloud provider's first deployment in India. The companies announced the plan on October 6, Interior perspective of CoreWeave's purpose-built AI data center facility.with the first phase due online i...

October 08, 2026

Sesterce Plans €10B, 600MW AI Campus at Former Finnish Paper Mill

Sesterce

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 Ground-level view of the Kaipola indu...

October 07, 2026

AWS Files 36-Building Data Center Plan at 4.5GW Homer City Campus

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services has formally signed on to the largest gas-powered data center project in the United States. Amazon Data Services, Inc., the company's development arm, filed a Preliminary Land Development Plan with the Indiana County planning commission on August 28 under the project name PIT1...

October 06, 2026

Firmus and CDC Scrap 1.6GW Project Southgate With Just 42MW Built

Firmus Technologies

Firmus Technologies and CDC Data Centres have scrapped Project Southgate, their plan to build up to 1.6GW of AI factories across Australia, after deploying about 42MW, roughly 2.5 percent of the original target. "Firmus and CDC mutually agreed earlier this year not to proceed with the previously ...

October 06, 2026

Applied Digital Secures 1 GW Of Finnish Power For First Campus Outside US

Applied Digital

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 powe...

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atNorth Plans €2B Salo Data Center With 75MW First Phase, 230MW Path

atNorth will develop a €2 billion data center, FIN05, in Salo, Finland, on a 28.6-hectare site, with 75 MW of power secured for the first phase and a path to as much as 230 MW. The Nordic operator announced the plan on October 5. Power will arrive through a new Fingrid substation.Exterior view of atNorth's operational FIN02 data center facility in Finland.The first phase is scheduled to go live in 2028. atNorth expects to invest roughly €2 billion in the site itself. Customer-owned servers an...

October 05, 2026

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atNorth

October 04, 2026

New Jersey Fines DataOne $1.07M Over Unpermitted Vineland Generators

DataOne

Newly obtained public records show that a 300-megawatt data center under construction in Vineland, New Jersey, ran 62 unpermitted natural gas generators for nearly a year and released an estimated 140 tons of smog-forming nitrogen oxides before state regulators intervened, according to an investi...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

September 30, 2026

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

July 31, 2026

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