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Read Crusoe Secures $3.9B For AI Data Center Expansion
AI data center and cloud company Crusoe has raised $3.9 billion in a Series F funding round, valuing the company at $30.9 billion. The round was co-led by Atreides Management, Mubadala Capital, and...

Crusoe Secures $3.9B For AI Data Center Expansion

September 18, 2026 Crusoe

AI data center and cloud company Crusoe has raised $3.9 billion in a Series F funding round, valuing the company at $30.9 billion. The round was co-led by Atreides Management, Mubadala Capital, and Valor Equity Partners, with additional investment from Founders Fund, GIC, Nvidia, QIA, Radical...

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Read Bitdeer AI Secures 65MW Data Center Lease In Johor, Malaysia
Bitdeer AI has signed a 10-year data center services agreement for the 65.1MW A202 facility in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. The liquid-cooled facility will host Nvidia GB300 and NVL72 systems and is Bitd...

Bitdeer AI Secures 65MW Data Center Lease In Johor, Malaysia

September 18, 2026 BitDeer

Bitdeer AI has signed a 10-year data center services agreement for the 65.1MW A202 facility in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. The liquid-cooled facility will host Nvidia GB300 and NVL72 systems and is Bitdeer’s largest single capacity addition in Southeast Asia. Located alongside the 21.7MW A201...

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Read Bitdeer Acquires 200 Acres In Milam County, Texas, For AI And HPC Expansion
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 adj...

Bitdeer Acquires 200 Acres In Milam County, Texas, For AI And HPC Expansion

September 05, 2026 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...

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Read Meta’s $1.2B Data Center In Kuna, Idaho, Goes Live
Meta’s Kuna, Idaho Data Center Is Now Operational Meta has begun serving traffic from its data center in Kuna, Idaho. The company announced the campus in 2022, initially planning to invest $800 mil...

Meta’s $1.2B Data Center In Kuna, Idaho, Goes Live

September 04, 2026 Meta

Meta’s Kuna, Idaho Data Center Is Now Operational Meta has begun serving traffic from its data center in Kuna, Idaho. The company announced the campus in 2022, initially planning to invest $800 million in a 960,000 sq ft (89,187 sqm) facility. The project was later temporarily paused for redesign...

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Read Crusoe Partners With Aalo on Nuclear-Powered AI Data Centre Project
Crusoe has partnered with SMR developer Aalo Atomics to deploy what the companies describe as the world's first nuclear-powered AI data centre. The partnership will see a Crusoe Spark modular data ...

Crusoe Partners With Aalo on Nuclear-Powered AI Data Centre Project

July 30, 2026 Crusoe

Crusoe has partnered with SMR developer Aalo Atomics to deploy what the companies describe as the world's first nuclear-powered AI data centre. The partnership will see a Crusoe Spark modular data centre deployed at Idaho National Laboratory in 2027, powered by Aalo’s 50MWe Pod reactor. The...

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Read Crusoe Tied to Proposed Data Center Development in Virginia's Franklin County
A proposed data center project could be coming to Franklin County, Virginia. Local media report that county officials have been in discussions with Crusoe over the potential "Project Flash" develop...

Crusoe Tied to Proposed Data Center Development in Virginia's Franklin County

July 16, 2026 Crusoe

A proposed data center project could be coming to Franklin County, Virginia. Local media report that county officials have been in discussions with Crusoe over the potential "Project Flash" development since November. Few details have been disclosed, but the project is reportedly being considered...

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Read Meta Expands Louisiana Data Center Campus To 5GW
Meta plans to more than double its Richland Parish, Louisiana, data center campus to 5GW of capacity. The site, known as the Hyperion data center project, was previously planned as a 2GW developmen...

Meta Expands Louisiana Data Center Campus To 5GW

July 13, 2026 Meta

Meta plans to more than double its Richland Parish, Louisiana, data center campus to 5GW of capacity. The site, known as the Hyperion data center project, was previously planned as a 2GW development. Announced in late 2024, Hyperion was originally designed as a 4 million sq ft (372,000 sqm)...

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Read Meta Plans $9.17 Billion Gigawatt-Scale Data Center in Alberta, Canada
Meta is planning a 1GW data center in Sturgeon County, Alberta, marking the company’s first facility in Canada. The project represents a CA$13 billion (US$9.17 billion) investment and could scale u...

Meta Plans $9.17 Billion Gigawatt-Scale Data Center in Alberta, Canada

July 09, 2026 Meta

Meta is planning a 1GW data center in Sturgeon County, Alberta, marking the company’s first facility in Canada. The project represents a CA$13 billion (US$9.17 billion) investment and could scale up to 1.8GW of capacity. The AI-focused facility will use a closed-loop liquid cooling system and is...

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Read Meta Veteran Sham Parmar Joins Anthropic Supply Chain Operations
Meta’s Sham Parmar has joined generative AI company Anthropic.
Parmar previously served as senior manager for supply chain and engineering, overseeing electrical, mechanical, and fiber connectivit...

Meta Veteran Sham Parmar Joins Anthropic Supply Chain Operations

June 16, 2026 Meta

Meta’s Sham Parmar has joined generative AI company Anthropic. Parmar previously served as senior manager for supply chain and engineering, overseeing electrical, mechanical, and fiber connectivity systems. "I'm excited to share that I've joined Anthropic as a supply chain lead, power and cooling...

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Read Private Equity Firm Acquires Croatia’s ‘Fort Knox’ Data Center
Gnomon Capital has acquired 100% of Croatian data center DC North, known as the “Fort Knox” facility, in a deal involving former owners Cratis and Muraplast. Court records show the transfer was com...

Private Equity Firm Acquires Croatia’s ‘Fort Knox’ Data Center

June 13, 2026 Meta

Gnomon Capital has acquired 100% of Croatian data center DC North, known as the “Fort Knox” facility, in a deal involving former owners Cratis and Muraplast. Court records show the transfer was completed in late May, with Gnomon now listed as the sole shareholder. DC North was launched by Cratis...

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Read Crusoe Temporarily Stops 1.8GW Data Center Build in Wyoming
Crusoe has paused development of Project Jade, a planned 1.8GW data center campus in Cheyenne, Wyoming that was announced last year and designed to potentially scale up to 10GW. The project was bei...

Crusoe Temporarily Stops 1.8GW Data Center Build in Wyoming

June 10, 2026 Crusoe

Crusoe has paused development of Project Jade, a planned 1.8GW data center campus in Cheyenne, Wyoming that was announced last year and designed to potentially scale up to 10GW. The project was being developed in partnership with Blackstone-backed energy company Tallgrass. Crusoe said it has...

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Read Meta Signs 168MW Data Center Pact at Reliance Gujarat Campus
Meta and Reliance are partnering to develop a 168MW data center in Jamnagar, Gujarat, India. Reliance will build the facility, which Meta will lease to run AI workloads. The project may be expanded...

Meta Signs 168MW Data Center Pact at Reliance Gujarat Campus

June 10, 2026 Meta

Meta and Reliance are partnering to develop a 168MW data center in Jamnagar, Gujarat, India. Reliance will build the facility, which Meta will lease to run AI workloads. The project may be expanded in the future, though no launch timeline has been disclosed. Meta will cover power and water costs,...

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Read Data Center Operators are Hiring Laid-off Meta Platforms Workers
Data Center Operators are Hiring Laid-off Meta Platforms Workers

Data Center Operators are Hiring Laid-off Meta Platforms Workers

May 22, 2026 Meta

Several data center operators have pointed to open roles after Meta Platforms began laying off around 8,000 employees, about 10% of its workforce. The cuts affected staff across all levels, including some in data center roles. On LinkedIn, multiple data center firms expressed support for affected...

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Read Meta Begins Laying off 8,000 Employees, Including Data Center Staff
Meta Begins Laying off 8,000 Employees, Including Data Center Staff

Meta Begins Laying off 8,000 Employees, Including Data Center Staff

May 20, 2026 Meta

Meta has begun laying off 8,000 employees globally as part of a broader restructuring tied to its growing AI and data center investments. The company plans to reduce its workforce by around 10 percent to free up cash flow for expanded data center spending. At the same time, Meta has canceled...

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Read CoreWeave Anchors Phase 1 of eStruxture's 90 MW Calgary CAL-3
CoreWeave Anchors Phase 1 of eStruxture's 90 MW Calgary CAL-3

CoreWeave Anchors Phase 1 of eStruxture's 90 MW Calgary CAL-3

May 17, 2026 eStruxture: CAL-3

eStruxture has signed CoreWeave as the anchor tenant for Phase 1 of CAL-3, its 90 MW AI-ready data center in Rocky View County just outside Calgary, eStruxture announced on May 14. The Tier III facility is the largest data center under construction in Alberta and is targeted for commercial...

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Read Meta Begins Construction on Tulsa Data Center
Meta Begins Construction on Tulsa Data Center

Meta Begins Construction on Tulsa Data Center

April 22, 2026 Meta

Meta has broken ground on its first data center in Oklahoma, beginning construction on a campus in Tulsa. The project is expected to involve around $1 billion in investment, with the company confirming it is behind the 340-acre Project Anthem development, according to News On 6. First proposed in...

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Read Avax One Targets 10MW Behind-the-Meter Data Center in Alberta
Avax One Targets 10MW Behind-the-Meter Data Center in Alberta

Avax One Targets 10MW Behind-the-Meter Data Center in Alberta

April 11, 2026 Alberta

Cryptocurrency firm Avax One Technology has signed a front-end engineering and design (FEED) proposal for a 10MW off-grid, natural gas-powered AI and high-performance computing (HPC) data center at the 4-31 Battery site in Alberta, Canada. The FEED study will be led by BlueFlare Energy Solutions...

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Read Meta Signs Pre-development Agreement for Data Center in Beloit, Wisconsin
Meta Signs Pre-development Agreement for Data Center in Beloit, Wisconsin

Meta Signs Pre-development Agreement for Data Center in Beloit, Wisconsin

March 05, 2026 Meta

Meta Platforms has reportedly signed a pre-development agreement with the Town of Beloit for a potential data center project in southern Wisconsin. According to the Beloit Daily News, the facility could be built on a 430-acre site located between Town Line Road, South Prairie Avenue, and East...

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Read Meta Plans to Deploy 366MW of Modular Gas-fired Units to Support a 1GW Data Center in El Paso, Texas
Meta Plans to Deploy 366MW of Modular Gas-fired Units to Support a 1GW Data Center in El Paso, Texas

Meta Plans to Deploy 366MW of Modular Gas-fired Units to Support a 1GW Data Center in El Paso, Texas

February 23, 2026 Meta

The 1GW project, which broke ground in October, would be powered by 813 modular generators, slated to come online by 2027. The units are expected to cost $473 million. The proposal has also drawn opposition from environmental and community organizations. For instance, the Sembrando Esperanza...

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Read Crusoe Plans Modular Data Center Deployment at Energy Vault’s Snyder, Texas Technology Center
Crusoe Plans Modular Data Center Deployment at Energy Vault’s Snyder, Texas Technology Center

Crusoe Plans Modular Data Center Deployment at Energy Vault’s Snyder, Texas Technology Center

February 12, 2026 Crusoe

US energy storage firm Energy Vault has partnered with AI infrastructure provider Crusoe to deploy modular data centers at Energy Vault’s technology center in Snyder, Texas.“Crusoe is executing against a clear market imperative: customers need scalable compute delivered quickly and reliably,”...

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