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Read Ameresco Partners with CyrusOne to Develop Offgrid AI Data Center
Ameresco Partners with CyrusOne to Develop Offgrid AI Data Center

Ameresco Partners with CyrusOne to Develop Offgrid AI Data Center

September 10, 2025 California

US energy solutions provider Ameresco has partnered with the US Navy and data center developer CyrusOne to develop a 100MW data center at Naval Air Station (NAS) Lemoore, California. The facility will be colocated with a dedicated on-site energy generation facility built by Ameresco, forming a...

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Read Compass Mining Energizes 7.5MW Site in Minnesota
Compass Mining Energizes 7.5MW Site in Minnesota

Compass Mining Energizes 7.5MW Site in Minnesota

September 10, 2025 Minnesota

Bitcoin mining and infrastructure services provider Compass Mining has energized a new 7.5MW site in Minnesota named Minnesota 2. It will be Compass's second facility in Minnesota, and the 23rd facility run by the company across the US and Canada.Compass Mining will be responsible for operating...

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Read Top Data Center News for 1st- 6th September, 2025
Top Data Center News for 1st- 6th September, 2025

Top Data Center News for 1st- 6th September, 2025

September 08, 2025 United States

SAP to Spend €20bn on European Sovereign Cloud German software company SAP is planning to invest more than €20 billion ($23.3bn) in expanding its sovereign cloud offering in Europe, launching various platforms for customers to deploy in their data centers. OData Secures $1.02bn in Green Financing...

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Read Nvidia Developing Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Reference Design
Nvidia Developing Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Reference Design

Nvidia Developing Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Reference Design

September 08, 2025 United States

Nvidia this week announced it was developing data center reference designs to be shared with partners and enterprises worldwide, known as the AI Factory Giga-Scale Reference Designs.Earlier this year, Nvidia introduced an Omniverse Blueprint for AI factory digital twins, allowing customers to...

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Read Hitachi Energy to Invest $1bn into US Grid Infrastructure
Hitachi Energy to Invest $1bn into US Grid Infrastructure

Hitachi Energy to Invest $1bn into US Grid Infrastructure

September 06, 2025 United States

Hitachi Energy has announced a $1 billion investment to scale up its grid infrastructure manufacturing footprint in the US, addressing the power demand from the AI data center sector. Nearly half of the investment, $475 million, is earmarked for the construction of a new power transformer...

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Read Starlink Expands Ground Infrastructure in Chile
Starlink Expands Ground Infrastructure in Chile

Starlink Expands Ground Infrastructure in Chile

September 05, 2025 Chile

Chile’s undersecretariat of telecommunications (Subtel) this week authorized a request submitted by Starlink to roll out six ground stations across the country. Five of them will be located in the Metropolitan Region - in the municipalities of San Bernardo, Pudahuel, Las Condes, and Quilicura....

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Read Rackspace Appoints Gajen Kandiah as CEO
Rackspace Appoints Gajen Kandiah as CEO

Rackspace Appoints Gajen Kandiah as CEO

September 04, 2025 United States

Rackspace Technology appointed Gajen Kandiah as its new CEO to drive its cloud AI ambitions in the sector, after joining the hybrid cloud provider from Hitachi Digital, where he served for more than five years across various divisions, most notably as COO and executive chairman."I am honored to...

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Read Dominion Proposes New Rate Class for Data Centers
Dominion Proposes New Rate Class for Data Centers

Dominion Proposes New Rate Class for Data Centers

September 04, 2025 Virginia

Virginia’s primary electrical utility, Dominion Energy, has proposed the creation of a new rate class for data centers.The new class would apply to utility customers who consume more than 25MW of energy and have a monthly load factor of more than 75 percent. This will result in many, if not most,...

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Read North Dakota State University Awarded $3.85m for Supercomputer
North Dakota State University Awarded $3.85m for Supercomputer

North Dakota State University Awarded $3.85m for Supercomputer

September 03, 2025 North Dakota

North Dakota State University (NDSU) has been awarded $3.85 million to acquire and deploy an AI supercomputer named Bison, which will be housed in the university’s Center for Computationally Assisted Science and Technology (CCAST) data center and is expected to come online in the summer of...

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Read Former Air Force Data Center up for Sale in Michigan
Former Air Force Data Center up for Sale in Michigan

Former Air Force Data Center up for Sale in Michigan

September 03, 2025 Michigan

A former US Air Force data center, used as a call center until recently, is up for sale in Michigan. Sitting on 3.6 acres in Iosco County’s Wurtsmith Industrial District, the single-story facility spans 13,100 sq ft (1,215 sqm).It was originally a data center supporting Wurtsmith Air Force Base...

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Read Top Data Center News for 25th - 30th August, 2025
Top Data Center News for 25th - 30th August, 2025

Top Data Center News for 25th - 30th August, 2025

September 01, 2025 United States

Google to Invest $9bn in Virginia Data Centers Google announced this week that it will invest an additional $9 billion in Virginia through the end of 2026, which will go towards the development of a new data center in Chesterfield County and the expansion of the existing facilities in Loudoun and...

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Read Rezoning Requests Approved for Data Center in Ohio
Rezoning Requests Approved for Data Center in Ohio

Rezoning Requests Approved for Data Center in Ohio

September 01, 2025 Ohio

Rezoning requests for a data center outside Toledo, Ohio, have been approved. The land parcels are located in Oregon, a city in Lucas County east of Toledo. The Oregon City Council unanimously approved requests for seven land parcels totaling 20 acres to be rezoned from ‘Agricultural District’ to...

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Read Stack Joins Multi-Billion-Dollar Data Center Project in New Mexico
Stack Joins Multi-Billion-Dollar Data Center Project in New Mexico

Stack Joins Multi-Billion-Dollar Data Center Project in New Mexico

August 30, 2025 New Mexico

Stack this week announced its role in Project Jupiter, a proposed large data center campus in Doña Ana County. Stack is collaborating with BorderPlex Digital Assets, with the two companies aiming to invest up to $165 billion over the entire project. Stack hasn’t detailed its exact role in the...

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Read Data Journey Ends Deal with Greenidge to Acquire 152-acre Data Center
Data Journey Ends Deal with Greenidge to Acquire 152-acre Data Center

Data Journey Ends Deal with Greenidge to Acquire 152-acre Data Center

August 30, 2025 United States

US cryptocurrency data center and power generation firm Greenidge Generation has seen a deal to sell off two parcels of land to Data Journey in South Carolina fall through.As part of the initial agreement, Greenidge was set to support Data Journey in developing and building a new data center that...

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Read OpenLight Secures $34m in Funding
OpenLight Secures $34m in Funding

OpenLight Secures $34m in Funding

August 28, 2025 United States

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...

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Read Zenith Obtains Planning Approval for 1.24GW Data Center Project
Zenith Obtains Planning Approval for 1.24GW Data Center Project

Zenith Obtains Planning Approval for 1.24GW Data Center Project

August 27, 2025 New Mexico

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...

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

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

August 26, 2025 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 Reliability...

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

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

August 25, 2025 United States

Vantage Plots 1.4GW Data Center Campus in Texas Vantage 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. AirTrunk...

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Read Essential Utilities Invests $24m into Planned 944MW Facility
Essential Utilities Invests $24m into Planned 944MW Facility

Essential Utilities Invests $24m into Planned 944MW Facility

August 25, 2025 Pennsylvania

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...

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Read US Government Acquires 10% Stake in Intel
US Government Acquires 10% Stake in Intel

US Government Acquires 10% Stake in Intel

August 23, 2025 United States

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 $2.2bn...

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