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Read Former LBNL Supercomputing Site in Oakland Slated for 20MW Data Center
A real estate firm is planning to convert a former supercomputing facility in Oakland, California, into a 20MW data center. First reported by BizJournal, Behring Cos. plans to redevelop 415 20th St...

Former LBNL Supercomputing Site in Oakland Slated for 20MW Data Center

August 12, 2026 California

A real estate firm is planning to convert a former supercomputing facility in Oakland, California, into a 20MW data center. First reported by BizJournal, Behring Cos. plans to redevelop 415 20th Street, a four-story building that once housed the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Oakland...

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Read Developer Withdraws Proposal To Convert El Segundo Hotel Into Data Center
Eight Form has withdrawn its proposal to replace a Hyatt Place hotel in El Segundo, California, with a data center. The plan involved demolishing the hotel at 750 N. Nash Street to build a five-sto...

Developer Withdraws Proposal To Convert El Segundo Hotel Into Data Center

July 15, 2026 California

Eight Form has withdrawn its proposal to replace a Hyatt Place hotel in El Segundo, California, with a data center. The plan involved demolishing the hotel at 750 N. Nash Street to build a five-story, 230,780 sq ft (21,440 sqm) facility with 50MW of capacity. Eight Form withdrew the proposal...

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Read 99MW Data Center Planned by Prologis in San Jose
Real estate firm Prologis is planning a 99MW data center in San Jose, California. The proposed three-story facility would span 516,000 sq ft (47,935 sqm) across a 15-acre site on Silver Creek Valle...

99MW Data Center Planned by Prologis in San Jose

July 09, 2026 California

Real estate firm Prologis is planning a 99MW data center in San Jose, California. The proposed three-story facility would span 516,000 sq ft (47,935 sqm) across a 15-acre site on Silver Creek Valley Road and include an on-site substation. Construction is expected to take around two years, with...

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Read Proposed 99MW Data Center in Kern County, California
Applications have been submitted for the development of a 99 MW data center in California. The proposed facility would be located near the intersection of US Highway 395 and State Route 178 in Inyo...

Proposed 99MW Data Center in Kern County, California

July 07, 2026 California

Applications have been submitted for the development of a 99 MW data center in California. The proposed facility would be located near the intersection of US Highway 395 and State Route 178 in Inyokern, an unincorporated community within Kern County, California. The single-story, 238,000 sq ft...

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Read Plans Emerge for 600MW Data Center in Coachella, California
Plans Emerge for 600MW Data Center in Coachella, California

Plans Emerge for 600MW Data Center in Coachella, California

April 11, 2026 California

A 600MW data center could be developed in Coachella, Southern California. Developer DMK Projects is proposing to build the facility on a 240-acre site at the corner of 52nd Avenue and Fillmore Street.Project documents presented at a City Council meeting on February 11 indicate that DMK plans for...

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Read 648-acre Data Center Proposed in Clarksdale, Mississippi
648-acre Data Center Proposed in Clarksdale, Mississippi

648-acre Data Center Proposed in Clarksdale, Mississippi

March 17, 2026 Mississippi

A 648-acre data center has been proposed in Clarksdale, northern Mississippi. On Monday, city officials held an informational meeting on a potential project planned for agricultural land between the Sunflower River and Tallahatchie Street.The city’s board of commissioners had considered a...

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Read Musk’s xAI Approved for 41 Natural gas Turbines in Mississippi to Power Colossus Data Centers
Musk’s xAI Approved for 41 Natural gas Turbines in Mississippi to Power Colossus Data Centers

Musk’s xAI Approved for 41 Natural gas Turbines in Mississippi to Power Colossus Data Centers

March 11, 2026 Mississippi

Elon Musk’s AI company xAI has received approval to install 41 natural gas turbines at a site in Mississippi, generating up to 1.2GW to power its local data centers.The turbines, which will be installed at a former Duke Energy power plant site in Southaven, will be used to power xAI’s Colossus 2...

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Read Mississippi Governor Labels Data Center Moratoriums as “Civilizational Suicide”
Mississippi Governor Labels Data Center Moratoriums as “Civilizational Suicide”

Mississippi Governor Labels Data Center Moratoriums as “Civilizational Suicide”

February 24, 2026 Mississippi

The governor of Mississippi hit back at calls to pause data center construction across the US. Governor Tate Reeves claimed that those seeking a data center moratorium were "yearning to submit our society to outside forces: mobs, international councils, or communist China.""I understand...

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Read Californian Senator Proposes Bill to Create New Rate Class
Californian Senator Proposes Bill to Create New Rate Class

Californian Senator Proposes Bill to Create New Rate Class

February 06, 2026 California

A new bill has been introduced in the California Senate aimed at regulating the expansion of large load data centers across the state and protecting ratepayers from footing the bill for the generation and transmission infrastructure needed to power them.Introduced by Senator Sasha Renée Pérez...

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Read Avaio to Develop $6bn Data Center Campus in Little Rock, Arkansas
Avaio to Develop $6bn Data Center Campus in Little Rock, Arkansas

Avaio to Develop $6bn Data Center Campus in Little Rock, Arkansas

January 14, 2026 AVAIO Digital Partners

Avaio Digital Partners this week announced plans for a new data center hub near Little Rock in Pulaski County, Arkansas. Known as Avaio Digital Leo, Avaio is currently contracted with Entergy Arkansas for 150MW of power, but the company anticipates power demand of up to 1GW as the 760-acre campus...

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Read xAI Confirms New Data Center in Mississippi
xAI Confirms New Data Center in Mississippi

xAI Confirms New Data Center in Mississippi

January 09, 2026 Mississippi

Elon Musk’s AI company xAI has confirmed it is set to build a third data center in Mississippi, and will invest more than $20 billion in the state. The data center in Southhaven, DeSoto County, which will be known as MACROHARDRR – an apparent dig at Microsoft – will supply compute power for the...

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Read 250,000 Feet Data Center Proposal in Monterey Park, California Faces opposition
250,000 Feet Data Center Proposal in Monterey Park, California Faces opposition

250,000 Feet Data Center Proposal in Monterey Park, California Faces opposition

December 06, 2025 California

A proposal to build a 250,000 sq ft (23,225 sqm) data center in Monterey Park, California, is facing opposition from residents. The Monterey Park City Council was set to consider whether to approve the construction of the facility on Wednesday, but significant public hostility towards the...

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Read PG&E Data Center Pipeline Shrinks to 9.6GW
PG&E Data Center Pipeline Shrinks to 9.6GW

PG&E Data Center Pipeline Shrinks to 9.6GW

October 31, 2025 California

Californian utility company Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) has seen its data center pipeline fall by 400MW compared to June, reporting 9.6GW of projects seeking a connection. While the utility saw a decline in early-stage data center projects in its pipeline, it reported that 18 projects...

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Read PG&E Announces $73bn Grid Infrastructure Upgrade Plan
PG&E Announces $73bn Grid Infrastructure Upgrade Plan

PG&E Announces $73bn Grid Infrastructure Upgrade Plan

September 29, 2025 California

California’s biggest utility company, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), has revealed a new $73 billion spending program to upgrade its grid infrastructure to meet the surging demand from artificial intelligence and cloud computing.The investment is expected to support up to 10GW of new data...

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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 Avaio Targets $6bn Mississippi Data Center Campus
Avaio Targets $6bn Mississippi Data Center Campus

Avaio Targets $6bn Mississippi Data Center Campus

August 20, 2025 AVAIO Digital Partners

Data center developer Avaio Digital Partners this week announced plans for a new $6 billion data center campus in Mississippi's Rankin County. The campus, known as Avaio Digital Taurus, will total 600,000 sq ft (55,742 sqm) of data center space and 116MW of capacity. The company said the project...

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Read Kildare Completes Government Data Center
 Kildare Completes Government Data Center

Kildare Completes Government Data Center

August 15, 2025 Republic of Ireland

County Kildare in Ireland has completed the construction of a government data center which will be for government use, replacing several smaller data centers, and is located at the Backweston Campus in Kildare. It has been designed with sustainability in mind, and waste heat may be used at other...

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Read CoreSite Launches Santa Clara Data Center
CoreSite Launches Santa Clara Data Center

CoreSite Launches Santa Clara Data Center

August 01, 2025 California

US data center firm CoreSite this week announced the completion of SV9, a new 228,000 sq ft (21,181 sqm) facility offering 34MW.“This strategic expansion in Silicon Valley reflects our commitment to delivering the scalable, high-performance infrastructure our customers need to power AI, cloud,...

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Read Proposed Data Center Scaled Down in San Francisco, California
Proposed Data Center Scaled Down in San Francisco, California

Proposed Data Center Scaled Down in San Francisco, California

July 25, 2025 California

The Guadalupe Quarry Redevelopment Project propose in San Francisco, California, has been scaled down amid environmental concerns. The site is located south of San Francisco in the city of Brisbane and the company seeks to construct a 180,000 sq ft (17,000 sqm) data center and an industrial...

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Read Lambda Installs GB200 NVL72 Rack in California
Lambda Installs GB200 NVL72 Rack in California

Lambda Installs GB200 NVL72 Rack in California

January 29, 2025 California

GPU cloud provider Lambda has deployed an Nvidia GB200 NVL72 rack system at EdgeCloudLink's (ECL) data center in Mountain View, California. The rack was installed on January 22, and the installation process took around "one hour" due to the flexibility of the data center.In a LinkedIn post, ECL's...

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