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atNorth Plans €2B Salo Data Center With 75MW First Phase, 230MW Path
October 05, 2026
Posted by: Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji
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Memphis
Memphis councilors rejected an 18-month data center moratorium, opting instead for a 135-day pause on new applications and a 90-day review of digital infrastructure projects. The longer proposal followed public opposition and protests at an October 6 council meeting. After a five-and-a-half-hour ...
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South Korea
SC Capital Partners has invested in NeoAI Cloud’s 40MW data center in Pohang, South Korea, alongside government-backed investors. Construction has begun, with completion targeted for late 2027. The facility will support AI workloads with liquid cooling designed for Nvidia Vera Rubin systems. The ...
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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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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 proje...
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CBRE
CBRE has agreed to acquire UK-based data center services provider Onnec Group Limited. The NYSE-listed company announced a definitive agreement to acquire the firm, which provides data center infrastructure services to technology companies across Europe and Asia Pacific. Founded in 1986 and headq...
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Ukraine
A ballistic strike overnight rendered a Datagroup-owned data center in Kyiv, Ukraine, inoperable. The telecoms company said restoring and operating the facility is “impossible.” The wider attack destroyed a shopping and entertainment center and damaged a medical facility and a 25-story residentia...
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Taiwan
Taiwanese data center and telecoms provider Chief Telecom has begun construction of a 16MW facility at Central Taiwan Science Park’s Huwei Park in Yunlin County. The 1.5-hectare site will house 3,335 sqm (35,897 sq ft) of data center space, supporting both air- and water-cooled systems. The proj...
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United Kingdom
Evolution Power Limited has opened a community consultation on Longmarsh Green Energy, a proposal pairing a data center campus that would draw up to 1GW with a 1.3GW solar farm and battery storage across about 4,695 acres of farmland near King's Lynn in west Norfolk. The developer says the scheme...
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Digital Realty Bersama
Digital Realty has broken ground on a 22MW data center in Ankara, Türkiye, first announced in September. The facility is expected to go live in 2028, though further details have not been disclosed. The project is being developed in partnership with Turkish investment firm Rönesans Infrastructure....
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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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Google is considering developing a data center campus at Wood Haven Technology Park in Roanoke County, Virginia. Google and the Western Virginia Regional Industrial Facility Authority confirmed the potential project on October 16. Google's regional public affairs manager, Clay Allsop, said: “Goog...
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United States
Microsoft Acquires 600 Acres for Data Center Development in Woodward, Iowa Microsoft has acquired 600 acres in Woodward, around 30 miles northwest of Des Moines, Iowa, valued at around $37.4 million, for a potential gigawatt scale data center campus expected to support cloud computing and data st...
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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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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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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 GeDirectly depicts the official gro...
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Microsoft Azure
Microsoft will fund about 1,100 MW of new generation and transmission in northern Indiana and buy the output for 20 years under an agreement with NiSource, the holding company that owns Northern Indiana Public Service Company. Announced Friday, the deal covers the La Porte data center campus Micr...
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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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New York State
Alcoa will sell portions of its long-idled Massena East aluminum smelter in northern New York to a developer that plans to build a data center on the property, a transaction the company values at up to $315 million. Alcoa disclosed the definitive agreement in its third-quarter 2026 results on Oct...
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Carrier Connect Data Solutions
Carrier Connect Data Solutions has secured a customer for its newly acquired 4MW data center at 1001 Windward Concourse in Alpharetta, Georgia. The five-year agreement could generate CA$88.9 million (US$63.15m) in billings, based on an initial 3MW deployment, with the lease beginning in November ...
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Poland
Hillwood Polska has revised plans for a 130MW data center campus in Reguły, southwest of Warsaw, following local opposition. The buildings will be smaller and located farther from residential areas. “We carefully considered residents' opinions and treated them as an important element of the proj...
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