October 16, 2026 Kentucky
The Mason County Fiscal Court voted unanimously on Oct. 13 to approve three agreements that clear the way for Meta to build a hyperscale data center campus on nearly 3,000 acres near Maysville in northeastern Kentucky. The approvals, set out in the county's news release, cover a 40-year...
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October 16, 2026 Indiana
Digital Realty is proposing a three-building data center campus on about 476 acres at Industrial Park North in Kokomo, Indiana, with a site plan that calls for roughly 1GW of IT capacity and completion in 2033. The company published the details on its Kokomo project page, and Kokomo Mayor Tyler...
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October 16, 2026 Iowa
LightEdge plans to develop a colocation data center on ten acres in Boone Business Park, Iowa, about 48 miles northwest of Des Moines. The Boone County Economic Growth Corporation has signed a letter of intent for the land sale. The city’s planning commission has approved the site plan for...
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October 16, 2026 United States
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink warned that a nationwide US data center construction moratorium could trigger a recession, given the economy’s growing reliance on AI infrastructure investment. JLL estimates data center development will require $3 trillion in investment by 2030. Global occupancy stands...
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October 15, 2026 Cheyenne
American Electric Power will invest about $4 billion in a 702 MW fuel cell generation project near Cheyenne, Wyoming, under a 20-year power purchase agreement with Google, the utility announced. The plant is being developed through Cheyenne Fuel Cell, LLC, and is targeted to reach full operation...
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October 15, 2026 Austin
Taylor City Council voted 5-0 on Oct. 8 to approve a development agreement with Big Watt Digital and PowerHouse Data Centers for the Taylor Technology Campus, a 664-acre hyperscale project immediately east of the city that could reach one gigawatt of capacity. The joint venture announced the...
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October 15, 2026 Austin
Taylor City Council voted 5-0 on Oct. 8 to approve a development agreement with Big Watt Digital and PowerHouse Data Centers for Taylor Technology Campus, a 664-acre data center and power project east of the city that could reach one gigawatt of capacity. In a joint press release, the partners...
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October 15, 2026 Virginia
State Sen. Russet Perry on Tuesday released draft legislation that would halt approvals for new data centers across Virginia for three years, escalating the political fight over the industry's growth in the world's largest data center market. Senate Bill 843 would take effect July 1, 2027 and...
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October 15, 2026 Austin
Taylor City Council voted 5-0 on Oct. 8 to annex and approve a development agreement for Taylor Technology Campus, a 664-acre hyperscale project east of Taylor that Big Watt Digital and PowerHouse Data Centers say could support up to one gigawatt. The partners announced the approval in a Business...
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October 15, 2026 Virginia
Virginia could introduce a three-year data center moratorium under Senate Bill 843, proposed by Democratic Senator Russet Perry, who represents Loudoun County. If passed, the bill would prevent state agencies from approving data center planning applications for three years from July 1, 2027....
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October 14, 2026 Memphis
Memphis City Council has delayed a vote on a proposed 12-month data center moratorium for a second time, despite protests from more than 100 residents. The pause, proposed by councilor JB Smiley Jr., would allow officials to assess data centers’ social, health, and environmental impacts....
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October 14, 2026 Oregon
Oregon Governor Tina Kotek has directed the state Department of Environmental Quality to stop processing and issuing air and water pollution permits for new or expanded data centers until July 1, 2027. The order came in an Oct. 9 letter to DEQ Director Leah Feldon, which the governor's office did...
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October 14, 2026 Fermi America: HyperGrid Campus
Fermi America on Tuesday announced a credit support agreement with chipmaker AMD backing the first phase of its Project Matador energy and AI campus in Carson County, Texas, a 222 MW build the company described as a key milestone toward securing project financing. The deal The agreement supports...
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October 14, 2026 Pennsylvania
South Korean electrical equipment maker LS Electric has secured a 185.3 billion won ($138.5m) order from Bloom Energy to supply switchgear and distribution transformers for fuel cells at a Pennsylvania data center. Deliveries of the 38kV equipment are expected between April and July next year....
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October 14, 2026 Alabama
Data center and energy infrastructure developer Digi Power X has secured a $200 million debt financing commitment, syndicated by Goldman Sachs and provided by an unnamed major lender. The funding will support its 40MW data center in Columbiana, Alabama, which is being built in two phases: 15MW by...
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October 13, 2026 Texas
Texas now has more data center capacity operating and under construction than Virginia. Baxtel tracks 28.3 GW built or building in Texas, against 17.8 GW in Virginia. On capacity already online, Virginia still leads, 12.3 GW to 11.1 GW. If projects scheduled for this year deliver on time, Texas...
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October 13, 2026 Memphis
Memphis city councilors voted 7-5 on Oct. 6 to postpone a decision on a 12-month moratorium on new data centers, the second delay for a measure that would freeze approvals across a market now tied to Elon Musk's AI buildout. The council moved the vote to Oct. 20 after a packed meeting that police...
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October 13, 2026 United States
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved a registry of large electricity users, including data centers, in an Oct. 9 order in Docket ER26-3515, but rejected PJM Interconnection's plan to curtail those customers ahead of other demand response when the grid is stressed. The order keeps...
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October 12, 2026 Serverfarm: Clarksville, Arkansas ARK1
Serverfarm has topped out the first building at its $6.6 billion data center campus in Clarksville, Arkansas, placing the final structural beam on a 300,000 sq ft facility set to deliver 108MW of capacity. Chief executive Avner Papouchado announced the milestone on LinkedIn, with the Wednesday...
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October 12, 2026 Milwaukee
Microsoft has cut the number of buildings planned for the 791-acre Durand Avenue portion of its Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, data center campus to seven from nine, reducing the parcel's projected taxable value by about 24 percent, or nearly $1.9 billion, the Milwaukee Business Journal reported on...
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