September 16, 2026 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft plans to develop a new data center campus outside Gainesville in Prince William County, Virginia. The company has applied to the US Army Corps of Engineers for the MNZ07 Wellington Data Center at 13490 University Boulevard. The project would include two one-story data center buildings...
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September 11, 2026 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft plans to more than triple its data center capacity over the next five years, targeting 38GW by 2032, up from its current 12GW. The capacity will combine Microsoft-owned facilities with leased capacity from third-party providers, including neoclouds such as CoreWeave, Nscale, Lambda,...
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September 09, 2026 Google
Google and Blackstone’s joint venture is facing delays at several data center projects across the US, although the partnership remains optimistic about its progress. Known internally as Project Braid, the JV was formed in May 2026 to develop a cloud platform powered by Google’s Tensor Processing...
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September 08, 2026 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has launched its second data center in Nairobi, Kenya. The company announced on September 7 that its Nairobi Two Data Center (NBO2) is now operational, adding 6.4MW of capacity to its Nairobi campus. The facility covers 12,000 sq ft (1,100 sqm). The launch follows iColo’s...
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September 03, 2026 Equinix
Australian quantum startup Diraq has partnered with Equinix to deploy a quantum computer at an Equinix data center in Sydney. The eight-qubit system will use a silicon chip with self-contained cryogenic cooling and control electronics. The chip can be replaced to increase the qubit count without...
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August 19, 2026 Google
Google has confirmed it is behind the Project Clydesdale data center campus near Tulsa, Oklahoma. Developed by Beale Infrastructure, the 506-acre campus will be located near the Cherokee Industrial Park in Owasso. “The Tulsa Regional Chamber is thrilled that Google is deepening its footprint in...
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August 15, 2026 Global Switch
Construction has begun on Global Switch’s second data center in Madrid, Spain. Madrid 2 will be a 24,000-square-meter colocation facility with 56MW of capacity, supporting AI, cloud, and high-performance computing workloads. The facility is expected to open in 2029 and reach full capacity by...
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August 05, 2026 AtlasEdge
AtlasEdge has started the next expansion phase of its HAM002 data center in Ahrensburg, Germany. The phase will add 3.2MW of capacity, with the four-stage project set to reach 20MW across 10,000 sqm (107,640 sq ft) when complete. The facility’s first 4.4MW phase opened in 2024 and is nearly fully...
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August 04, 2026 Microsoft Azure
Swiss startup Exclaim Robotics, founded by a former Microsoft engineer, has raised $4.95 million in pre-seed funding to develop autonomous robots for AI data center maintenance. Backed by Founderful and Playfair, the company aims to automate remote hands tasks such as cleaning optics,...
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August 01, 2026 CyrusOne
CyrusOne has filed plans for three buildings at a new data center campus in Fairfield, Texas, located adjacent to Calpine’s Freestone natural gas power plant. The project, on FM 488 in Freestone County, about 90 miles (144.8km) south of Dallas, is part of a 760MW data center development being...
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July 29, 2026 Google
DTE Energy’s data centre pipeline has grown beyond 8GW, supported by major deals with Google and Oracle. The utility has secured 2.4GW of agreements, including a 1.4GW Oracle-backed project in Saline Township expected to ramp up in 2027–2028. DTE’s 1GW Google deal is awaiting approval from the...
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July 27, 2026 Google
Verizon has signed a $1 billion dark fibre agreement with Google to connect the hyperscaler's data centres, CEO Dan Schulman confirmed. Speaking during the company's Q2 earnings call, Schulman said Verizon expects to announce additional deals later this year that could generate "multiple billions...
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July 24, 2026 Google
Google has been named the sole end user and operator of the 8 million sq ft (743,224 sqm) Columbia County Data Center development in Georgia. The company was confirmed as the customer during an announcement by the county’s Economic Development Authority on 23 July. Located northwest of White Oak...
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July 22, 2026 Pure Data Centres Group
Pure DC has secured €1.3 billion ($1.48bn) in senior debt financing for the first phase of its Seinäjoki AI data center campus in Finland. Phase I will see more than €1.5 billion invested in a 110MW facility, with the campus planned to scale to 550MW. The first phase is already fully leased,...
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July 21, 2026 Google
Google Cloud suffered an outage in the Netherlands after a data center experienced a loss of utility power and cooling capacity. The Europe-West4 availability zone was affected for nearly 15 hours, impacting services including Google Cloud VMware Engine, Bare Metal Solution, and Google Cloud...
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July 14, 2026 Microsoft Azure
Pure DC has launched the first phase of its Seinäjoki, Finland, data center project, with Microsoft reportedly among the customers leasing capacity at the site. The initial phase will deliver 110MW of capacity with an estimated investment of $1.7 billion. Pure DC has been developing plans for the...
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July 14, 2026 Google
Google has been identified as the company behind the 2.7GW Project Tembo data center campus, formerly known as Project Jade, near Cheyenne, Wyoming. The 716-acre campus in Switchgrass Industrial Park will include four data halls, along with office, logistics, and network buildings. Construction...
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July 10, 2026 Equinix
Equinix has partnered with Italian energy company A2A to recover waste heat from its data center campus in Settimo Milanese and feed it into Milan’s district heating network. Under the agreement, Equinix will design and operate the heat recovery system, while A2A will use four large-scale heat...
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July 10, 2026 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft reported a 25 percent year-on-year rise in carbon emissions, with total Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions increasing to 20.29 million metric tons of CO₂e as data center expansion accelerated. The company said the jump was largely due to its decision to stop using unbundled renewable energy...
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July 04, 2026 Microsoft Azure
National Grid Ventures (NGV), the commercial arm of National Grid, has acquired a 35% stake in Joulent for $1.75 billion to support development of power infrastructure for large data centers. The investment will help fund Project Kilby, a 2.67GW natural gas facility being developed with Chevron....
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