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Read NTT Data in Final Talks for 500MW, $6.3B Anthropic Data Center in Osaka
[NTT Data Group](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/ntt) is in the final stages of talks to build a data center in [Osaka](https://baxtel.com/regions/osaka) for [Anthropic](https://baxtel.com/data-cen...

NTT Data in Final Talks for 500MW, $6.3B Anthropic Data Center in Osaka

October 13, 2026 NTT

NTT Data Group is in the final stages of talks to build a data center in Osaka for Anthropic, Nikkei reported Tuesday. Construction could cost up to 1 trillion yen ($6.3 billion), and the site would draw as much as 500 MW of power, among the largest intakes of any facility in the country. The...

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Read Serverfarm Tops Out First 108MW Building at $6.6B Arkansas Campus
[Serverfarm](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/serverfarm-realty) has topped out the first building at its $6.6 billion data center campus in Clarksville, Arkansas, placing the final structural beam ...

Serverfarm Tops Out First 108MW Building at $6.6B Arkansas Campus

October 12, 2026 ServerFarm Realty

Serverfarm has topped out the first building at its $6.6 billion data center campus in Clarksville, Arkansas, placing the final structural beam on a 300,000 sq ft facility set to deliver 108MW of capacity. Chief executive Avner Papouchado announced the milestone on LinkedIn, with the Wednesday...

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Read Microsoft Trims Mount Pleasant Data Center Plan To Seven Buildings From Nine
Microsoft has cut the number of buildings planned for the 791-acre Durand Avenue portion of its Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, data center campus to seven from nine, reducing the parcel's projected tax...

Microsoft Trims Mount Pleasant Data Center Plan To Seven Buildings From Nine

October 12, 2026 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has cut the number of buildings planned for the 791-acre Durand Avenue portion of its Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, data center campus to seven from nine, reducing the parcel's projected taxable value by about 24 percent, or nearly $1.9 billion, the Milwaukee Business Journal reported on...

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Read Digital Realty Starts 24MW KIX15 Data Center At Osaka KIX Campus
[Digital Realty](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/digital-realty-trust) has begun construction of KIX15, a 24-megawatt data center at its KIX Campus in Ibaraki City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, the com...

Digital Realty Starts 24MW KIX15 Data Center At Osaka KIX Campus

October 10, 2026 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has begun construction of KIX15, a 24-megawatt data center at its KIX Campus in Ibaraki City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, the company announced on Oct. 7. The facility is being developed by MC Digital Realty, the operator's 50/50 joint venture with Mitsubishi Corporation, and is...

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Read Digital Realty Starts Construction of KIX15 Data Center in Japan
Digital Realty’s KIX15 data center will add 24MW of capacity to its KIX Campus in Ibaraki City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Developed by MC Digital Realty, a 50/50 joint venture between Digital Realty...

Digital Realty Starts Construction of KIX15 Data Center in Japan

October 09, 2026 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty’s KIX15 data center will add 24MW of capacity to its KIX Campus in Ibaraki City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Developed by MC Digital Realty, a 50/50 joint venture between Digital Realty and Mitsubishi Corporation, KIX15 will be the campus’s fifth building. Operations are expected to...

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Read CoreWeave Enters India With 240MW AdaniConneX Lease In Navi Mumbai
CoreWeave will lease 240MW of data center capacity in Navi Mumbai from AdaniConneX, marking the AI cloud provider's first deployment in India. The companies [announced the plan](https://www.corewea...

CoreWeave Enters India With 240MW AdaniConneX Lease In Navi Mumbai

October 08, 2026 CoreWeave

CoreWeave will lease 240MW of data center capacity in Navi Mumbai from AdaniConneX, marking the AI cloud provider's first deployment in India. The companies announced the plan on October 6, with the first phase due online in the middle of 2028. CoreWeave (Nasdaq: CRWV) takes the whole of three...

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Read Meta Signs for GPU Capacity at Firmus AI Factories in Southeast Asia
[Meta](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/meta) has signed strategic AI infrastructure agreements with Australian AI factory developer [Firmus Technologies](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/firmus-tech...

Meta Signs for GPU Capacity at Firmus AI Factories in Southeast Asia

September 30, 2026 Meta

Meta has signed strategic AI infrastructure agreements with Australian AI factory developer Firmus Technologies for GPU compute capacity at Firmus sites across Southeast Asia, the companies announced Tuesday. The agreements cover contracted capacity plus options to expand, and Capital Brief...

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Read Schneider Electric and Equinix Trial Software-Defined Switchgear for Data Centers
Equinix and Schneider Electric have partnered to pilot software-defined medium-voltage switchgear at an undisclosed Equinix data center. The technology, developed by Schneider Electric, is designed...

Schneider Electric and Equinix Trial Software-Defined Switchgear for Data Centers

September 30, 2026 Equinix

Equinix and Schneider Electric have partnered to pilot software-defined medium-voltage switchgear at an undisclosed Equinix data center. The technology, developed by Schneider Electric, is designed to reduce the need for specialized cabling and hardware in data centers. Schneider said the...

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Read Colovore Files Plans for $430m Data Center in Fort Worth, Texas
Colovore has filed plans for Colovore Alliance, a 156,500 sq ft (14,540 sqm) data center in Fort Worth, Texas. The $430m facility will be built on vacant land at 14700 Heritage Parkway, with constr...

Colovore Files Plans for $430m Data Center in Fort Worth, Texas

September 30, 2026 Colovore

Colovore has filed plans for Colovore Alliance, a 156,500 sq ft (14,540 sqm) data center in Fort Worth, Texas. The $430m facility will be built on vacant land at 14700 Heritage Parkway, with construction scheduled from December 2026 to December 2028. The landowner is listed as AIL Investment LP,...

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Read Meta Signs Deal to Use AI Capacity at Firmus Data Centers in Southeast Asia
Meta has agreed to lease AI compute capacity from Australian neocloud Firmus across its upcoming Southeast Asian data centers. The deal expands an existing partnership under which Meta leases Nvidi...

Meta Signs Deal to Use AI Capacity at Firmus Data Centers in Southeast Asia

September 30, 2026 Meta

Meta has agreed to lease AI compute capacity from Australian neocloud Firmus across its upcoming Southeast Asian data centers. The deal expands an existing partnership under which Meta leases Nvidia GB300 NVL72 capacity at Firmus’ Melbourne facility. Firmus is developing AI factories with DayOne...

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Read Digital Realty Appoints New Global Head Of Energy
US colocation data center firm Digital Realty has appointed Jim Collins as senior vice president and global head of energy. Collins joins from Microsoft, where he spent 13 years in various leadersh...

Digital Realty Appoints New Global Head Of Energy

September 26, 2026 Digital Realty Trust

US colocation data center firm Digital Realty has appointed Jim Collins as senior vice president and global head of energy. Collins joins from Microsoft, where he spent 13 years in various leadership roles, most recently as general manager of global energy markets. Before Microsoft, he spent a...

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Read Aligned Begins Construction On Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Campus In Pennsylvania
Aligned Data Centers has broken ground on Project Phoenix, a new 2GW data center campus in Shippingport, Pennsylvania. Located in Shippingport Industrial Park, the campus will comprise three facili...

Aligned Begins Construction On Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Campus In Pennsylvania

September 17, 2026 Aligned

Aligned Data Centers has broken ground on Project Phoenix, a new 2GW data center campus in Shippingport, Pennsylvania. Located in Shippingport Industrial Park, the campus will comprise three facilities. It is next to the former Shippingport Power Station, which is being redeveloped into a natural...

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Read Serverfarm Expands North American Data Center Fund To $3.89B
US data center company Serverfarm has increased its existing revolving credit facility to $3.89 billion after securing an additional $895 million. The funding, secured last month, will support Serv...

Serverfarm Expands North American Data Center Fund To $3.89B

September 16, 2026 ServerFarm Realty

US data center company Serverfarm has increased its existing revolving credit facility to $3.89 billion after securing an additional $895 million. The funding, secured last month, will support Serverfarm’s North American data center projects, including campuses in Houston, Texas, Clarksville,...

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Read Microsoft Files Plans For Data Center Campus In Prince William County, Virginia
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 C...

Microsoft Files Plans For Data Center Campus In Prince William County, Virginia

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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Read Edged Completes Construction Of Data Centers In Council Bluffs, Iowa
US data center operator Edged has completed the structural work on two facilities in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The company announced that OMA01-1 and OMA01-2 have reached the topping-out stage.

"Rea...

Edged Completes Construction Of Data Centers In Council Bluffs, Iowa

September 14, 2026 Edged Energy

US data center operator Edged has completed the structural work on two facilities in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The company announced that OMA01-1 and OMA01-2 have reached the topping-out stage. "Reaching this milestone reflects our continued commitment to investing in communities that are positioned...

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Read Microsoft Plans 38GW Of Data Center Capacity By 2032
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 le...

Microsoft Plans 38GW Of Data Center Capacity By 2032

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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Read Digital Realty Launches 6.4MW Data Center In Nairobi, Kenya
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 it...

Digital Realty Launches 6.4MW Data Center In Nairobi, Kenya

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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Read Meta’s $1.2B Data Center In Kuna, Idaho, Goes Live
Meta’s Kuna, Idaho Data Center Is Now Operational Meta has begun serving traffic from its data center in Kuna, Idaho. The company announced the campus in 2022, initially planning to invest $800 mil...

Meta’s $1.2B Data Center In Kuna, Idaho, Goes Live

September 04, 2026 Meta

Meta’s Kuna, Idaho Data Center Is Now Operational Meta has begun serving traffic from its data center in Kuna, Idaho. The company announced the campus in 2022, initially planning to invest $800 million in a 960,000 sq ft (89,187 sqm) facility. The project was later temporarily paused for redesign...

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Read Diraq And Equinix To Deploy Australia’s First Commercial Quantum Computer
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 cryo...

Diraq And Equinix To Deploy Australia’s First Commercial Quantum Computer

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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Read CoreWeave To Develop 360MW Data Center Capacity In Indonesia
CoreWeave is expanding into Indonesia with plans to develop three data centers, marking its first entry into the Asia-Pacific region. Scheduled to launch in 2028, the facilities will provide a comb...

CoreWeave To Develop 360MW Data Center Capacity In Indonesia

August 04, 2026 CoreWeave

CoreWeave is expanding into Indonesia with plans to develop three data centers, marking its first entry into the Asia-Pacific region. Scheduled to launch in 2028, the facilities will provide a combined 360MW of IT capacity, with CoreWeave owning and operating the compute infrastructure while...

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