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Read Vantage Data Centers Raises $2B For North American Development Portfolio
Vantage Data Centers has secured $2 billion in financing to support early-stage development across its North American portfolio. The five-year revolving credit facility initially covers three devel...

Vantage Data Centers Raises $2B For North American Development Portfolio

September 15, 2026 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has secured $2 billion in financing to support early-stage development across its North American portfolio. The five-year revolving credit facility initially covers three development assets, with more eligible to be added. Vantage said the funding will accelerate project...

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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.

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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 Thor Equities Plans 150MW Data Center In Georgia, US
Real estate investment firm Thor Equities has submitted plans for a 150MW data center in Kingston, Bartow County, Georgia. Filed through Thor Acquisitions WC LLC, the $1 billion project is targeted...

Thor Equities Plans 150MW Data Center In Georgia, US

September 14, 2026 Thor Equities Group

Real estate investment firm Thor Equities has submitted plans for a 150MW data center in Kingston, Bartow County, Georgia. Filed through Thor Acquisitions WC LLC, the $1 billion project is targeted for completion in 2030. Dubbed the Kingston Technology Hub, the project is expected to generate...

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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 Google And Blackstone JV Faces Delays On Data Center Projects
Google and Blackstone’s joint venture is facing delays at several data center projects across the US, although the partnership remains optimistic about its progress. Known internally as Project Bra...

Google And Blackstone JV Faces Delays On Data Center Projects

September 09, 2026 Google

Google and Blackstone’s joint venture is facing delays at several data center projects across the US, although the partnership remains optimistic about its progress. Known internally as Project Braid, the JV was formed in May 2026 to develop a cloud platform powered by Google’s Tensor Processing...

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Read Qualcomm And AWS Collaborate On Custom AI Silicon For Large-Scale Data Centers
Qualcomm is partnering with Amazon to develop customized AI infrastructure solutions. Under the multi-generational partnership, Qualcomm Technologies and Amazon will develop custom silicon for larg...

Qualcomm And AWS Collaborate On Custom AI Silicon For Large-Scale Data Centers

September 08, 2026 Amazon AWS

Qualcomm is partnering with Amazon to develop customized AI infrastructure solutions. Under the multi-generational partnership, Qualcomm Technologies and Amazon will develop custom silicon for large-scale AI data centers, focusing on AI inference and optical connectivity of up to 1.6T. The...

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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 Google Reveals It Is Behind 506-Acre Project Clydesdale Data Center In Oklahoma
Google has confirmed it is behind the Project Clydesdale data center campus near Tulsa, Oklahoma. Developed by Beale Infrastructure, the 506-acre campus will be located near the Cherokee Industrial...

Google Reveals It Is Behind 506-Acre Project Clydesdale Data Center In Oklahoma

August 19, 2026 Google

Google has confirmed it is behind the Project Clydesdale data center campus near Tulsa, Oklahoma. Developed by Beale Infrastructure, the 506-acre campus will be located near the Cherokee Industrial Park in Owasso. “The Tulsa Regional Chamber is thrilled that Google is deepening its footprint in...

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Read Amazon Acquires 8,000-Acre Texas Site for Gas-Powered Data Center
Amazon has acquired an 8,000-acre site in Pecos, Texas, where it plans to develop a data center powered by an on-site natural gas plant that could become one of the largest in the US. According to ...

Amazon Acquires 8,000-Acre Texas Site for Gas-Powered Data Center

August 10, 2026 Amazon AWS

Amazon has acquired an 8,000-acre site in Pecos, Texas, where it plans to develop a data center powered by an on-site natural gas plant that could become one of the largest in the US. According to Cleanview reporting, Amazon acquired the GW Ranch site from Pacifico Energy for the planned...

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Read We Energies Begins Three Renewable Projects to Help Power Vantage Data Center
Wisconsin utility We Energies has begun construction on three renewable energy and battery storage projects, with about half of their combined capacity earmarked for a major AI data center campus i...

We Energies Begins Three Renewable Projects to Help Power Vantage Data Center

August 08, 2026 Vantage Data Centers

Wisconsin utility We Energies has begun construction on three renewable energy and battery storage projects, with about half of their combined capacity earmarked for a major AI data center campus in Port Washington. The projects include a 150MW solar farm with 50MWh of battery storage, a 110MW...

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Read AWS Eyes Data Center Development at 4.5GW Gas Plant in Pennsylvania
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is exploring a potential data center development at a natural gas power plant near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. First reported by TribLive, Amazon is considering a data cente...

AWS Eyes Data Center Development at 4.5GW Gas Plant in Pennsylvania

August 07, 2026 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is exploring a potential data center development at a natural gas power plant near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. First reported by TribLive, Amazon is considering a data center campus next to the planned Homer City Redevelopment gas plant in Indiana County. “As part of our...

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Read AWS Withdraws From Planned Data Center Campus Near Maryland Nuclear Plant
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has dropped plans for a data center campus next to Maryland's Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant. The proposed project in Lusby, Calvert County, would have included eight ...

AWS Withdraws From Planned Data Center Campus Near Maryland Nuclear Plant

August 05, 2026 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has dropped plans for a data center campus next to Maryland's Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant. The proposed project in Lusby, Calvert County, would have included eight buildings totaling 2.46 million square feet (228,540 sqm) and around 500MW of capacity, powered...

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Read Former Microsoft Researcher Launches Data Center Robotics Startup
Swiss startup Exclaim Robotics, founded by a former Microsoft engineer, has raised $4.95 million in pre-seed funding to develop autonomous robots for AI data center maintenance. Backed by Founderfu...

Former Microsoft Researcher Launches Data Center Robotics Startup

August 04, 2026 Microsoft Azure

Swiss startup Exclaim Robotics, founded by a former Microsoft engineer, has raised $4.95 million in pre-seed funding to develop autonomous robots for AI data center maintenance. Backed by Founderful and Playfair, the company aims to automate remote hands tasks such as cleaning optics,...

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Read CyrusOne Files Plans for Three-Building, $1.5bn Data Center Campus in Fairfield, Texas
CyrusOne has filed plans for three buildings at a new data center campus in Fairfield, Texas, located adjacent to Calpine’s Freestone natural gas power plant. The project, on FM 488 in Freestone Co...

CyrusOne Files Plans for Three-Building, $1.5bn Data Center Campus in Fairfield, Texas

August 01, 2026 CyrusOne

CyrusOne has filed plans for three buildings at a new data center campus in Fairfield, Texas, located adjacent to Calpine’s Freestone natural gas power plant. The project, on FM 488 in Freestone County, about 90 miles (144.8km) south of Dallas, is part of a 760MW data center development being...

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Read AWS Plans 800,000 sq ft Data Center Campus at GWU Site in Ashburn
Details have emerged about Amazon's latest planned data center campus in Northern Virginia. Loudoun County Supervisor Juli E. Briskman (D-Algonkian) said this week that Amazon has filed plans to de...

AWS Plans 800,000 sq ft Data Center Campus at GWU Site in Ashburn

July 31, 2026 Amazon AWS

Details have emerged about Amazon's latest planned data center campus in Northern Virginia. Loudoun County Supervisor Juli E. Briskman (D-Algonkian) said this week that Amazon has filed plans to develop a four-building, 800,000 sq ft (74,320 sqm) data center campus at the former George Washington...

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Read DTE Data Centre Pipeline Tops 8GW Following Oracle and Google Deals
DTE Energy’s data centre pipeline has grown beyond 8GW, supported by major deals with Google and Oracle. The utility has secured 2.4GW of agreements, including a 1.4GW Oracle-backed project in Sali...

DTE Data Centre Pipeline Tops 8GW Following Oracle and Google Deals

July 29, 2026 Google

DTE Energy’s data centre pipeline has grown beyond 8GW, supported by major deals with Google and Oracle. The utility has secured 2.4GW of agreements, including a 1.4GW Oracle-backed project in Saline Township expected to ramp up in 2027–2028. DTE’s 1GW Google deal is awaiting approval from the...

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Read Verizon Signs $1bn Fibre Deal With Google to Connect Data Centres
Verizon has signed a $1 billion dark fibre agreement with Google to connect the hyperscaler's data centres, CEO Dan Schulman confirmed. Speaking during the company's Q2 earnings call, Schulman said...

Verizon Signs $1bn Fibre Deal With Google to Connect Data Centres

July 27, 2026 Google

Verizon has signed a $1 billion dark fibre agreement with Google to connect the hyperscaler's data centres, CEO Dan Schulman confirmed. Speaking during the company's Q2 earnings call, Schulman said Verizon expects to announce additional deals later this year that could generate "multiple billions...

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Read Google Named End User of 8 Million sq ft Data Centre in Columbia, Georgia
Google has been named the sole end user and operator of the 8 million sq ft (743,224 sqm) Columbia County Data Center development in Georgia. The company was confirmed as the customer during an ann...

Google Named End User of 8 Million sq ft Data Centre in Columbia, Georgia

July 24, 2026 Google

Google has been named the sole end user and operator of the 8 million sq ft (743,224 sqm) Columbia County Data Center development in Georgia. The company was confirmed as the customer during an announcement by the county’s Economic Development Authority on 23 July. Located northwest of White Oak...

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Read Power and Cooling Failure Causes Google Cloud Outage in Netherlands
Google Cloud suffered an outage in the Netherlands after a data center experienced a loss of utility power and cooling capacity. The Europe-West4 availability zone was affected for nearly 15 hours,...

Power and Cooling Failure Causes Google Cloud Outage in Netherlands

July 21, 2026 Google

Google Cloud suffered an outage in the Netherlands after a data center experienced a loss of utility power and cooling capacity. The Europe-West4 availability zone was affected for nearly 15 hours, impacting services including Google Cloud VMware Engine, Bare Metal Solution, and Google Cloud...

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Read Microsoft Secures Capacity At Pure DC Data Center In Finland
Pure DC has launched the first phase of its Seinäjoki, Finland, data center project, with Microsoft reportedly among the customers leasing capacity at the site. The initial phase will deliver 110MW...

Microsoft Secures Capacity At Pure DC Data Center In Finland

July 14, 2026 Microsoft Azure

Pure DC has launched the first phase of its Seinäjoki, Finland, data center project, with Microsoft reportedly among the customers leasing capacity at the site. The initial phase will deliver 110MW of capacity with an estimated investment of $1.7 billion. Pure DC has been developing plans for the...

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