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Meta Signs Pre-development Agreement for Data Center in Beloit, Wisconsin

Meta Platforms has reportedly signed a pre-development agreement with the Town of Beloit for a potential data center project in southern Wisconsin. According to the Beloit Daily News, the facility could be built on a 430-acre site located between Town Line Road, South Prairie Avenue, and East ...

March 05, 2026

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Meta Plans to Deploy 366MW of Modular Gas-fired Units to Support a 1GW Data Center in El Paso, Texas

The 1GW project, which broke ground in October, would be powered by 813 modular generators, slated to come online by 2027. The units are expected to cost $473 million. The proposal has also drawn opposition from environmental and community organizations. For instance, the Sembrando Esperanza C...

February 23, 2026

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Meta Unveils Plans for a 1GW Data Center Campus in Indiana

Meta is building a gigawatt-scale data center campus near Indianapolis, Indiana. “This facility represents an investment of over $10 billion in data center infrastructure and the surrounding community, one of our largest infrastructure investments to date,” the company said.“The data center w...

February 11, 2026

Meta

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

Bitfarms and T5 to Develop Data Center in Pennsylvania

Bitfarms, a cryptomining company pivoting to AI and HPC data centers, this week announced its partnership with T5 Data Centers to “advance HPC/AI development” at its Panther Creek campus in the state.The partnership will focus on pre-construction, design, planning, and development approval pro...

August 06, 2025

T5 Data Centers

Tonaquint rebrands to ValorC3 Data Centers

US data center firm Tonaquint announced this week that it has rebranded to ValorC3 Data Centers, saying the move aligns with its focus to expand colocation, cloud, and connectivity services across the US.“Technology is advancing at lightning speed – and so are we,” said Jim Buie, CEO of ValorC...

January 23, 2025

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Former Involta CEO Jim Buie joins Tonaquint Data Centers

US data center firm Tonaquint has appointed Jim Buie as its new chief executive officer, replacing Matt Hamlin, who had led the company for more than 16 years. Buie has previously held leadership positions at Ark Data Centers (formerly Involta) as CEO, as well as roles at Flexential (formerly ...

November 01, 2024

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T5 Data Centers acquires land outside Atlanta for a new data center campus

T5 Data Centers this week announced plans to expand its Atlanta footprint with the development of a new data center campus in South Fulton County known as ATL IV. The company has already acquired land outside Atlanta, Georgia, a 91-acre site in Palmetto already zoned for data center use and re...

August 31, 2024

T5 Data Centers

T5 to develop new data center campus in Illinois

T5 Data Centers recently revealed its plans to develop a new data center campus in Grayslake, Illinois as it announced that the 160-acre site, 40 miles north of Chicago, will be used for “multiple data center buildings.”“The new Grayslake campus represents a major investment by T5 to meet the ...

May 04, 2024

T5 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

US colocation firm Involta appoints new CEO

US colocation firm Involta has appointed a new CEO, Brett Lindsey to replace Jim Buie, who was at the company for six years. Lindsey previously served as CEO at US fiber provider Everstream, expanding its fiber network from Cleveland across ten states in the midwest as a telecoms executive. In...

January 04, 2024

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Involta purchases land for 20MW campus in Wisconsin

US colocation player Involta recently acquired a plot of land with an existing data center in Green Bay, Wisconsin, to build multiple buildings on the 24.5-acre site, extending the current footprint to up to 20MW. Bruce Lehrman, founder and vice chairman of the Board of Directors for Involta s...

December 23, 2023

Ark

Involta plans Tuscon data center expansion

US data center operator Involta recently revealed plans to expand its Tucson facility in Arizona at the 38,000 square feet to 1MW. This facility located at 1215 East Pennsylvania Street was launched in January this year. It currently offers capacity for 600 racks across 20,000 sq ft of technic...

December 19, 2023

Ark

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

Lumen sells CND customers to Akamai as it shuts down the business

Lumen announced that it’s Content Delivery Network (CDN) business will be shut down and it has sold its customer contracts to Akamai. Both companies will undergo a transition services agreement for 90 days before Lumen completes its shut down. "We are deep into our transformation of Lumen and ...

October 16, 2023

Lumen Technologies

University of Minnesota permits $40 million data center property sale to Meta

The University of Minnesota (UoM) Board of Regents has authorized the $39.7 million land sale to Meta. The 280-acre tract of land in UMore Park has been sold to Jimnist LLC, a subsidiary of Meta, for a data center.The land that comprises UMore Park is located in Rosemount and is bordered by Co...

September 08, 2023

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Meta confirms $700m Minnesota data center venture

Social network Meta is supporting a new Minneapolis data center project. Late last week, a Minnesota Public Utilities Commission document confirmed Meta's $700 million Minneapolis data center project. Xcel Energy announced an 'enterprise data center' project with a Fortune 100 company in Novem...

September 05, 2023

Meta

Lumen, a US telco, loses $8.74bn due to non-cash impairment

In the second quarter, Lumen Technologies reported a loss of $8.74 billion, a significant decrease from the $344 million profit in the same quarter last year. The company, formerly CenturyLink Enterprise, has lost more than 66 percent of its value this year, reducing its market capitalization ...

August 03, 2023

Lumen Technologies

Costs projected to rise as meta capex for data centers, servers, and networks reaches $6.4 billion

In the last quarter, Meta's capital expenditures reached $6.4 billion due to investments in data centers, servers, and network infrastructure. This is a decrease from the $7.1 billion the company spent in the previous quarter, but the Facebook proprietor is now done with a data center restruct...

July 28, 2023

Meta

Meta shares details on AI progress and data center redesign

After announcing that it was canceling or pausing data center projects that were in mid-development last year, Meta has finally revealed some details on its AI-optimized data centers. The giant has shared that it is working on a custom chip "family" to bolster the efficiency of its data center...

May 25, 2023

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