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Read Denver City Council Approves a One-year Moratorium on Data Centers
Denver City Council Approves a One-year Moratorium on Data Centers

Denver City Council Approves a One-year Moratorium on Data Centers

May 20, 2026 Denver

Denver City Council voted Monday to approve a one-year moratorium on new data center developments. The measure temporarily halts the acceptance, processing, and approval of zoning permits, site development plans, and amendment applications related to data centers. However, the moratorium excludes...

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Read Donald Trump has Invested Millions in Data Center Industry Companies
Donald Trump has Invested Millions in Data Center Industry Companies

Donald Trump has Invested Millions in Data Center Industry Companies

May 19, 2026 United States

Donald Trump has bought millions of dollars’ worth of shares in data center-related firms this year, according to newly released financial disclosures. The 113-page filing shows he made hundreds of investments in publicly traded companies in 2026, including data center power and cooling firms...

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Read Omnia Signs $2bn Wind Deal with Casa dos Ventos to Power a ByteDance Data Center in Brazil
Omnia Signs $2bn Wind Deal with Casa dos Ventos to Power a ByteDance Data Center in Brazil

Omnia Signs $2bn Wind Deal with Casa dos Ventos to Power a ByteDance Data Center in Brazil

May 19, 2026 Brazil / Brasil

Omnia, a Brazilian data center platform, has signed a 20-year power supply agreement with renewable energy firm Casa dos Ventos to support a data center planned for ByteDance. According to Reuters, the $2 billion deal will power the facility located at the Pecém port complex in Ceará, in...

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Read $1.6bn Cleveland Data Center Plan Rejected
$1.6bn Cleveland Data Center Plan Rejected

$1.6bn Cleveland Data Center Plan Rejected

May 18, 2026 Ohio

Cleveland, Ohio, has turned down Lakeland Equity Group’s $1.6 billion plan to develop a data center campus. Mayor Justin M. Bibb announced on May 14 that the city had denied the permit for the proposed facility, which was planned for a 35-acre site at 3560 E 55th St. Lakeland described the...

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Read CoreWeave Anchors Phase 1 of eStruxture's 90 MW Calgary CAL-3
CoreWeave Anchors Phase 1 of eStruxture's 90 MW Calgary CAL-3

CoreWeave Anchors Phase 1 of eStruxture's 90 MW Calgary CAL-3

May 17, 2026 eStruxture: CAL-3

eStruxture has signed CoreWeave as the anchor tenant for Phase 1 of CAL-3, its 90 MW AI-ready data center in Rocky View County just outside Calgary, eStruxture announced on May 14. The Tier III facility is the largest data center under construction in Alberta and is targeted for commercial...

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Read H2CHP Raises £1.5m for Low-Carbon Data Center Generators
H2CHP Raises £1.5m for Low-Carbon Data Center Generators

H2CHP Raises £1.5m for Low-Carbon Data Center Generators

May 16, 2026 United States

H2CHP, a Durham University spinout developing clean electric generators for data centers and other energy-intensive sites, has raised £1.5 million ($2 million) in its latest funding round, according to Recharge News. The company’s main product is a free-piston linear generator, which it describes...

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Read Oklahoma Passes Bill to Protect Ratepayers From Data Center-Related Cost Increases
Oklahoma Passes Bill to Protect Ratepayers From Data Center-Related Cost Increases

Oklahoma Passes Bill to Protect Ratepayers From Data Center-Related Cost Increases

May 16, 2026 Oklahoma

Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt has signed a bill to protect ratepayers from rising utility and infrastructure costs linked to data centers. Proposed by Rep. Brad Boles on January 3, 2026, it is expected to take effect in July. The law requires large-load customers—including data centers, crypto...

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Read $1.7bn Lebanon County Data Center Plan Withdrawn by Developer
$1.7bn Lebanon County Data Center Plan Withdrawn by Developer

$1.7bn Lebanon County Data Center Plan Withdrawn by Developer

May 15, 2026 Pennsylvania

A proposal for a $1.7 billion data center campus in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, has been withdrawn by developer Inch & Company. The project included plans for five data centers spanning roughly 640,000 square feet on a 100-acre site near Mt. Pleasant Road, including the rezoning of 58 acres...

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

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

May 14, 2026 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...

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Read Developer Abandons 160-Acre Prince William County Data Center Project
Developer Abandons 160-Acre Prince William County Data Center Project

Developer Abandons 160-Acre Prince William County Data Center Project

May 13, 2026 Virginia

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...

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

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

May 13, 2026 Texas

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...

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Read Developer Pulls Proposed Data Center Project in Pekin, Illinois
Developer Pulls Proposed Data Center Project in Pekin, Illinois

Developer Pulls Proposed Data Center Project in Pekin, Illinois

May 13, 2026 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...

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

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

May 11, 2026 Texas

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 Provident...

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

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

May 11, 2026 Michigan

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,...

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

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

May 11, 2026 Florida

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 costs,...

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Read Top Data Center News for 4th-9th of May, 2026
Top Data Center News for 4th-9th of May, 2026

Top Data Center News for 4th-9th of May, 2026

May 11, 2026 United States

706-Acre Data Center Development Approved Near San Antonio, Texas CloudBurst has received approval for a 706-acre data center development outside San Antonio, Texas, where it plans to invest $14.5 billion to construct between 10 and 12 data center buildings in the project expected to span around...

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Read Two Data Centers with 5MW Combined Capacity Planned in Nepal
Two Data Centers with 5MW Combined Capacity Planned in Nepal

Two Data Centers with 5MW Combined Capacity Planned in Nepal

May 09, 2026 United States

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 capital,...

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

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

May 08, 2026 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...

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

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

May 07, 2026 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 plans...

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Read Anthropic to Tap Entire Colossus 1 AI Compute Cluster
Anthropic to Tap Entire Colossus 1 AI Compute Cluster

Anthropic to Tap Entire Colossus 1 AI Compute Cluster

May 06, 2026 United States

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...

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