October 05, 2026 United States
Virtus Raises £2.45bn to Fund Data Center Expansion European data center operator Virtus Data Centres has secured a £2.45 billion ($3.25bn) financing package from a consortium of 13 banks to support the development and expansion of its data centers across the UK and Europe, including its 78MW...
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October 03, 2026 San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco startup NetworkOcean says it has become the first company to run customer AI workloads from a solar-powered floating data center. The company operated a single Nvidia H100 GPU powered by a 20kW solar array during a trial in San Francisco Bay. The customer was not disclosed....
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October 02, 2026 United States
Micro data center company Zella DC has launched Zella Stack, a new range of stackable, self-contained data center modules designed for Edge deployments. Each module measures 1,300 x 700 x 580mm (51.18 x 27.56 x 22.83in). Zella DC said the rugged, scalable modules combine air and liquid cooling in...
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October 01, 2026 West Texas
Crusoe is the developer behind Google's data center campus under construction in Armstrong County, Texas, the company said on Sept. 28. The site sits outside Amarillo, and it pairs with 531 megawatts of adjacent West Texas wind, a design that puts generation rather than land at the center of the...
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October 01, 2026 Utah
Nuclear startup Valar Atomics is seeking federal approval for Project Beehive, a data center campus on more than 9,000 acres of Bureau of Land Management property near Price, Utah, that would run on 456 small modular reactors built at the site. NPR, which first reported the filing, says the plan...
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September 28, 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...
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September 26, 2026 Switch: Apex Industrial Park
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...
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September 26, 2026 Crusoe: Abilene 1
Crusoe has dropped its $1.25 billion launch order for Boom Supersonic's Superpower gas turbines, ending a plan to power AI campuses with turbines derived from the engine behind its Overture supersonic airliner. Boom founder and CEO Blake Scholl said on Friday that the two Denver companies are no...
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September 26, 2026 United States
The U.S. Department of Energy said on September 24 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. Recipients will put up $3.35 billion more, bringing the...
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September 25, 2026 Virginia
Prince William County in Northern Virginia is reducing “by-right” zoning for data center projects amid growing public opposition to AI infrastructure. County supervisors voted to shrink the Prince William data center opportunity zone overlay district, where qualifying data centers can currently...
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September 25, 2026 United States
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $1.9 billion in funding for 31 grid improvement projects across 26 states, aimed at accelerating power connections for data centers and other large loads. The projects are part of the DOE’s SPARK initiative and will receive $5.25 billion in total,...
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September 24, 2026 United States
Houston-based Woodway Energy Infrastructure plans to build a 22-mile (35.4km), 30-inch natural gas pipeline to supply an undisclosed US data center behind the meter. The pipeline is expected to enter service in the first half of 2028, pending regulatory approvals. Woodway will own and operate the...
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September 23, 2026 United States
Zeo Energy and Ewyze will develop off-grid power and data center infrastructure across the US. Their model combines solar, battery storage, and dispatchable power such as natural gas or geothermal to create dedicated microgrids. The companies say this could bring data center capacity online in...
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September 22, 2026 United States
Dutch nanoimprint lithography startup Morphotonics has raised more than €40 million ($46 million) in a Series B funding round. Existing investors 3M Ventures, Innovation Industries, and BOM participated alongside new backers including Invest-NL, the European Innovation Council Fund, Ernij Next,...
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September 21, 2026 United States
Aligned Begins Construction On Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Campus In Pennsylvania Aligned Data Centers has broken ground on Project Phoenix, a new 2GW data center campus in Shippingport, Pennsylvania. Comprising three facilities, this investment establishes a powerful new economic hub for Western...
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September 18, 2026 Virginia
Virginia’s Loudoun County has approved a 12-month moratorium on new data center applications, effective immediately. The Board of Supervisors voted 7-1 for the pause, with Supervisor Kristen Umstattd voting against and Caleb Kershner abstaining. The motion was introduced by Algonkian District...
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September 15, 2026 United States
Data center on-site power developer AVK has launched AVK Capital, a new entity that will fund, own, and operate on-site power infrastructure for customers. The unit is backed by AVK’s recent investment from Partners Group, which acquired a majority stake and plans to invest more than $1 billion...
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September 15, 2026 Canada
Bell plans to expand its Saskatchewan AI data center campus by up to 900MW, with potential to reach 1.2GW. The project could attract more than $50 billion in total investment and will use natural gas power generation and closed-loop cooling that does not require municipal water. Development will...
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September 14, 2026 United States
Microsoft Plans 38GW Of Data Center Capacity By 2032 Microsoft has revealed its plans to more than triple its data center capacity over the next five years, targeting 38GW by 2032, up from its current 12GW with spending continuing to rise, from $55.7 billion in 2024 to $115.9 billion and $145.3...
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September 11, 2026 Oregon
Oregon Governor Tina Kotek has ordered state agencies to pause land transactions for new data center projects. The freeze covers unapproved easements, leases, land-use permits, property sales, and other state land agreements for data centers. It will remain in place through July 1, 2027, unless...
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