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Plans Filed for 400MW Data Center Campus Near Melbourne, Australia

Australia

HyperDC Pty Ltd has filed plans for a large-scale data center campus in Moorabool, outside Melbourne, Australia. The company submitted a planning permit application to the Victorian government for the proposed development. The project is planned for 715 Ballan Road, a largely vacant site outside ...

Colovore Files Plans for $430m Data Center in Fort Worth, Texas

Colovore

Colovore has filed plans for Colovore Alliance, a 156,500 sq ft (14,540 sqm) data center in Fort Worth, Texas. The $430m facility will be built on vacant land at 14700 Heritage Parkway, with construction scheduled from December 2026 to December 2028. The landowner is listed as AIL Investment LP, ...

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...

Schneider Electric and Equinix Trial Software-Defined Switchgear for Data Centers

Equinix

Equinix and Schneider Electric have partnered to pilot software-defined medium-voltage switchgear at an undisclosed Equinix data center. The technology, developed by Schneider Electric, is designed to reduce the need for specialized cabling and hardware in data centers. Schneider said the softwar...

Samsung Invests $1bn in KKR-Backed Helix Data Center Platform

Samsung SDS

Samsung has invested $1 billion in Helix Digital Infrastructure, the data center developer established by KKR. Helix and KKR announced on September 29 that Samsung committed the funding through its long-duration capital fund, providing additional capital to support Helix’s data center expansion. ...

Submer Launches Corenix Modular Data Center Infrastructure Platform

Submer

Submer Group has launched Corenix, a modular data center infrastructure company targeting neoclouds, hyperscalers, and AI operators. Corenix will design, build, integrate, and factory-test complete data center modules covering IT, power, cooling, and networking before deploying them on-site. The ...

Google Secures Approval to Expand Dublin Data Center

Google

Google has received planning approval from An Coimisiún Pleanála to expand its data center campus at Grange Castle Business Park in Dublin, following a lengthy dispute with South Dublin County Council. The company first proposed a 72,400 sqm (779,310 sq ft) third data center building at the campu...

HyperDC Files Plans for 400MW Data Center Campus West of Melbourne

Melbourne

HyperDC Pty Ltd has filed a planning permit application for a 400MW data center campus at 715 Ballan Road in Moorabool, about 75 kilometres west of Melbourne, as reported by Data Center Dynamics. The developer's website lists the 39-hectare parcel as MBL1 and states an intention to build 400MW of...

Global Switch to Deploy Nvidia Blackwell Systems at Paris Data Center

Global Switch

Global Switch has been chosen to host a large Nvidia Blackwell cluster at its data center in Paris, France. The mostly liquid-cooled deployment will be installed at Global Switch’s Nvidia DGX-ready facility in the city. The exact size has not been disclosed, but Global Switch described it as one ...

Virtus Raises £2.45bn to Fund Data Center Expansion

VIRTUS Data Centres Ltd

European data center operator Virtus Data Centres has secured a £2.45 billion ($3.25bn) financing package from a consortium of 13 banks. BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole CIB, Société Générale, and Standard Chartered Bank acted as coordinators and lead arrangers. The funding will support the developme...

The Case for Smaller Data Centers

Introduction: The cloud has a footprint A new data center campus is planned on the edge of a growing city. The proposal includes large buildings, a power substation, cooling equipment, and backup generators. The developer promises investment and jobs. Residents want to know how much electricity t...

Digital Realty Plans Cable Landing Station In Los Angeles, California

Digital Realty Bersama

Digital Realty is developing a new cable landing station (CLS) at its LAX12 data center in Los Angeles, California. The company announced the project last week, with the facility expected to support subsea cables from 2028. Digital Realty has not disclosed how many cables the CLS will accommodate...

Vertiv Expands Data Center Equipment Manufacturing Capacity In Slovakia

Vertiv

Vertiv is expanding its manufacturing facility in Slovakia to increase production capacity for data center power and cooling equipment. The company will add 22,000 sqm (236,806 sq ft) to its Nové Mesto nad Váhom campus in western Slovakia, with the expansion expected to take two years. The expans...

Goodman Withdraws Plans for 90MW Data Center Campus in Sydney, Australia

Goodman Group

Australian real estate firm Goodman Group has withdrawn plans for Project Mars, a 90MW data center campus in Sydney’s Lane Cove area. The company said the application was withdrawn following significant changes to the policy and regulatory environment for large-scale data center development since...

Top Data Center News for 21st - 26th September, 2026

United States

DOE Selects $1.9B In Grid Projects To Unlock 23GW Of Capacity The U.S. Department of Energy has revealed that it intends to put $1.9 billion of federal funding behind 31 grid-improvement projects in 26 states, a package aimed at adding transfer capacity for data centers and other large loads, the...

Generac Secures $8bn Backup Generator Deal With Amazon

Amazon AWS

Generac has signed a long-term deal to supply backup generators to Amazon’s data centers. The agreement includes about $2.4 billion in deliveries over two years and could reach $8 billion overall. Amazon will also have the option to buy nearly 1.7 million Generac shares. “It provides visibility t...

Digital Realty Appoints New Global Head Of Energy

Digital Realty Trust

US colocation data center firm Digital Realty has appointed Jim Collins as senior vice president and global head of energy. Collins joins from Microsoft, where he spent 13 years in various leadership roles, most recently as general manager of global energy markets. Before Microsoft, he spent a de...

Applied Digital Picks Brookwood, Alabama For $3.2bn, 210MW Delta Forge 2 Campus

Applied Digital

Applied Digital has confirmed Brookwood, Alabama, as the location of Delta Forge 2, its fifth AI Factory campus. The $3.2 billion project in Tuscaloosa County will deliver 210MW of critical IT load under a long-term lease with a US-based, investment-grade hyperscaler. Operations are targeted for ...

Switch Files Plans for 176-Acre Apex Data Center Campus in North Las Vegas

Switch

Switch has submitted a letter of intent to North Las Vegas officials for a roughly 175-acre data center campus at Apex Industrial Park, the first formal development proposal for a land position the company has quietly assembled along the US-93 corridor since the start of the year. KTNV Las Vegas ...

DensityAI, Founded By Former Tesla Dojo Execs, Valued At $10bn

Tesla

AI chip startup DensityAI has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in funding at a $10 billion valuation. According to The Information, Andreessen Horowitz is in talks to lead the round, while DensityAI has reportedly secured a purchase agreement with AWS based on performance requirements. Amaz...