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Read Meta Unveils Plans for a 1GW Data Center Campus in Indiana
Meta Unveils Plans for a 1GW Data Center Campus in Indiana

Meta Unveils Plans for a 1GW Data Center Campus in Indiana

February 11, 2026 Meta

Meta is building a gigawatt-scale data center campus near Indianapolis, Indiana. “This facility represents an investment of over $10 billion in data center infrastructure and the surrounding community, one of our largest infrastructure investments to date,” the company said.“The data center will...

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Read Crusoe to Deploy in Starcloud Satellite Data Center
Crusoe to Deploy in Starcloud Satellite Data Center

Crusoe to Deploy in Starcloud Satellite Data Center

October 22, 2025 Crusoe

Neocloud Crusoe is going to space and has revealed plans to deploy on a Starcloud satellite scheduled to launch in late 2026, and offer limited GPU capacity from space by early 2027. This comes ahead of the expected launch of the Starcloud-1 satellite this November. About the size of a small...

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Read Crusoe's Abilene Data Center Campus id Officially Live
Crusoe's Abilene Data Center Campus id Officially Live

Crusoe's Abilene Data Center Campus id Officially Live

September 30, 2025 Crusoe

Stargate's flagship data center campus in Abilene, Texas, is now live. The first two buildings on the planned 1.2GW site are now operational and being used by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) for OpenAI. The two buildings span 980,000 square feet and support 200MW+ of IT.“One of the defining...

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Read Hut 8 Announces Four Data Center Projects across US
Hut 8 Announces Four Data Center Projects across US

Hut 8 Announces Four Data Center Projects across US

August 28, 2025 Hut 8 Corp

HPC and cryptomine data center developer Hut 8 this week announced plans to develop four new sites across the United States, totaling 1.53GW of capacity under development. The expansion sites range in scale from 50MW to 1GW of utility capacity across Louisiana, Texas, and Illinois. Hut 8 said it...

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Read Hut 8 Awarded Five-Year Capacity Contract for 310MW of Natural Gas Power in Ontario
Hut 8 Awarded Five-Year Capacity Contract for 310MW of Natural Gas Power in Ontario

Hut 8 Awarded Five-Year Capacity Contract for 310MW of Natural Gas Power in Ontario

July 03, 2025 Hut 8 Corp

Cryptomining and HPC firm Hut 8 has been awarded a five-year capacity contract with the Ontario Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) for 310MW of natural gas generation assets. The portfolio is owned and operated by Far North Power Corp, a partnership between Hut 8 and Macquarie...

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Read Hut 8 Launches Cryptomine Data Center in Texas
Hut 8 Launches Cryptomine Data Center in Texas

Hut 8 Launches Cryptomine Data Center in Texas

July 02, 2025 Hut 8 Corp

Cryptomining and HPC data center firm Hut 8 Corp. has launched a Bitcoin mining data center in Texas which spans 162,000 sq ft (15,050 sqm) and will offer 205MW of capacity at full energization. Vega features a proprietary, rack-based, direct-to-chip liquid cooling system designed in-house by Hut...

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Read Crusoe to Lease Polar Facility in Norway for AI Cloud
Crusoe to Lease Polar Facility in Norway for AI Cloud

Crusoe to Lease Polar Facility in Norway for AI Cloud

June 16, 2025 Crusoe

Data center and AI cloud firm Crusoe has announced a strategic partnership with Polar to establish its first data center in mainland Europe. Crusoe has signed a contract for a 12MW facility located in Norway, which will host Crusoe Cloud, the company’s GPU cloud services.“Partnering with Polar...

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Read Crusoe partners with Vast Data
Crusoe partners with Vast Data

Crusoe partners with Vast Data

October 03, 2024 Crusoe

Crusoe Energy Systems is collaborating with Vast Data to develop "Shared Disks," a petabyte-scale file system capable of reads up to 200Mbps per TiB per node with hundreds of GPps in aggregate read and write bandwidth per cluster.The Shared Disks also offer a 99.5 percent SLA that is offered by...

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Read Crusoe announces first European project
Crusoe announces first European project

Crusoe announces first European project

December 16, 2023 Crusoe

Crusoe Energy Systems LLC has announced a collaboration with atNorth, a Nordic colocation, computing and AI service provider, to colocate Crusoe Cloud GPUs in atNorth's ICE02 data center in Iceland, marking Crusoe’s first project in Europe. Cully Cavness, Crusoe's co-founder and president, said,...

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Read Crusoe Energy gets $200m loan to purchase Nvidia GPUs
Crusoe Energy gets $200m loan to purchase Nvidia GPUs

Crusoe Energy gets $200m loan to purchase Nvidia GPUs

October 26, 2023 Crusoe

Crusoe Energy,responsible for powering AI and crypto workloads from waste gas burnt at oil wells, is to borrow $200m from investment firm Upper90, to buy H100 TensorCore GPUs, the latest Nvidia GPU which launched in April and some of the previous version. Crusoe notes the new GPUs will come...

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Read University of Minnesota permits $40 million data center property sale to Meta
University of Minnesota permits $40 million data center property sale to Meta

University of Minnesota permits $40 million data center property sale to Meta

September 08, 2023 Meta

The University of Minnesota (UoM) Board of Regents has authorized the $39.7 million land sale to Meta. The 280-acre tract of land in UMore Park has been sold to Jimnist LLC, a subsidiary of Meta, for a data center. The land that comprises UMore Park is located in Rosemount and is bordered by...

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Read Meta confirms $700m Minnesota data center venture
Meta confirms $700m Minnesota data center venture

Meta confirms $700m Minnesota data center venture

September 05, 2023 Meta

Social network Meta is supporting a new Minneapolis data center project. Late last week, a Minnesota Public Utilities Commission document confirmed Meta's $700 million Minneapolis data center project. Xcel Energy announced an 'enterprise data center' project with a Fortune 100 company in November...

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Read Crusoe plans to install gas flare data centers in Utah
Crusoe plans to install gas flare data centers in Utah

Crusoe plans to install gas flare data centers in Utah

September 01, 2023 Crusoe

Crusoe Energy will install data center modules at Utah oil wells and power the facilities with excess natural gas. This week, Crusoe Energy Systems and XCL Resources announced a new agreement to deploy Crusoe's Digital Flare Mitigation (DFM) technology at XCL sites in Utah's Uinta Basin. Large...

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Read Costs projected to rise as meta capex for data centers, servers, and networks reaches $6.4 billion
Costs projected to rise as meta capex for data centers, servers, and networks reaches $6.4 billion

Costs projected to rise as meta capex for data centers, servers, and networks reaches $6.4 billion

July 28, 2023 Meta

In the last quarter, Meta's capital expenditures reached $6.4 billion due to investments in data centers, servers, and network infrastructure. This is a decrease from the $7.1 billion the company spent in the previous quarter, but the Facebook proprietor is now done with a data center...

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Read Meta shares details on AI progress and data center redesign
Meta shares details on AI progress and data center redesign

Meta shares details on AI progress and data center redesign

May 25, 2023 Meta

After announcing that it was canceling or pausing data center projects that were in mid-development last year, Meta has finally revealed some details on its AI-optimized data centers. The giant has shared that it is working on a custom chip "family" to bolster the efficiency of its data centers,...

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Read rPlus Energies signs 200MW PPA with Idaho Power, supporting Meta
rPlus Energies signs 200MW PPA with Idaho Power, supporting Meta

rPlus Energies signs 200MW PPA with Idaho Power, supporting Meta

May 24, 2023 Meta

rPlus Energies has announced that it has signed a 200MW power purchase agreement (PPA) with Idaho Power, which has a special energy services agreement with Meta; output from the project will go into the same grid supporting Meta's new Kuna data center. The Ada County, Idaho solar farm, known as...

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Read Water requirements for Meta’s Toledo town data center released
Water requirements for Meta’s Toledo town data center released

Water requirements for Meta’s Toledo town data center released

May 18, 2023 Meta

Details regarding Meta's water consumption at a planned data center in Toledo have been released, revealing that yearly the facility will guzzle an estimated 660 million gallons of water. The facility was given the green light by Castilla-La Mancha back in March as a PSI, due to the economic...

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Read The circular economy in action at Meta's Gallatin data center through new mushroom project
The circular economy in action at Meta's Gallatin data center through new mushroom project

The circular economy in action at Meta's Gallatin data center through new mushroom project

April 27, 2023 Meta

In an effort to curb construction waste, Meta has announced a new project that is using mushrooms to help mitigate some of the 660 million tons of waste sent to landfills and incinerators each year. The giant has been working with Mycocycle, a tech company in the zero-waste market, to pilot the...

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Read Meta Redesigned its Data Center After Abandoning AI Chip Rollout And Switching to Nvidia GPUs
Meta Redesigned its Data Center After Abandoning AI Chip Rollout And Switching to Nvidia GPUs

Meta Redesigned its Data Center After Abandoning AI Chip Rollout And Switching to Nvidia GPUs

April 26, 2023 Meta

Reuters reports that Meta abandoned plans to release its own artificial intelligence processor and instead adopted Nvidia GPUs. Initial use of CPUs for AI training and chips for inference caused the company to fall behind in AI development. The switch to GPUs necessitated the redesign of its data...

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Read Meta signs PPA in Texas
Meta signs PPA in Texas

Meta signs PPA in Texas

March 23, 2023 Meta

Meta has announced that it has signed a new PPA for solar energy. The PPA, with Avangrid, will see the giant source 240MW of energy from the True North solar farm which is currently under development in Falls County, Texas, the former's first in the state. The solar farm is set to launch in early...

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