Americas Data Center News

OpenLight Secures $34m in Funding

OpenLight, a designer of custom application-specific photonic chips, has secured $34 million in a funding round that was co-led by Xora Innovation and Capricorn Investment Group. Other participants include Mayfield; HPE’s Juniper Networks; Lam Capital, the corporate venture arm of Lam Research...

August 28, 2025

United States

Zenith Obtains Planning Approval for 1.24GW Data Center Project

US energy infrastructure developer Zenith Volts has been granted approval from the Chaves County Commission for a 300-acre data center project designed to support 1.24GW or more of power capacity. The entire site will span 8,500 acres and integrate advanced power solutions, including on-site s...

August 27, 2025

New Mexico

Compass Mining, Onmine Partner to Energize 10MW site in Texas

Bitcoin mining company Compass Mining has announced the full energization of a 10MW cryptomine data center facility in Texas, a project developed in partnership with Onmine, which helped provide crucial infrastructure, and coordinated the site’s development with ERCOT - the Electric Reliabilit...

August 26, 2025

Texas

Top Data Center News from 18th - 22nd August, 2025

Vantage Plots 1.4GW Data Center Campus in TexasVantage Data Centers is expanding in Texas with a new gigawatt-scale campus outside Abilene in Shackelford County, Texas, set to be the largest across its global portfolio and its biggest investment to date, totaling more than $25 billion. AirTrun...

August 25, 2025

United States

Essential Utilities Invests $24m into Planned 944MW Facility

Essential Utilities, a US-based utility company focusing on natural gas and wastewater treatment, has invested $26 million into a data center project in development in Greene County, Pennsylvania.The utility signed an agreement with independent power producer International Electric Power III (...

August 25, 2025

Pennsylvania

US Government Acquires 10% Stake in Intel

The US government has taken a 9.9 percent stake in beleaguered chipmaker and designer Intel, investing $8.9 billion in Intel, with $5.7bn coming from funds that would have been awarded through the CHIPS Act and $3.2bn from funds from the Secure Enclave program. Intel has already received $2.2b...

August 23, 2025

United States

Atmosphere DC Secures Investment from AGC Equity Partners

Atmosphere Data Centers, a new US-based operator this week announced it has secured a “significant strategic growth investment” from AGC Equity Partners, a global institutional investment firm. “This investment represents a major milestone for Atmosphere,” said Chuck McBride, CEO of Atmosphere...

August 22, 2025

United States

Large Data Center Campus Proposed in Lancaster Area of Texas

WHL Dallas 45 LLC has filed to develop a large campus across two adjacent sites in the Lancaster area of Dallas, known as Project Orange and Project Labrador. Combined, the two sites could host 13 facilities across more than 530 acres, totaling more than 2.5 million sq ft (232,258 sqm) and sev...

August 22, 2025

Texas

Golf Course Set to Become Data Center in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania

The Dauphin County General Authority (DCGA) owned golf course was sold for $45.6 million to Harrisburg I, LLC, which intends to use the site for a data center project. Harrisburg I is a purchasing entity under the Texas realtor Provident Realty. According to the county, the proposal was one of...

August 22, 2025

Pennsylvania

Caterpillar, Hunt Energy to Deliver up to 1GW of Power in North America

Caterpillar, one of the world's largest manufacturers of industrial equipment, has partnered with US power infrastructure developer Hunt Energy in a multi-year initiative to deliver upwards of 1GW of generation capacity for data centers in North America. The first project is expected to launc...

August 21, 2025

North America

DartPoints to Expand Data Centers at Four Sites Across US

US operator DartPoints is expanding its data center portfolio across South Carolina, Indiana, and Ohio, announcing the first phase of expansion, following the equity investment from Nova Infrastructure.“Our vision of delivering AI-ready environments in the next ring of US markets is now becomi...

August 21, 2025

United States

Galaxy Digital Closes $1.4bn Debt Facility

Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd. has closed a $1.4 billion project financing facility for the development of its Helios data center campus in Texas which was previously used by Galaxy for cryptomining, before being converted to host AI cloud provider CoreWeave."This financing marks a major milesto...

August 20, 2025

Texas

Opposition Calls to Relocate $1.2bn University of Michigan Data Centers

Two data centers planned by the University of Michigan (U-M) have been asked to relocate following a meeting by local officials. The data centers are part of a $1.2bn project, and are currently planned for 124 acres purchased by U-M off Textile Road in Ypsilanti Township in June 2024.The data ...

August 19, 2025

Michigan

Top Data Center News from 11th-15th of August, 2025

QTS Breaks Ground on Data Center in IowaQTS has officially announced plans for a new data center campus in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, which could support up to seven data center buildings at full build-out and see up to $10 billion invested.DC Blox Secures $1.15bn Green Loan for Atlanta Data CenterUS...

August 18, 2025

United States

Digital Alpha Invests $300m in GPUaaS Massed Compute

GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) provider Massed Compute has received $300 million in investment from Digital Alpha which will be used to expand Massed Compute's AI cloud infrastructure footprint, including the purchase of Nvidia GPUs.“Massed Compute is purpose-built to meet the demands of modern AI-...

August 15, 2025

United States

TeraWulf to Lease New York Site to Fluidstack

Cryptomine and HPC data center firm TeraWulf this week announced two 10-year high-performance computing (HPC) colocation agreements with Fluidstack. TeraWulf will deliver more than 200MW of critical IT load (~250MW of gross capacity) at its Lake Mariner data center campus in New York. The deal...

August 14, 2025

New York

Rogers Sells Data Center Business to InfraRed Capital

Canadian telecoms firm Rogers this week announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Rogers Communications’ data center business, on behalf of InfraRed’s value-add strategy. Rogers said it will continue to sell data center services on behalf of InfraRed and will provide netw...

August 14, 2025

Canada

Goodman Secures Financing from Aareal Bank

Germany’s Aareal Bank is moving into providing financing to data center customers and has entered into its first financing transaction in the data center asset class in July 2025 with Goodman Group."Frankfurt is Europe's largest Internet node, with a data transfer rate of more than 18 terabits...

August 13, 2025

United States

Flagstar Bank Selects Mphasis for Data Center Set Up

Michigan's Flagstar Bank has selected Mphasis for the setup and inauguration of its upcoming data center facility. Flagstar describes it as "world-class," adding that it will support the bank's critical infrastructure and future growth and will enable it to leverage "modern data center capabil...

August 12, 2025

Michigan

Data Center News

OpenLight Secures $34m in Funding

Zenith Obtains Planning Approval for 1.24GW Data Center Project

Compass Mining, Onmine Partner to Energize 10MW site in Texas

Top Data Center News from 18th - 22nd August, 2025

Essential Utilities Invests $24m into Planned 944MW Facility

US Government Acquires 10% Stake in Intel

Atmosphere DC Secures Investment from AGC Equity Partners

Large Data Center Campus Proposed in Lancaster Area of Texas

Golf Course Set to Become Data Center in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania

Caterpillar, Hunt Energy to Deliver up to 1GW of Power in North America

DartPoints to Expand Data Centers at Four Sites Across US

Galaxy Digital Closes $1.4bn Debt Facility

Opposition Calls to Relocate $1.2bn University of Michigan Data Centers

Top Data Center News from 11th-15th of August, 2025

Digital Alpha Invests $300m in GPUaaS Massed Compute

TeraWulf to Lease New York Site to Fluidstack

Rogers Sells Data Center Business to InfraRed Capital

Goodman Secures Financing from Aareal Bank

Flagstar Bank Selects Mphasis for Data Center Set Up

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