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Duos launches first Edge data center in Texas

Duos Technology, a company specializing in machine vision and AI to analyze fast-moving objects including trains, this week announced the launch of its first Edge data center at the Region 16 Education Service Center in Amarillo. Doug Recker, president of Duos Edge AI said Amarillo is a loca...

September 06, 2024

Texas

Blueprint plans data center outside Austin, Texas

Taylor City Council last week granted unanimous approval to give Austin-based Blueprint Projects tax breaks on a proposed data center project in the city of Taylor. The company plans to use land owned by the Taylor Economic Development Corp. at 1601 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Williamson ...

August 18, 2024

Texas

Texas Instruments awarded $1.6bn in US CHIPS funding

The US Department of Commerce has signed a memorandum of terms with Texas Instruments that could see the company awarded $1.6 billion in CHIPS and Science Act funding which would support Texas Instrument’s plans to invest $18bn in the construction of two fabs in Sherman, Texas, and one in Lehi...

August 18, 2024

Texas

Natron Energy to invest $1.4 billion on a giant factory in Edgecombe County, North Carolina

Sodium-ion battery manufacturer Natron Energy plans to spend $1.4 billion on a 1.2 million square foot (111,500 sqm) facility, at the Kingsboro CSX Select Megasite which is expected to produce 24GW of batteries annually at full capacity and lead to 1,000 jobs. “Today is a momentous day for Na...

August 18, 2024

North Carolina

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

Data Journey acquires Bed Bath & Beyond data center in North Carolina

Data Journey this week announced it has acquired the former purpose-built enterprise data center from Bed Bath & Beyond data center in Claremont, Catawba County, and has converted the facility into a colocation facility. This marks the company’s second facility acquisition, after acquiring...

July 31, 2024

North Carolina

Crusoe plans new AI data center in Texas

AI firm Crusoe has revealed it has designed and engineered, and is building, a 200MW GPU-focused data center at the Lancium Clean Campus outside Abilene, Texas. This facility will include high-density data halls specially designed to enable AI workloads and optimized for direct-to-chip liquid ...

July 19, 2024

Texas

Hut 8 to expand in West Texas

Cryptomining company Hut 8 has revealed that it will beexpanding its operations in Texas and has signed a power purchase agreement to procure 205MW of energy for a new data center to be built on an undisclosed greenfield site in West Texas.Asher Genoot, CEO of Hut 8, said: “This transaction ex...

July 11, 2024

Texas

DataNovaX pitches Northern Texas as a potential hub for new facilities

DataNovaX, a new build-to-suit (BTS) data center provider, this week announced it is pitching Northern Texas as a potential hub for new facilities and is accepting clients at Pioneer Park in Wichita Falls.Ahmed Abdelghani, DataNovaX CEO, said: "This area offers a wealth of resources and busine...

June 04, 2024

Texas

Soluna secures $30 million in funding for data center expansion

Data center operator Soluna has secured $30 million in funding from Spring Lane Capital to expand its data center in Texas. Soluna said the financing will accommodate approximately 12,700 Bitcoin mining rigs, each with a power consumption of around 3.5kW, totaling 48MW. Soluna has an existing ...

May 24, 2024

Soluna

Ericsson to invest $50 million for data center expansion

Ericsson this week revealed it will invest an additional $50 million to expand its four-year-old 5G Smart Factory in Lewisville, Texas, an investment which "will further accelerate local production to address the demand for 5G infrastructure made in the USA, compliant with the Build America B...

May 21, 2024

Texas

Georgia governor vetoes bill to pause data center tax breaks after it had passed both houses

Gov. Brian Kemp this week decided to veto HB 1192, a bill that would pause tax breaks for data centers in Georgia after it had passed both houses.In a statement explaining the veto, Governor Kemp said the state extended data center exemptions to 2031 just two years ago, with projects starting ...

May 11, 2024

Georgia

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

Georgia Power increases capacity to meet data center demand

Electric utility Georgia Power (GP) has received approval from the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) to increase its generation capacity with both fossil fuels and renewable energy to meet power demand from data centers. This agreement will also allow Georgia Power to contract generation...

April 17, 2024

Georgia

Samsung plans investment in semiconductor cluster

Samsung Electronics has announced it will invest $40 billion to build a semiconductor cluster across a number of locations in Texas with a $6.4bn in direct funding under the US Chips and Science Act to support the development. The Taylor fabs are expected to be up and running by 2026 and Samsu...

April 15, 2024

Texas

Iris Energy and Poolside sign new partnership

Iris Energy and AI startup Poolside have gotten into an agreement to give the latter cloud access to Nvidia GPUs. According to Iris Energy, the initial contract is three months, with a potential three month extension. Daniel Roberts, co-Founder and co-CEO of Iris Energy, said: “We are pleased ...

February 08, 2024

Texas

Data Clean Corp acquires data center cleaning business Sealco

Data Clean Corporation has acquired Texas-based critical environment cleaning company Sealco LLC, marking its second acquisition since it was bought by Angeles Equity Partners in November 2022. Frank Spelman, managing director at Angeles Equity Partners said, “Sealco is arguably one of the mos...

November 17, 2023

Texas

Smith County data center to get $2million renovation

Smith County, Texas is giving its data center at 200 E. Ferguson Street, Texas, the Smith County Annex a $2 million upgrade. This upgrade scheduled to begin on November 1, 2023, is expected to be completed by December 20, 2024.The mission for this upgrade is focused on enhancing the IT infras...

October 09, 2023

Texas

North Carolina government funds new Washington-Warren Airport DC

After receiving additional government funding, North Carolina's Washington-Warren Airport is on track to get a new data center campus. This airport in Washington City will get $13.5 million in funding from the state budget.The government funds will be utilized to develop "key infrastructure," ...

October 02, 2023

North Carolina

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

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