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Read Google Backstops TeraWulf Debt for $19B Anthropic Campus in Kentucky
TeraWulf has secured Google as a credit backstop for the debt financing behind its Justified Data Campus in Hawesville, Kentucky ([TeraWulf press release](https://investors.terawulf.com/news-events...

Google Backstops TeraWulf Debt for $19B Anthropic Campus in Kentucky

November 05, 2026 Google

TeraWulf has secured Google as a credit backstop for the debt financing behind its Justified Data Campus in Hawesville, Kentucky (TeraWulf press release). The campus carries a 20-year lease with Anthropic worth about $19 billion (Reuters). Baxtel reported in July that the company was seeking...

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Read Google To Invest $15 Billion In Malaysia Data Center Expansion
[Google](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/google) will invest $15 billion in Malaysia to build new data center campuses, the company said in [its Nov. 4 announcement](https://www.googlecloudpresscor...

Google To Invest $15 Billion In Malaysia Data Center Expansion

November 04, 2026 Google

Google will invest $15 billion in Malaysia to build new data center campuses, the company said in its Nov. 4 announcement. The two-year program runs through 2027 and 2028 and expands on the $2 billion the company committed in 2024. It follows Baxtel's Nov. 2 report on Google's $160...

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Read OpenAI Rebrands Data Centers as Compute Campuses After Midterm Rebuke
[OpenAI](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/openai) is now calling its data centers compute campuses, a change that arrived with a policy package published two days after the midterms. The company rel...

OpenAI Rebrands Data Centers as Compute Campuses After Midterm Rebuke

November 04, 2026 OpenAI

OpenAI is now calling its data centers compute campuses, a change that arrived with a policy package published two days after the midterms. The company released a National Community Compact and a Compute Campus Policy Blueprint on Nov. 5. The compact covers future campuses that OpenAI owns and...

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Read Microsoft Signs Two Solar PPAs With Blueleaf For Japan Data Centers
[Microsoft](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/microsoft-azure) will buy the entire output of two new solar projects in [Japan](https://baxtel.com/regions/japan) developed by Blueleaf Energy under lon...

Microsoft Signs Two Solar PPAs With Blueleaf For Japan Data Centers

October 29, 2026 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft will buy the entire output of two new solar projects in Japan developed by Blueleaf Energy under long-term power purchase agreements. Macquarie Asset Management, which owns Blueleaf, said in a press release on Oct. 28 that its Energy Markets and Customer Solutions team coordinated both...

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Read Google Identified as User Behind 1,200MW Goochland Data Center Campus
Google is considering a 1,200MW data center campus on about 1,000 acres in Goochland County, Virginia, the county confirmed on Oct. 28. The [county's announcement](https://www.goochlandva.us/) name...

Google Identified as User Behind 1,200MW Goochland Data Center Campus

October 29, 2026 Google

Google is considering a 1,200MW data center campus on about 1,000 acres in Goochland County, Virginia, the county confirmed on Oct. 28. The county's announcement named Google as the company behind a project that appeared in Virginia regulatory filings in July without an identified owner....

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Read Microsoft Extends Data Center Useful Life To 25 Years As Cloud Revenue Rises 30%
[Microsoft](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/microsoft-azure) is extending the useful life of its data centers and office buildings to 25 years from 15, effective ![blogs.microsoft.com](/rails/activ...

Microsoft Extends Data Center Useful Life To 25 Years As Cloud Revenue Rises 30%

October 29, 2026 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is extending the useful life of its data centers and office buildings to 25 years from 15, effective this fiscal year. The company reported fiscal first-quarter Microsoft Cloud revenue up 30% on Oct. 28, with Azure revenue up 48%, according to Microsoft's earnings release....

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Read Oracle To Deploy Google TPUs On OCI In Multi-Gigawatt Deal
Oracle will sell Google's Tensor Processing Units through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure under a deal the companies [announced](https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/ai-world-oracle-brings-google-t...

Oracle To Deploy Google TPUs On OCI In Multi-Gigawatt Deal

October 28, 2026 Google

Oracle will sell Google's Tensor Processing Units through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure under a deal the companies announced on Oct. 27. The agreement makes OCI the first hyperscale cloud platform outside Google to offer the chips, Google Cloud said. TPU capacity on OCI is scheduled to become...

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Read Clayco and Kiewit Top Out First Building at Project Jupiter in New Mexico
Clayco and Kiewit New Mexico Co. topped out the 855,000-square-foot first building at Project Jupiter, a data center campus in Doña Ana County, [New Mexico](https://baxtel.com/regions/new-mexico). ...

Clayco and Kiewit Top Out First Building at Project Jupiter in New Mexico

October 27, 2026 OpenAI

Clayco and Kiewit New Mexico Co. topped out the 855,000-square-foot first building at Project Jupiter, a data center campus in Doña Ana County, New Mexico. The contractors placed the final structural beam atop the building, completing its primary structural framework, Clayco announced on October...

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Read Hermantown Sets Friday Vote On Google Data Center After Protests Halt Meetings
Hermantown has moved its City Council vote on Google's proposed data center to Friday after protests shut down two meetings. The city scheduled the session for 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 30 with the same si...

Hermantown Sets Friday Vote On Google Data Center After Protests Halt Meetings

October 27, 2026 Google

Hermantown has moved its City Council vote on Google's proposed data center to Friday after protests shut down two meetings. The city scheduled the session for 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 30 with the same six resolutions from the canceled Oct. 27 agenda, according to a city press release. The...

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Read OpenAI Seeks Permit To Fill 72 Acres Of Wetlands At Project Camellia
OpenAI has applied for a federal permit to fill 72 acres of wetlands at its Project Camellia data center campus in Georgia. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Savannah District is taking public comm...

OpenAI Seeks Permit To Fill 72 Acres Of Wetlands At Project Camellia

October 26, 2026 OpenAI

OpenAI has applied for a federal permit to fill 72 acres of wetlands at its Project Camellia data center campus in Georgia. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Savannah District is taking public comments on the application through Nov. 4, the Savannah Morning News reported. The campus is...

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Read Google Apologizes And Halts Work At Two Finnish Data Center Sites
Finland's Licensing and Supervision Authority has told Google subsidiary Tuike Finland to keep preparatory work at its [Muhos](https://baxtel.com/data-center/google-muhos) and [Kajaani](https://bax...

Google Apologizes And Halts Work At Two Finnish Data Center Sites

October 26, 2026 Google

Finland's Licensing and Supervision Authority has told Google subsidiary Tuike Finland to keep preparatory work at its Muhos and Kajaani data center sites suspended. The agency set an Oct. 23 deadline for felling, excavation, blasting and road building to stop at both sites, according to its...

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Read Google Expands Voltus Capacity Deal To More Than 1GW In PJM
Google will buy 1,070 MW of additional flexible capacity from Voltus in the PJM grid region. The companies [announced](https://www.voltus.co/press/google-voltus-1gw) the expansion of their Bring Yo...

Google Expands Voltus Capacity Deal To More Than 1GW In PJM

October 23, 2026 Google

Google will buy 1,070 MW of additional flexible capacity from Voltus in the PJM grid region. The companies announced the expansion of their Bring Your Own Capacity agreement on Oct. 22, adding 1,070 MW to the 100 MW they committed in June. Voltus aggregates flexible capacity from homes and...

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Read Crusoe Signs 106MW Paraguay AI Cloud Partnership With Araico
[Crusoe](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/crusoe) signed a [strategic partnership](https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/crusoe-partners-with-araico-to-deploy-ai-cloud-infrastructure-in-pa...

Crusoe Signs 106MW Paraguay AI Cloud Partnership With Araico

October 23, 2026 Crusoe

Crusoe signed a strategic partnership with Araico, a Paraguayan energy and infrastructure developer, to build AI compute infrastructure powered by the Itaipú Hydroelectric Dam. The first deployment is planned for mid-2027, with a path to 106 MW of IT capacity. Under the partnership, Araico leads...

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Read O-Green Replaces Vantage In 570MW Zaragoza Data Center Campus Plan
O-Green, an investment fund linked to the Sultanate of Oman, will finance a 570MW data center campus at San Mateo de Gállego in Zaragoza. The project replaces a [Vantage Data Centers](https://baxte...

O-Green Replaces Vantage In 570MW Zaragoza Data Center Campus Plan

October 23, 2026 Vantage Data Centers

O-Green, an investment fund linked to the Sultanate of Oman, will finance a 570MW data center campus at San Mateo de Gállego in Zaragoza. The project replaces a Vantage Data Centers campus announced for the same area in September 2025. elEconomista reports the total investment reaches €7.446...

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Read Vantage Secures 1GW Of Heron Solid-State Transformers For AI Campuses
[Vantage](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/vantage-data-centers) has reserved more than 1GW of manufacturing capacity for Heron Link, the solid-state transformer made by Heron Power Electronics, to ...

Vantage Secures 1GW Of Heron Solid-State Transformers For AI Campuses

October 22, 2026 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...

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Read Crusoe Takes 40MW Second Phase At Polar's Hydro-Powered Norway Campus
[Crusoe](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/crusoe) will take a second, larger building at [Polar Data Centers](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/polar-dc)' Tørdal campus in Norway. Polar announced the ...

Crusoe Takes 40MW Second Phase At Polar's Hydro-Powered Norway Campus

October 22, 2026 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...

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Read Microsoft Files for 422MW Three-Building Data Center Campus in Rome, Georgia
Microsoft filed for state review on October 20 of a three-building data center campus in Rome, Georgia, with 422MW of planned capacity. The [Development of Regional Impact application](https://dca....

Microsoft Files for 422MW Three-Building Data Center Campus in Rome, Georgia

October 22, 2026 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft filed for state review on October 20 of a three-building data center campus in Rome, Georgia, with 422MW of planned capacity. The Development of Regional Impact application covers 349 acres at 0 Huffaker Road and 1,659,000 square feet of floor space. Microsoft owns the land, bought in...

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Read Entergy Adds 440MW Solar PPA For Google West Memphis Expansion
Entergy Arkansas plans roughly $600 million of new generation and transmission for [Google](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/google)'s data center campus in [West Memphis](https://baxtel.com/data-ce...

Entergy Adds 440MW Solar PPA For Google West Memphis Expansion

October 20, 2026 Google

Entergy Arkansas plans roughly $600 million of new generation and transmission for Google's data center campus in West Memphis, Arkansas, with Google covering the cost. The utility announced a second phase of its service agreement on Oct. 19 that adds a 440 MW solar contract and two battery...

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Read Microsoft Exits Nscale's 50MW Loughton Data Center Deal In Essex
Microsoft has ended its agreement to anchor [Nscale](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/nscale)'s Loughton AI campus in Essex, the 50MW facility that UK ministers promoted as the country's largest sov...

Microsoft Exits Nscale's 50MW Loughton Data Center Deal In Essex

October 19, 2026 Microsoft Azure

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...

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Read Microsoft To Fund 1,100MW Of Indiana Generation Under 20-Year NiSource Deal
Microsoft will pay for all the generation and transmission needed to serve its La Porte, Indiana data center campus under a 20-year electric service agreement with [NiSource](https://www.nisource.c...

Microsoft To Fund 1,100MW Of Indiana Generation Under 20-Year NiSource Deal

October 19, 2026 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft will pay for all the generation and transmission needed to serve its La Porte, Indiana data center campus under a 20-year electric service agreement with NiSource announced Oct. 16. Service starts in 2028. The utility's unregulated affiliate, NiSource Generation Company, will add...

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