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AWS reports record expansion in 2025, adding 1.2GW of data centre capacity in Q4 alone

Amazon Web Services (AWS) highlighted strong expansion in its latest sustainability report, saying it added more data centre capacity globally than any other company last year, including over 1.2GW in Q4 alone. Between October 2024 and October 2025, AWS added a total of 3.8GW. CEO Andy Jassy said...

July 02, 2026

Amazon AWS

Digital Realty Buys Blackstone Stake in Three Virginia Data Centers for $3.5 Billion

Digital Realty is acquiring a stake in three Northern Virginia data centers from Blackstone. The deal covers 288MW of fully leased capacity across two sites in Manassas and one at the Digital Dulles campus in Sterling, all 100% leased to hyperscale customers. Blackstone is selling a 64% interest ...

July 01, 2026

Digital Realty Trust

Microsoft’s First Data Center at Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin Campus Now Operational

The first data center at Microsoft’s Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin campus is now officially operational, the company confirmed on June 23. Construction was completed just over two years after the project was first announced. The site is part of Microsoft’s “Fairwater” data center design and will form...

June 23, 2026

Microsoft Azure

Amazon Employees Back Data Center Regulations, Allege Workplace Retaliation

Three Amazon employees have alleged that the company retaliated against them after they testified in support of a Seattle data center moratorium. According to reports, the employees—Darius Irani, Patrick Schloesser, and Liesl Wigand, all members of Amazon Employees for Climate Justice (AECJ)—were...

June 22, 2026

Amazon AWS

Equinix Trials Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology at Data Center in Ireland

Equinix has launched its first trial of hydrogen fuel cell technology as a replacement for diesel backup generation at a data center in Ireland. Working with ESB and GeoPura, the company has deployed two hydrogen-powered generators at its DB3 Data Center facility. The 12-week trial will support c...

June 19, 2026

Equinix

Microsoft Begins Construction of La Porte Data Center Campus

Microsoft has broken ground on a new data center campus in La Porte, Indiana. Brad Smith, Microsoft vice chair and president, announced in a LinkedIn post that the groundbreaking ceremony took place on June 17. Smith wrote: "Today we broke ground in La Porte, Indiana, alongside Mayor Tom Dermo...

June 18, 2026

Microsoft Azure

Meta Veteran Sham Parmar Joins Anthropic Supply Chain Operations

Meta’s Sham Parmar has joined generative AI company Anthropic. Parmar previously served as senior manager for supply chain and engineering, overseeing electrical, mechanical, and fiber connectivity systems. "I'm excited to share that I've joined Anthropic as a supply chain lead, power and coo...

June 16, 2026

Meta

Google Plans $1.5 Billion Expansion of Alabama Data Center Campus

Google will invest an additional $1.5 billion to expand its data center campus in Jackson County through 2027. The site, built on the former Widows Creek coal plant, has been operational since 2019. According to Baxtel, it currently includes two 135,000 sq ft (12,540 sqm) data center buildings, t...

June 16, 2026

Google

Top Data Center News for 8th-13th of June, 2026

OpenAI in Early Talks for 10GW Data Center Lease in Ohio **OpenAI is in advanced talks to lease a proposed 10GW data center in Ohio which could be built in phases starting with an 800MW first stage expected i...

June 15, 2026

Google

Private Equity Firm Acquires Croatia’s ‘Fort Knox’ Data Center

Gnomon Capital has acquired 100% of Croatian data center DC North, known as the “Fort Knox” facility, in a deal involving former owners Cratis and Muraplast. Court records show the transfer was completed in late May, with Gnomon now listed as the sole shareholder. DC North was launched by Crat...

June 13, 2026

Meta

Iron County, Utah Data Center Proposal Gets Green Light

Plans for a 640-acre data center in Iron County, Utah, have been approved by local authorities. The Iron County Planning Commission voted in favor of the proposal during a meeting on June 4. The Antelope Data Center campus will include five buildings totaling around 1.35 million sq ft (125,000...

June 13, 2026

Switch

Microsoft Begins Construction on Alviso Data Center Campus in San Jose

Microsoft has started construction on its Alviso data center campus in San Jose, California. The 48MW facility will be the company's first wholly owned and operated data center in the city and is expected to be completed in 2028. The project is forecast to create around 600 construction jobs and ...

June 12, 2026

Microsoft Azure

Jinko Power Targets 1GW Solar-Backed AI Data Center Project in Western China

Chinese solar developer Jinko Power, a subsidiary of the broader Jinko Solar Group, is planning a 1GW data center project in Ningxia, western China, that will be powered directly by a dedicated solar facility. According to a report by Nikkei, the company has signed a framework investment agreemen...

June 12, 2026

Google

Blue Owl Secures $975M Financing for Northern Virginia Data Center

Corscale Data Centers has secured $975 million in financing from Blue Owl for Project Helios, a newly built data center in Prince William County, Virginia. The funding was arranged by Newmark on behalf of a joint venture between Corscale and Affinius Capital. The facility is fully leased to an in...

June 12, 2026

Amazon AWS

Amazon Data Centers Consumed 2.5 Billion Gallons of Water in 2025

Amazon said its data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water in 2025. Water withdrawals at facilities it owns and operates fell 2% from 2024 despite an increase in the number of data centers, while the company did not disclose water use at leased sites. AWS owned about 28.4 million square feet ...

June 11, 2026

Amazon AWS

Meta Signs 168MW Data Center Pact at Reliance Gujarat Campus

Meta and Reliance are partnering to develop a 168MW data center in Jamnagar, Gujarat, India. Reliance will build the facility, which Meta will lease to run AI workloads. The project may be expanded in the future, though no launch timeline has been disclosed. Meta will cover power and water costs,...

June 10, 2026

Meta

Switch Expands Debt Facility to $9.5B to Fund AI Data Center Expansion

Data center firm Switch has increased its available debt capacity to $9.5 billion. The company now has access to a more than $6 billion corporate revolving credit facility, alongside an expanded $3.5 billion syndicated uncommitted performance letter of credit facility (LCF). In April, Switch repo...

June 10, 2026

Switch

Microsoft Acquires 470-Acre Site on Finland’s West Coast for a New Data Center

Microsoft has acquired 190 hectares (469.5 acres) of land in Finland's GigaVaasa industrial zone for a potential data center project. The site spans the municipalities of Vaasa and Mustasaari on the country's west coast and was selected for its existing industrial infrastructure. “We are pleas...

June 09, 2026

Microsoft Azure

Google to Pay SpaceX-xAI $920 Million Per Month for AI Data Center Capacity

Google has entered into an agreement with SpaceX to secure large-scale computing capacity. According to a regulatory filing submitted by SpaceX on June 5, Google will lease roughly 110,000 GPUs, CPUs, memory modules, and related infrastructure for approximately $920 million per month. The contrac...

June 08, 2026

Google

Top Data Center News for 1st - 6th June, 2026

Polar DC Secures €800 Million for Norway Data Center Project **Nordic AI data center developer Polar DC has raised €800 million ($932.2 million) for the development of its Norway data ...

June 08, 2026

Google

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