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Read Cleveland Extends Data Center Moratorium Through January 29, 2027
Cleveland City Council voted on the night of Oct. 19 to extend the city's moratorium on new data centers through Jan. 29, 2027, or until council enacts permanent rules. The extension keeps zoning p...

Cleveland Extends Data Center Moratorium Through January 29, 2027

October 21, 2026 Ohio

Cleveland City Council voted on the night of Oct. 19 to extend the city's moratorium on new data centers through Jan. 29, 2027, or until council enacts permanent rules. The extension keeps zoning permits and occupancy certificates frozen for new standalone data centers and also covers expansions...

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Read 2026 Is the Year Texas Passes Virginia in Data Center Capacity
[Texas](https://baxtel.com/data-center/texas) now has more data center capacity operating and under construction than [Virginia](https://baxtel.com/data-center/virginia). Baxtel tracks 28.3 GW buil...

2026 Is the Year Texas Passes Virginia in Data Center Capacity

October 13, 2026 Texas

Texas now has more data center capacity operating and under construction than Virginia. Baxtel tracks 28.3 GW built or building in Texas, against 17.8 GW in Virginia. On capacity already online, Virginia still leads, 12.3 GW to 11.1 GW. If projects scheduled for this year deliver on time, Texas...

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Read ServerDomes Global Breaks Ground on 350MW Hueco Ranch Campus Near El Paso
Kaufman & Company and ServerDomes Global broke ground on Oct. 7 on Hueco Ranch, a $15 billion geodesic-dome data center campus near Desert Haven in Hudspeth County, Texas. The campus spans roughly ...

ServerDomes Global Breaks Ground on 350MW Hueco Ranch Campus Near El Paso

October 11, 2026 Texas

Kaufman & Company and ServerDomes Global broke ground on Oct. 7 on Hueco Ranch, a $15 billion geodesic-dome data center campus near Desert Haven in Hudspeth County, Texas. The campus spans roughly 24,000 acres and is planned to generate 350 MW, KTSM reported. County officials say no one told...

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Read Cipher Digital Extends Barber Lake Lease to 20 Years, Revenue Tops $9 Billion
[Cipher Digital](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/cipher-digital) has extended the contracted lease life of its [Barber Lake data center](https://baxtel.com/data-center/cipher-digital-barber-lake) i...

Cipher Digital Extends Barber Lake Lease to 20 Years, Revenue Tops $9 Billion

October 10, 2026 Cipher Digital

Cipher Digital has extended the contracted lease life of its Barber Lake data center in Colorado City, Texas from 10 years to 20, lifting total contracted revenue at the site from $3.8 billion to more than $9 billion. The increase, announced in late September as the first buildings near...

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Read ThisWay Global Plans 73MW AI and HPC Data Center in Bryan, Texas
ThisWay Global plans a 73MW data center in Bryan, Texas, called the Research and AI Compute Center (RACC). Located at Texas A&M-RELLIS, it will provide AI and HPC resources to eligible researchers,...

ThisWay Global Plans 73MW AI and HPC Data Center in Bryan, Texas

October 10, 2026 Texas

ThisWay Global plans a 73MW data center in Bryan, Texas, called the Research and AI Compute Center (RACC). Located at Texas A&M-RELLIS, it will provide AI and HPC resources to eligible researchers, public-sector organizations, and industry users. The project is planned for a 25-acre site,...

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Read ThisWay Global Revives Bankrupt Texas A&M Site As 73MW AI Center
ThisWay Global plans a 73MW research and artificial intelligence computing center at the Texas A&M-RELLIS campus in Bryan, Texas, reviving a $700 million project that stalled when its original deve...

ThisWay Global Revives Bankrupt Texas A&M Site As 73MW AI Center

October 09, 2026 Texas

ThisWay Global plans a 73MW research and artificial intelligence computing center at the Texas A&M-RELLIS campus in Bryan, Texas, reviving a $700 million project that stalled when its original developer filed for bankruptcy. The Austin company announced the Research and AI Compute Center...

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Read Crusoe Files For $4.8B Data Center Campus In Jayton, Texas
Crusoe has filed plans with the [Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation](https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/tabs/search) for a two-building data center campus in Jayton, in rural Kent County, Texas, ...

Crusoe Files For $4.8B Data Center Campus In Jayton, Texas

October 02, 2026 Texas

Crusoe has filed plans with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation for a two-building data center campus in Jayton, in rural Kent County, Texas, carrying an estimated investment of $4.8 billion. The filings, first reported by Data Center Dynamics, place the site along County Road 233...

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Read Crusoe Confirms Google AI Campus In Texas With 531MW Wind Link
Crusoe is the developer behind Google's data center campus under construction in Armstrong County, Texas, the company [said on Sept. 28](https://www.crusoe.ai/resources/newsroom/crusoe-developing-d...

Crusoe Confirms Google AI Campus In Texas With 531MW Wind Link

October 01, 2026 West Texas

Crusoe is the developer behind Google's data center campus under construction in Armstrong County, Texas, the company said on Sept. 28. The site sits outside Amarillo, and it pairs with 531 megawatts of adjacent West Texas wind, a design that puts generation rather than land at the center of the...

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Read JV Plans 54MW Data Center In Dallas, Texas
A new 54MW data center is planned for the North Dallas Corridor, with Northampton Capital Partners and Provident Data Centers targeting a late 2027 launch. The exact location has not been disclosed...

JV Plans 54MW Data Center In Dallas, Texas

September 07, 2026 Texas

A new 54MW data center is planned for the North Dallas Corridor, with Northampton Capital Partners and Provident Data Centers targeting a late 2027 launch. The exact location has not been disclosed. The companies also agreed to develop additional inference-ready data center sites across US...

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Read Gradiant To Provide HyperSolved Water Treatment System For West Texas Data Center
Gradiant has partnered with an unnamed hyperscaler to deploy its HyperSolved water treatment system at a West Texas data center. The platform manages the full cooling water cycle, using non-freshwa...

Gradiant To Provide HyperSolved Water Treatment System For West Texas Data Center

September 01, 2026 West Texas

Gradiant has partnered with an unnamed hyperscaler to deploy its HyperSolved water treatment system at a West Texas data center. The platform manages the full cooling water cycle, using non-freshwater sources, high-recovery technology, and AI-powered monitoring to reduce water use, discharge, and...

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Read Blue Energy, GE Vernova Hitachi Advance 2.5GW Texas Power Plant for Data Center
US nuclear energy company Blue Energy and GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy have agreed to advance a 2.5GW gas-and-nuclear power plant in Victoria, Texas, to supply a nearby data center. The projec...

Blue Energy, GE Vernova Hitachi Advance 2.5GW Texas Power Plant for Data Center

August 17, 2026 Texas

US nuclear energy company Blue Energy and GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy have agreed to advance a 2.5GW gas-and-nuclear power plant in Victoria, Texas, to supply a nearby data center. The project will combine GE Vernova gas turbines with BWRX-300 small modular reactors. Blue Energy plans to...

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Read Texas Grid Audit Pauses New Data Center Approvals Across ERCOT
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered an audit of every data center advancing through ERCOT's interconnection process before additional projects can move forward. ERCOT has paused its Batch Zero l...

Texas Grid Audit Pauses New Data Center Approvals Across ERCOT

August 06, 2026 Texas

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered an audit of every data center advancing through ERCOT's interconnection process before additional projects can move forward. ERCOT has paused its Batch Zero large-load review, creating a new schedule risk for developers. The order is serious, but it is not a...

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Read Veolia to Operate 350MW Gas-Fired Microgrid for Ohio Data Center Campus
French energy and water utility Veolia has been selected to operate and maintain a 350MW microgrid powering an undisclosed AI data center campus in Ohio. The behind-the-meter energy system is desig...

Veolia to Operate 350MW Gas-Fired Microgrid for Ohio Data Center Campus

July 31, 2026 Ohio

French energy and water utility Veolia has been selected to operate and maintain a 350MW microgrid powering an undisclosed AI data center campus in Ohio. The behind-the-meter energy system is designed to supply 100% of the facility’s power needs, combining gas engines, linear generators, and a...

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Read PowerPlay AI and Sharon AI Plan 400MW Gas-Powered Data Centre in Texas
PowerPlay AI has unveiled plans for a 400MW behind-the-meter natural gas-powered AI data centre near Abilene, Texas, through a joint venture with neocloud provider Sharon AI. The companies said sit...

PowerPlay AI and Sharon AI Plan 400MW Gas-Powered Data Centre in Texas

July 30, 2026 Texas

PowerPlay AI has unveiled plans for a 400MW behind-the-meter natural gas-powered AI data centre near Abilene, Texas, through a joint venture with neocloud provider Sharon AI. The companies said site planning and land acquisition have been completed, with work now focused on securing gas supply...

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Read Rowan Plans Second Building at Temple, Texas Data Centre Campus
US data centre firm Rowan has filed plans to expand its Temple, Texas campus. The company is proposing AUS02 Building 2 at 1855 Bob White Road in Bell County. The $780 million project will deliver ...

Rowan Plans Second Building at Temple, Texas Data Centre Campus

July 29, 2026 Texas

US data centre firm Rowan has filed plans to expand its Temple, Texas campus. The company is proposing AUS02 Building 2 at 1855 Bob White Road in Bell County. The $780 million project will deliver a 500,000 sq ft (46,451 sqm) single-storey facility. Construction is scheduled from August 2026 to...

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Read Flexential Acquires 110 Acres Near Dallas for 108MW Data Centre Campus
Flexential has acquired 110 acres in Kaufman County, Texas, for its fourth and largest data centre development in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Located in Talty, the first phase will deliver a 375,00...

Flexential Acquires 110 Acres Near Dallas for 108MW Data Centre Campus

July 28, 2026 Texas

Flexential has acquired 110 acres in Kaufman County, Texas, for its fourth and largest data centre development in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Located in Talty, the first phase will deliver a 375,000 sq ft (34,840 sqm) facility with 36MW of capacity, supporting wholesale and multi-tenant...

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Read Lawsuit Targets Vantage, VoltaGrid Over San Antonio Off-Grid Data Centre Project
Several environmental groups have threatened to sue Vantage Data Centers and VoltaGrid over two planned natural gas-powered off-grid data centres near San Antonio, Texas. The Environmental Integrit...

Lawsuit Targets Vantage, VoltaGrid Over San Antonio Off-Grid Data Centre Project

July 24, 2026 Texas

Several environmental groups have threatened to sue Vantage Data Centers and VoltaGrid over two planned natural gas-powered off-grid data centres near San Antonio, Texas. The Environmental Integrity Project, the Sierra Club, and Public Citizen allege the companies failed to obtain the required...

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Read Real Estate Firm Explores Potential Data Center Project in Amherst, Ohio
Cervenka Development Partners is exploring a potential data center project in Amherst, Ohio. The company has applied for a zoning variance to allow data center use on industrial land parcels along ...

Real Estate Firm Explores Potential Data Center Project in Amherst, Ohio

July 22, 2026 Ohio

Cervenka Development Partners is exploring a potential data center project in Amherst, Ohio. The company has applied for a zoning variance to allow data center use on industrial land parcels along Nordson Drive. The request will be reviewed by the City of Amherst Zoning Board of Appeals on July...

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Read Stream Proposes 867-Acre Data Center Campus in Graham, Texas
Headwaters Site Development, an affiliate of Stream Data Centers, is planning a data center campus called Project Saltworks on an approximately 890-acre site in Graham, Texas. The proposed developm...

Stream Proposes 867-Acre Data Center Campus in Graham, Texas

July 18, 2026 Texas

Headwaters Site Development, an affiliate of Stream Data Centers, is planning a data center campus called Project Saltworks on an approximately 890-acre site in Graham, Texas. The proposed development would include 15 data center buildings on land south of Lake Graham, near FM 61 and FM 209....

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Read BlackRock GIP and ACS Name Data Center JV Coravel, Secure First Texas Customer
BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) and ACS have launched Coravel, a data center platform targeting hyperscalers. Coravel has a 1.7GW development pipeline across the US, Europe, and Au...

BlackRock GIP and ACS Name Data Center JV Coravel, Secure First Texas Customer

July 16, 2026 Texas

BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) and ACS have launched Coravel, a data center platform targeting hyperscalers. Coravel has a 1.7GW development pipeline across the US, Europe, and Australia, with 150MW under construction. The company has also signed its first hyperscaler customer...

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