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RealVantage Invests in $7million in Minnesota Data Center

Singapore-based real estate firm RealVantage is entering digital infrastructure, investing $7 million in a 21MW data center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The data center was acquired earlier this year by US firm Cloud Capital and Bahrain’s Arcapita, who plan to expand the site to 31MW. “The acq...

March 25, 2026

Minnesota

Developer Withdraws Plans for 316-acre Data Center in Spring Hill, Kansas

The developer behind a proposed 316-acre data center project in Spring Hill, Kansas, has pulled its application ahead of a planning commission meeting scheduled for March 25.Data center consultancy Colossus Data Center Advisors had planned to develop a campus at the southeast corner of 191st S...

March 10, 2026

Kansas

115-acre Data Center May be Developed in Osawatomie, Kansas

A 115-acre data center project could come to Osawatomie, Kansas, says the local government.“The city has entered into a predevelopment agreement with Alcove Development to explore the feasibility of a potential data center campus,” reads a post by the City of Osawatomie. Alcove’s proposed data...

February 21, 2026

Kansas

Geronimo Power Proposes Data Center in Nobles County, Minnesota

US renewable energy developer Geronimo Power is looking to develop a data center in Nobles County, Minnesota. Geronimo has indicated its interest in using its renewable energy portfolio to power a data center. A significant factor in this decision, the company has said, is the energy curtailme...

December 05, 2025

Minnesota

Lumen data center in Reno gets operating license 26 years after launching

An existing data center in Reno, Nevada, was granted a new business license to operate after going without one for nearly 20 years. The 5,925 sq ft (550 sqm) building, on a 0.28-acre site at 220 Gardner Street, was set up in 1999 by Williams Telecommunications as a telecommunications facility....

September 23, 2025

Reno

Compass Mining Energizes 7.5MW Site in Minnesota

Bitcoin mining and infrastructure services provider Compass Mining has energized a new 7.5MW site in Minnesota named Minnesota 2. It will be Compass's second facility in Minnesota, and the 23rd facility run by the company across the US and Canada.Compass Mining will be responsible for operatin...

September 10, 2025

Minnesota

Meta Partners with Amrize

Social media giant Meta and concrete maker Amrize last week announced a partnership to develop a “first-of-its-kind, AI-optimized concrete mix” tailored to meet the specific needs of Meta’s data center in Rosemount, Minnesota.“We work to design our data centers as efficiently and sustainably a...

July 25, 2025

Minnesota

Oppidan Breaks Bround on Data Center in Eagan, Minnesota

US real estate firm Oppidan Investment Company this week broke ground on a 61,000 sq ft (5,667 sqm) build-to-suit data center on Argenta Trail in Eagan. Oppidan is serving as the landlord and directly financing, developing, and delivering the facility in partnership with a tenant.“This is a de...

June 05, 2025

Minnesota

AI Drives Environmental Concerns Over Rise in Data Center Growth Across Central Texas

What's causing the growth in data centers in Austin, TX? The answer is AI. Data centers and large AI consumers, like the Texas Advanced Computing Center’s supercomputers, require enormous amounts of energy and water, raising environmental concerns. Our research reveals there are 386 data cente...

February 13, 2025

Austin

Amazon purchases land n Minnesota, for data center

Amazon has purchased 348 acres of land in Becker, Minnesota, for a data center project. According to a real estate filing published with the Minnesota Department of Revenue, the parcel will be used for a data center and was previously part of Xcel Energy Inc.'s Sherco Site.Xcel spokesperson Ke...

November 11, 2024

Minnesota

4iG plans entry into North Macedonian mobile market

Hungarian-based IT company 4iG last week, the company revealed that North Macedonia's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Transport, Aleksandar Nikoloski, held talks with Gellért Jászai, chairman of 4iG Group over a potential expansion into the North Macedonian mobile market. "We believe ...

August 07, 2024

Alabama

Meta plans data center in Montgomery, Alabama

Tech giant Meta, formerly known as Facebook, this week announced plans to build an $800 million data center in Montgomery County, Alabama. The facility is located across from Hyundai’s automotive assembly plant and will join Meta’s other Alabama data center campus 190 miles north in Huntsville...

May 09, 2024

Alabama

Hydrogen demonstration facility launches in Austin, Texas

A hydrogen demonstration facility has launched in Austin, Texas and will help provide power to the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) data center via a fuel cell. The project – located at the University of Texas (UT) J.J. Pickle Research Campus in Austin – is a collaboration between GTI En...

April 29, 2024

Austin

Meta to proceed with 750,000 square feet facility in Rosemount city Council

The Rosemount City Council has voted unanimously in favor of the Meta data center development in Minnesota. Following this vote, the facility will be developed on part of the University of Minnesota's UMore Park. The approved plan d will see a 750,000 sq ft (69,670 sqm) data center campus be d...

December 28, 2023

Minnesota

OpenAI president Greg Brockman quits as the company fires CEO

OpenAI's co-founder and president, Greg Brockman, has quit the company after the board suddenly fired CEO Sam Altman last week. Brockman, who was initially made to step down as board chairman, has left the company. The board is yet to disclose the exact reason for firing Altman as the company ...

November 20, 2023

San Francisco Bay Area

OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman fired from the company

OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman has been fired as CEO of the artificial intelligence startup as the board denounces confidence in his leadership. In a statement released by the company, the board noted that it “no longer has confidence in his ability to lead.” Mira Murati, OpenAI’s chief technol...

November 19, 2023

San Francisco Bay Area

Vacant data center in Blair, Nebraska up for sale

Cushman & Wakefield has listed a data center for sale at 256 E. Grant Street in Blair. The asking price for this facility outside Omaha, Nebraska, is listed as $1.76 million on the site and $1.5 million in the sales brochure.The 7,564 sq ft (700 sqm) facility was built on six acres in Wash...

October 03, 2023

Nebraska

St. Louis Park school district receives conditional land use permit for DC center construction

The Minnesota St. Louis Park City Council has approved a conditional use permit (CUP) for constructing a data center at 6400 Walker Street. Information from the district’s website reveals that the new center will be built southeast of the football field and next to an existing maintenance buil...

September 27, 2023

Minnesota

New HPC data center to be built at the University of Alabama

The University of Alabama (UA) will receive a new data center to house supercomputers. The UA System Board of Trustees has approved the first phase of construction for a new high-performance computing (HPC) data facility on the Tuscaloosa campus.The initiative is predicted to need $96 million ...

September 19, 2023

Alabama

Southeast Nebraska 911 services went down after Lincoln data center fire

On Saturday, September 2, a fire at a data center in Lincoln, Nebraska, shut down 911 services in the state's southeast. According to reports, the data center in issue was a Windstream facility in Lincoln. A transformer shorted and exploded due to a fire in the data center, cutting power to th...

September 04, 2023

Nebraska

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