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Nebius will Deploy Bloom Energy Fuel Cells to Supply Power for its U.S. Data Centers

Nebius has signed a deal with Bloom Energy to deploy solid oxide fuel cells for its U.S. AI infrastructure buildout. The first project will deliver 328MW of behind-the-meter power for Nebius’ AI cloud platform at an undisclosed site, with operations expected to begin later this year.“Power rem...

May 21, 2026

Nebius

Cerebras Secures 40MW at Digi Power X Alabama Facility

Wafer-scale chip company and cloud provider Cerebras has signed an agreement to lease 40MW of capacity at a Digi Power X data center in Columbiana, Alabama. The contract has an initial term of 10 years and is valued at $1.1 billion, with the potential to be extended to a total value of $2.5 bi...

May 06, 2026

Cerebras Systems

Cerebras Eyes Data Center Project in Manitoba, Canada

Cerebras is planning to develop a data center in Manitoba, Canada, DCD has learned. Earlier this month, the company announced it would be a tenant at a 300MW Bell Canada facility in Saskatchewan, where CoreWeave is also expected to lease capacity."Today, you might have noticed that we announce...

March 24, 2026

Cerebras Systems

Nebius Unveils Plans for a 240MW Data Center in Béthune, France

Amsterdam-based AI cloud provider Nebius is planning a 240MW data center in Béthune, France. As reported by Les Echos, the project will see the former Bridgestone tyre plant redeveloped and set to deliver capacity in phases.Speaking on the project, Blackwell said: "The choice of France came ab...

February 12, 2026

Nebius

QTS Drops Plan for Data Center near Madison, Wisconsin

QTS has backed off plans to develop a data center near Madison, Wisconsin, after pushback from local officials. The company has dropped plans for a campus in the Village of DeForest after the village announced its intention to deny an annexation request related to the project.“After individual...

January 30, 2026

QTS Data Centers

DC Blox Secures $240 Million in Holdco Financing

US data center operator DC Blox has secured $240 million in holdco financing from BlackRock subsidiary Global Infrastructure Partners. Holdco financing is a financial instrument that allows an investing parent company like GIP to raise debt on behalf of a subsidiary like DC Blox. “We are excit...

January 16, 2026

DC BLOX

Nebius Plans 800MW Data Center Campus in Kansas City, Missouri

European cloud firm Nebius is planning a large data center development outside Kansas City, Missouri. According to the city of Independence, Nebius is planning a 2.5 million sq ft (232,255 sqm) campus in the existing Eastgate Commerce Center, off Little Blue Parkway and Missouri Highway 78 in ...

January 10, 2026

Nebius

Lumen Appoints Jim Fowler as CTO

Lumen Technologies has appointed Jim Fowler as its executive vice president and chief technology and product officer. The new CTO is to succeed Dave Ward, who is leaving Lumen to become president and chief architect at Salesforce.Starting from January 6, Fowler will manage global technology an...

December 11, 2025

Lumen Technologies

QTS Starts Preparation for $13bn UK data center

QTS has begun site work on a massive data center project in Northumberland, UK which could see an investment of up to £10 billion ($13.2bn) across 10 facilities if fully built out. This March, the project received outline planning permission from the local council. After initially being pitche...

October 10, 2025

QTS Data Centers

QTS Plans Data Center in Forssa, Finland

Data center firm QTS is expanding its European footprint with plans for a campus in Finland. The City of Forssa signed a preliminary agreement earlier this year with QTS for more than 100 hectares of land in Ratasmäki. "The interest of a large investor like Blackstone in Forssa is very good ne...

August 20, 2025

QTS Data Centers

DC Blox Secures $1.15bn Green Loan for Atlanta Data Center

US data center firm DC Blox this week announced it has closed $1.15 billion in green loan financing for the construction of a data center campus in Douglas County, Georgia. The funds will support the development of a 120MW data center and include campus expansion to support an additional 80MW,...

August 13, 2025

DC BLOX

QTS Breaks Ground on Data Center in Iowa

QTS has officially announced plans for a new data center campus in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The campus could support up to seven data center buildings at full build-out and see up to $10 billion invested.Tag Greason and David Robey, co-CEOs of QTS, said: “From day one, we believe in being a good ne...

August 13, 2025

QTS Data Centers

Meta & QTS sign solar PPA in Oregon

Avangrid and Portland General Electric (PGE) have signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with QTS and Meta for energy from a 120MW solar energy project under construction in Morrow County, Oregon. This project will deliver energy to the PGE grid through the Green Future Impact (GFI) program, ...

December 06, 2024

QTS Data Centers

DC Blox secures new equity investment and green loan

US data center operator DC Blox this week announced it has raised incremental equity capital from its existing and new investors, led by Post Road Group and Bain Capital Credit. The funding will enable the deployment of more than $1 billion of total capital to finance future construction and t...

October 10, 2024

DC BLOX

Blackstone claims a data center portfolio of $55bn

Investment management company Blackstone in its latest earnings call mentioned that it has more than $70 billion in prospective data center pipeline development and over $70 billion in prospective data center pipeline development. CEO Stephen Schwarzman said that "the consequences of AI are as...

July 25, 2024

QTS Data Centers

Lumen secures new contract from GAO

Lumen Technologies has secured a contract worth about $73.6 million from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) under the General Services Administration's Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) program. This multi-million dollar contract will see Lumen modernize network, data, voice...

April 15, 2024

Lumen Technologies

DC Blox expands Birmingham, Alabama data center

DC Blox has expanded its data center in Birmingham, Alabama, to cater for high-performance computing (HPC) workloads, adding additional IT capacity of 2.4MW. The company said it has completed a redesign of its data hall at the facility so that it can house up to 240 standard retail cabinets a...

March 09, 2024

DC BLOX

DC Blox plans new campus outside Atlanta

US operator DC Blox announced this week that it had acquired 72 acres of land in Conyers, southeast of Atlanta in Rockdale County, Georgia, for a new data center campus. Once completed, this facility will feature 750,000 square feet (69,675 sqm) of space with 216MW of total power committed by ...

December 15, 2023

DC BLOX

County’s planning staff recommends denial of massive data center project again

The Prince William County staff have again recommended the denial of all three rezoning requests associated with the PW Digital Gateway data center project. This comes after two rejections of the rezoning requests by QTS and Compass in recent months. County staff said in a report, “At this po...

December 13, 2023

Compass Datacenters

US Defense Information Systems Agency awards $110 million contract to Lumen

The US Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded Lumen Technologies a $110 million contract to provide mission-critical network services to the US Department of Defense (DoD). This contract has a timeline of five years, from November 30, 2023, through September 30, 2028. This contract is...

November 10, 2023

Lumen Technologies

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