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Read Google To Invest $17B In First Wyoming Data Center Near Cheyenne
[Google](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/google) will invest $17 billion in its first data center in Wyoming, a campus in Laramie County near Cheyenne, the company [said](https://blog.google/innova...

Google To Invest $17B In First Wyoming Data Center Near Cheyenne

November 06, 2026 Cheyenne

Google will invest $17 billion in its first data center in Wyoming, a campus in Laramie County near Cheyenne, the company said on Nov. 5. The number puts a price on a project Baxtel reported in October, when American Electric Power disclosed a 20-year power purchase agreement to build a 702MW...

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Read ZutaCore Unveils Two-Phase Matrix Flow Boiling for AI Cold Plates
ZutaCore unveiled Two-Phase Matrix Flow Boiling, the cooling architecture inside its OmniTherm cold plate family, at OCP Global Summit 2026 on Oct. 13. The Foster City, California, company builds w...

ZutaCore Unveils Two-Phase Matrix Flow Boiling for AI Cold Plates

October 26, 2026 San Francisco Bay Area

ZutaCore unveiled Two-Phase Matrix Flow Boiling, the cooling architecture inside its OmniTherm cold plate family, at OCP Global Summit 2026 on Oct. 13. The Foster City, California, company builds waterless, direct-to-chip two-phase liquid cooling for AI and high-performance computing servers. The...

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Read Alcoa Sells New York Smelter to Data Center Developer in $315m Deal
Alcoa Corporation has agreed to sell parts of its former Massena East smelter in upstate New York to an unnamed data center developer for up to $315 million. The buyer was not disclosed, though cry...

Alcoa Sells New York Smelter to Data Center Developer in $315m Deal

October 19, 2026 New York

Alcoa Corporation has agreed to sell parts of its former Massena East smelter in upstate New York to an unnamed data center developer for up to $315 million. The buyer was not disclosed, though cryptominer NYDIG has previously been linked to the site, where an affiliate has filed plans for a data...

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Read AEP To Invest $4B In 702MW Fuel Cell Plant For Google
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](https://baxtel.com/data-...

AEP To Invest $4B In 702MW Fuel Cell Plant For Google

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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Read Microsoft Trims Mount Pleasant Data Center Plan To Seven Buildings From Nine
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 tax...

Microsoft Trims Mount Pleasant Data Center Plan To Seven Buildings From Nine

October 12, 2026 Milwaukee

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...

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Read NetworkOcean Runs Solar-Powered GPU Data Center on San Francisco Bay
San Francisco startup NetworkOcean says it has become the first company to run customer AI workloads from a solar-powered floating data center. The company operated a single Nvidia H100 GPU powered...

NetworkOcean Runs Solar-Powered GPU Data Center on San Francisco Bay

October 03, 2026 San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco startup NetworkOcean says it has become the first company to run customer AI workloads from a solar-powered floating data center. The company operated a single Nvidia H100 GPU powered by a 20kW solar array during a trial in San Francisco Bay. The customer was not disclosed....

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Read SBA Edge Opens Corpus Christi Edge Data Center And Fiber Exchange
SBA Edge has opened a multi-tenant edge data center and fiber interconnection exchange in downtown Corpus Christi, Texas. Jared Benson, director of strategic edge infrastructure at SBA, [announced ...

SBA Edge Opens Corpus Christi Edge Data Center And Fiber Exchange

July 21, 2026 South Texas

SBA Edge has opened a multi-tenant edge data center and fiber interconnection exchange in downtown Corpus Christi, Texas. Jared Benson, director of strategic edge infrastructure at SBA, announced the launch in July, and the carrier-neutral facility's meet-me room supports data speeds up to...

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Read Cannabis Company Wants to Turn Former Golf Course in New York into Data Center
Cannabis Company Wants to Turn Former Golf Course in New York into Data Center

Cannabis Company Wants to Turn Former Golf Course in New York into Data Center

April 02, 2026 New York

A cannabis firm is exploring plans to redevelop a former golf course in New York into a data center campus. OTC-listed Weed Inc. said it aims to repurpose its subsidiary’s 44-acre Sugar Hill Golf Course site in Chautauqua County, near Lake Erie, though full project details have not been...

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Read Micron to Break Ground on New York Megafab Campus Next Week
Micron to Break Ground on New York Megafab Campus Next Week

Micron to Break Ground on New York Megafab Campus Next Week

January 08, 2026 New York

Memory chipmaker Micron will break ground on a $100 billion semiconductor fab campus in Onondaga County, New York, on January 16. Consisting of four fabs when fully built, the so-called megafab is expected to be complete by Q3 2041 and will be the largest semiconductor facility in the US.In a...

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Read Token Cat and Better Now Plan Data Center in New York
Token Cat and Better Now Plan Data Center in New York

Token Cat and Better Now Plan Data Center in New York

December 30, 2025 New York

Chinese tech firm Token Cat and US-based Better Now have announced that they will collaborate to develop and operate an artificial intelligence data center in New York. The project will see a multi-phase roll-out to build a 30MW data center, with the company already having secured access to 12MW...

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Read TeraWulf to Lease New York Site to Fluidstack
TeraWulf to Lease New York Site to Fluidstack

TeraWulf to Lease New York Site to Fluidstack

August 14, 2025 New York

Cryptomine and HPC data center firm TeraWulf this week announced two 10-year high-performance computing (HPC) colocation agreements with Fluidstack. TeraWulf will deliver more than 200MW of critical IT load (~250MW of gross capacity) at its Lake Mariner data center campus in New York. The deal...

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Read Chiplet startup Baya Systems raises $36m in Series B funding round
Chiplet startup Baya Systems raises $36m in Series B funding round

Chiplet startup Baya Systems raises $36m in Series B funding round

January 25, 2025 New York

Chiplet technology startup Baya Systems has raised more than $36 million in a Series B funding round led by Maverick Silicon and backed by a strategic investment from Synopsys. It also saw participation from current investors, including Matrix Partners and Intel Capital.Growing AI workloads are...

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Read Novacap closes first digital infrastructure fund
Novacap closes first digital infrastructure fund

Novacap closes first digital infrastructure fund

January 24, 2025 New York

North American investment firm Novacap this week announced the final closing of Novacap Digital Infrastructure Fund I, the firm's first fund dedicated entirely to investing in digital infrastructure. The firm has also named its recently announced data center joint venture with H5, HyScale...

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Read GlobalFoundries to build an Advanced Packaging and Photonics Center in New York
GlobalFoundries to build an Advanced Packaging and Photonics Center in New York

GlobalFoundries to build an Advanced Packaging and Photonics Center in New York

January 22, 2025 New York

GlobalFoundries (GF) has announced plans to build an Advanced Packaging and Photonics Center in the state of New York, USA, described as the center as “the first of its kind.” The company said the new facility would allow semiconductors to be “securely manufactured, processed, packaged, and...

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Read Metrobloks raises $5.2 million in funding round
Metrobloks raises $5.2 million in funding round

Metrobloks raises $5.2 million in funding round

June 27, 2024 New York

Metrobloks, a new data center startup focused on metro projects this week announced an oversubscribed $5.2 million seed round led by Current Equity Partners with the backing of Serena Capital. The company noted that it designs, deploys, and operates modular and scalable data centers in...

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Read OpenAI president Greg Brockman quits as the company fires CEO
OpenAI president Greg Brockman quits as the company fires CEO

OpenAI president Greg Brockman quits as the company fires CEO

November 20, 2023 San Francisco Bay Area

OpenAI's co-founder and president, Greg Brockman, has quit the company after the board suddenly fired CEO Sam Altman last week. Brockman, who was initially made to step down as board chairman, has left the company. The board is yet to disclose the exact reason for firing Altman as the company...

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Read OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman fired from the company
OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman fired from the company

OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman fired from the company

November 19, 2023 San Francisco Bay Area

OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman has been fired as CEO of the artificial intelligence startup as the board denounces confidence in his leadership. In a statement released by the company, the board noted that it “no longer has confidence in his ability to lead.” Mira Murati, OpenAI’s chief technology...

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Read Quantum computing firm D-Wave faces delisting from NYSE again
Quantum computing firm D-Wave faces delisting from NYSE again

Quantum computing firm D-Wave faces delisting from NYSE again

October 26, 2023 New York

Quantum computing firm D-Wave is facing delisting from the New York Stock Exchange over its low stock price for the second time this year. The company announced this week that it received a notice from the NYSE that it is not in compliance with listing requirements as the average closing price of...

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Read Developers in San Jose, California, switch hotel plans for data center development
Developers in San Jose, California, switch hotel plans for data center development

Developers in San Jose, California, switch hotel plans for data center development

August 08, 2023 San Francisco Bay Area

Plans for an entertainment district development in San Jose, California, have been scrapped and replaced with data center plans, it has been announced. Back in 2018, developer Terra Ventures had initially pitched for development known as 'Shops @ Terra'; this would have been an...

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Read Circularity controversy: Bitcoin operations heats bathhouse in Brooklyn
Circularity controversy: Bitcoin operations heats bathhouse in Brooklyn

Circularity controversy: Bitcoin operations heats bathhouse in Brooklyn

July 03, 2023 New York

In New York City, Brooklyn, a bathhouse and spa named Bathhouse has shared that it is now heating its pools with mining, with the water from the pool, then going on to cool the hardware. The bathhouse and spa also Bitcoin payments. The company shared the news in an Instagram post: "Enjoy a...

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