October 20, 2025 Canada
The Government of British Columbia in Canada will limit the state’s data center energy usage and ban new cryptomining projects. The government stated that it would introduce legislation and regulations to “address unprecedented demand for electricity and ensure that BC and Canadian economic...
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October 20, 2025 United States
Real estate investment firm BentallGreenOak (BGO) this week announced the successful close of its data center co-investment fundraise, totaling approximately $260m, which was established in connection with its US Industrial Strategies I fund.BGO said it is now in the advanced stages of securing...
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October 18, 2025 Texas
Social media giant Meta this week announced work had started on the 1GW site, the company’s 29th data center. Some $1.5 billion is set to be invested in the first phase of development. The site has been designed to support “both the traditional servers of today and future generations of...
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October 18, 2025 United States
QumulusAI has secured a $500 million blockchain-backed facility to fund its AI compute infrastructure buildout. The debt funding will enable QumulusAI to borrow stablecoins against up to 70 percent of its approved GPU deployments, enabling faster access to capital. "This partnership represents a...
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October 17, 2025 United States
US quantum computing firm IonQ has announced plans to raise $2 billion through an equity offering. The company will sell 16.5 million shares at $93 each to an entity managed by investor Heights Capital Management.“This investment provides an opportunity for the IonQ team to continue to grow and...
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October 17, 2025 United States
US fuel cell developer Bloom Energy has signed a $5 billion AI infrastructure partnership with global investment firm Brookfield, which will see an investment of up to $5bn to support the deployment of Bloom’s Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) technology in AI data centers worldwide.KR Sridhar,...
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October 16, 2025 Ohio
US power marketer Gridmatic has expanded into Ohio, with the launch of its Gridmatic Retail product in the state which will offer both standard and advanced energy contracts to a range of commercial and individual customers, including data centers and other consumers with flexible loads.“We’re...
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October 14, 2025 Virginia
Real estate firm Penzance announced it has secured construction financing and broken ground on Chantilly Premier, a 100 percent leased powered shell located in Fairfax County, Northern Virginia."Penzance is excited to break ground on this project, which will deliver critical digital...
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October 13, 2025 United States
QTS Starts Preparation for $13bn UK data center QTS has begun site work on a massive data center project in Northumberland, UK, which could see an investment of up to £10 billion ($13.2bn) across 10 facilities if fully built out, after initially being pitched as a 1.1GW projectGoogle to Invest...
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October 13, 2025 United States
Nvidia has announced more than a dozen partners as it looks to prepare the data center industry for 800-volt DC power architectures and rack densities of 1MW. The GPU giant this week said it would unveil specs of the Vera Rubin NVL144 MGX-generation open architecture rack servers.“Moving to...
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October 11, 2025 Arizona
Intel has announced that its new chip fabrication plant, Fab 52, in Chandler, Arizona, is fully operational, and that the facility will mass-produce the company’s upcoming mobile processors, Intel Core Ultra series 3, and Intel Xeon 6+ data center processors, codenamed Panther Lake and Clearwater...
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October 08, 2025 United States
Johnson Controls has announced a “multi-million-dollar” strategic investment in two-phase direct-to-chip liquid cooling firm, Accelsius.“With the sharp growth in AI, cooling innovation has become a front-line imperative to meet the increasing demands of high-density data centers,” said Austin...
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October 06, 2025 United States
Centersquare Acquires 10 Data Centers in North America US operator Centersquare this week announced the acquisition of 10 data centers across the United States and Canada, reflecting the growing strength and momentum of the company.X8 Cloud Plans AI Data Center in Paraguay Los Angeles-based...
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October 04, 2025 United States
Enterprise software investment firm Thoma Bravoo this week announced a strategic minority investment in SDC Capital Partners, a digital infrastructure investment firm. Terms of the deal weren’t shared."Thoma Bravo is one of the world's most admired investment firms and shares our view on the...
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October 04, 2025 North America
US operator Centersquare this week announced the acquisition of 10 data centers across the United States and Canada. Acquired sites include two data centers in Boston and Minneapolis that the company had been operating under long-term lease agreements, along with eight additional colocation...
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October 04, 2025 Brazil / Brasil
Brazilian operator Elea Data Centers is to build a data center for oil and gas firm Petrobras. It is reportedly the largest information technology infrastructure initiative ever contracted by a Latin American company. The project includes the implementation of a high-capacity data center, set to...
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October 03, 2025 Paraguay
Los Angeles-based startup X8 Cloud Infrastructure has announced plans to build an artificial intelligence and cloud services data center complex in Paraguay, leveraging hydroelectric power. They signed an agreement with Paraguay's National Electricity Administration (Ande), represented by Felix...
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October 02, 2025 United States
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has launched a Request for Proposal (RFP) from companies seeking to build and power AI data centers at DOE’s Oak Ridge Reservation in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.Two sites at the reservation are available for consideration, one at the East Tennessee Technology Park and...
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October 02, 2025 United States
Wafer-scale chip designer Cerebras Systems has raised $1.1 billion in an oversubscribed Series G funding round, at an $8.1bn valuation. The company said it would use the funds to expand its technology portfolio, including AI processor design, packaging, system design, and AI supercomputers. "From...
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October 01, 2025 North America
Avangrid, the North American arm of Spanish electrical utility Iberdrola, has announced a $18.5 billion investment plan into electric and gas network infrastructure within the US by 2028. The investment will focus on rebuilding and replacing aging infrastructure in electric and gas utilities,...
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