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Azio AI has Delivered a 5MW Modular Data Center to Envirotech Vehicles in Texas

Azio AI is set to deliver 5MW of modular data center capacity to a site in South Texas. The modules will be supplied to Envirotech Vehicles for its campus, which will run on behind-the-meter natural gas power. The companies previously announced a non-binding LOI in January for a $480 million m...

May 14, 2026

Texas

Developer Abandons 160-Acre Prince William County Data Center Project

Developer Highland Properties Manassas LLC has withdrawn its proposal to develop Quantico Ridge, a roughly 160-acre data center project in Prince William County, Virginia. The company also pulled its application to rezone land parcels at 14854 and 14900 Dumfries Road for industrial use. The pr...

May 13, 2026

Virginia

DataBank Plans to Install a 3.1MW Rooftop Solar Array at its HOU3 Data Center in Houston

U.S. data center operator DataBank has revealed plans to install a 3.1MW rooftop solar array at its HOU3 facility in Houston, Texas. Once completed, the installation is expected to become the largest rooftop solar project in the Houston metropolitan area, producing around 4.5 million kilowatt-...

May 13, 2026

Texas

Developer Pulls Proposed Data Center Project in Pekin, Illinois

Developer Western Hospitality Partners (WHP) has officially withdrawn its proposal to develop a data center in Pekin, Illinois, roughly two months after Mayor Mary Burress announced publicly that the city would not proceed with the project. “This letter shall serve as purchaser’s notice to ter...

May 13, 2026

Illinois

Concerns Grow Over Proposed 300-acre Land Sale for Data Center Project in Hillsboro

Residents in Hillsboro gathered in large numbers at a public meeting to raise concerns about a proposed data center that could be developed in the city. The project may be built on a 300-acre property currently owned by the Hillsboro Economic Development Corporation. Real estate company Provid...

May 11, 2026

Texas

A Utility in Ypsilanti has Placed a One-year Freeze on Providing Electricity to New Data Centers

The primary utility serving Ypsilanti has approved a one-year moratorium on providing water and sewage services to new data center developments. The decision was backed by both the Ypsilanti City Council and the Charter Township Board of Trustees, which voted in favor on March 3 and April 15, ...

May 11, 2026

Michigan

Florida Passed a Data Center Law on Rates, Water, and Zoning

Ron DeSantis has signed a new law in Florida regulating how large data centers are built, powered, and financed. The law, SB 484, prevents utilities from shifting data center infrastructure costs onto residential and small-business customers, requires large users to pay their full service cost...

May 11, 2026

Florida

Two Data Centers with 5MW Combined Capacity Planned in Nepal

A pair of data centers with a combined capacity of 5MW is planned for development in Nepal. Local operator Bichuten Data Vault announced that the facilities will also represent Nepal’s first Tier IV hyperscale data center. The two planned facilities will be located in Kathmandu, Nepal’s capita...

May 09, 2026

United States

Developers Submit Plans for $1.6 Billion Data Center in Cleveland, Ohio

Private credit firm Lakeland Equity Group has filed plans for a $1.6 billion data center project in Cleveland, Ohio. The proposal outlines a 150MW campus on a 35-acre site at 3560 E 55th St, currently owned by trucking company Morabito Enterprises. The development could include three two-story...

May 08, 2026

Ohio

706-Acre Data Center Development Approved Near San Antonio, Texas

A 706-acre data center project has been approved for development outside San Antonio, Texas. CloudBurst received approval from the Guadalupe Commissioners Court on April 21, following the authorization of a $500 million tax abatement and a development agreement for the project. The company pla...

May 07, 2026

Texas

Anthropic to Tap Entire Colossus 1 AI Compute Cluster

Anthropic plans to use the full compute capacity of xAI’s Colossus 1 data center as part of a partnership with SpaceX, the company’s owner. The agreement gives Anthropic access to more than 300MW of capacity and over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs within the month. The generative AI company said the addi...

May 06, 2026

United States

500-Acre Texas Data Center Project Eyed by PowerHouse

A 500-acre data center campus could be developed near Austin, Texas. Data center developer PowerHouse Data Centers is planning a facility in Caldwell County, located between Austin and San Antonio. While details remain limited, the company is understood to be targeting the Caldwell Valley Tech...

May 06, 2026

Texas

Fleet Data Centers Raises $4.6bn for Nevada Data Center Campus

Fleet Data Centers has closed $4.6 billion in senior secured notes to fund a 230MW data center campus in Storey County, Nevada. The hyperscale facility is reportedly fully leased to an unnamed AA-rated, investment-grade tenant with a market capitalization exceeding $3 trillion, under a 197-mon...

May 05, 2026

United States

Centra Completes Structural Topping out of Reno Data Center

US data center firm Centra has topped out a new facility in Reno, Nevada. "We've officially topped out RNO2, our second Reno facility and the region's first carrier-neutral interconnection data center,” the company said on LinkedIn. “This moment represents our significant progress toward deliv...

May 04, 2026

Reno

AMD Expands Texas Data Center Lease With Riot by 25MW

Cryptomining firm-turned HPC data center provider Riot Platforms has signed an expanded agreement with chip designer AMD. As part of its Q1 2026 earnings report, Riot said AMD has exercised its option to lease an additional 25MW of capacity, bringing its total contracted footprint with the com...

May 01, 2026

Texas

Columbus Data Center Acquired by Occupier

Real estate firm Five 9s Digital has sold a data center in Columbus, Ohio, with colocation provider Expedient understood to be the buyer. “Five 9s Digital announced the successful sale of a 6MW single-tenant data center in Columbus, Ohio, to its long-term tenant,” the company said this week. ...

April 30, 2026

Ohio

Bell Canada Plans AI Data Center at Former Winnipeg Food Plant

Work is underway to convert a former protein-processing plant in Winnipeg, Canada, into an AI data center for Bell Canada. According to CBC, the facility will form part of Bell’s “AI Fabric” network, under which the company is developing multiple data centers across the country.The data center...

April 29, 2026

Canada

New Gas Plant Construction Costs Jump 66% Amid Data Center Demand

Rising demand from data centers for natural gas power is driving up the cost of new combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plants, according to a report from BloombergNEF. The report found that costs have climbed from less than $1,500 per kilowatt of capacity in 2023 to $2,157 in 2025—a 66% increas...

April 29, 2026

United States

I Squared Capital Buys Brazil-Based Elea

Investment firm I Squared Capital has acquired a majority stake in Brazilian data center operator Elea. Announced this week, financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Elea operates nine data center campuses across Brazil, including in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Brasília. The company ...

April 28, 2026

Brazil / Brasil

Top Data Center News for 20th-25th April, 2026

Meta Begins Construction on Tulsa Data CenterMeta has broken ground on its first data center in Oklahoma, beginning construction on a 340 acre campus in Tulsa dubbed Project Anthem, expected to involve around $1 billion in investment.Google Starts Work on New Data Center in AustriaGoogle has b...

April 27, 2026

United States

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