July 06, 2026 United States
National Grid Ventures Invests $1.75bn for Microsoft Texas Data Center National Grid Ventures has acquired a 35% stake in Joulent for $1.75 billion to support development of Project Kilby, a 2.67GW natural gas facility being developed with Chevron, expected to supply Microsoft’s planned 2GW data...
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July 06, 2026 United States
National Grid Ventures Invests $1.75bn for Microsoft Texas Data Center National Grid Ventures has acquired a 35% stake in Joulent for $1.75 billion to support development of Project Kilby, a 2.67GW natural gas facility being developed with Chevron, expected to supply Microsoft’s planned 2GW data...
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July 01, 2026 United States
Omen AI has raised $31 million in Series A funding to develop systems for monitoring servers and other data center equipment. The San Francisco-based company’s round was led by Nava Ventures, bringing its total funding to $41.5 million since its 2024 founding. Investors include former Meta COO...
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June 29, 2026 United States
Introduction In today's digital economy, virtually every online interaction depends on a data center. Whether someone is streaming a movie, making an online payment, accessing a cloud application, or training an artificial intelligence (AI) model, there is a data center working behind the scenes...
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June 26, 2026 United States
Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have introduced the Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act, which would halt construction of new AI data centers until a federal regulatory framework is established. The bill applies to AI facilities exceeding 20MW and...
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June 26, 2026 United States
US hydrogen fuel cell developer FuelCell Energy has signed its first binding data center power agreement with US developer Fit Energy USA. Under the deal, FuelCell will provide up to 380MW of on-site fuel cell generation to power data centers behind the meter, potentially marking one of the...
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June 22, 2026 United States
Data4 Unveils Plans for €5bn AI Data Center Project in Northern France Data4 has confirmed plans for a 700MW data center campus in Escaudain, set to be the company's largest facility to date, to be developed on the site of the former Usinor steelworks in the Hauts-de-France region with an...
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June 19, 2026 United States
US power delivery platform Aston Power has raised $20 million in a funding round led by TDK Ventures and JLL Spark Global Ventures to expand its presence in the data center sector. The company said it will use the funding to grow its operations across North America and accelerate deployment of...
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June 03, 2026 United States
Schneider Electric has introduced a new range of air-cooled and free-cooling chillers. This week, the company unveiled its Uniflair XCA chiller line, designed to support the requirements of high-density, liquid-cooled data centers. The range includes the Uniflair XCAC air-cooled and Uniflair XCAF...
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May 28, 2026 United States
Artificial intelligence is driving a rapid expansion of data center infrastructure worldwide. As AI systems become more advanced and widely adopted, the demand for computing power and the electricity needed to support it is rising sharply. Unlike traditional cloud workloads, AI relies on...
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May 25, 2026 United States
Italy Plans Europe’s Largest Data Center at Former Trino Plant The mayor of Trino in northern Italy has revealed plans to develop what could become Europe’s largest data center with a €4 billion ($4.65 billion) investment in the project, which is expected to bring regional benefits, including...
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May 22, 2026 United States
Regulators in Oregon have approved a new electricity rate class requiring data centers and other large loads to pay for the grid infrastructure they use. The Oregon Public Utility Commission approved the rules under the POWER Act, signed into law in August 2025.The act establishes a new rate...
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May 21, 2026 United States
U.S. Department of Energy’s National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR) in Applewood, Colorado has launched “Agora,” a data center grid integration test bed aimed at improving grid reliability. Funded by the DOE’s Office of Electricity and industry partners, it is described as the only dedicated...
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May 19, 2026 United States
Donald Trump has bought millions of dollars’ worth of shares in data center-related firms this year, according to newly released financial disclosures. The 113-page filing shows he made hundreds of investments in publicly traded companies in 2026, including data center power and cooling firms...
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May 16, 2026 United States
H2CHP, a Durham University spinout developing clean electric generators for data centers and other energy-intensive sites, has raised £1.5 million ($2 million) in its latest funding round, according to Recharge News. The company’s main product is a free-piston linear generator, which it describes...
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May 11, 2026 United States
706-Acre Data Center Development Approved Near San Antonio, Texas CloudBurst has received approval for a 706-acre data center development outside San Antonio, Texas, where it plans to invest $14.5 billion to construct between 10 and 12 data center buildings in the project expected to span around...
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May 09, 2026 United States
A pair of data centers with a combined capacity of 5MW is planned for development in Nepal. Local operator Bichuten Data Vault announced that the facilities will also represent Nepal’s first Tier IV hyperscale data center. The two planned facilities will be located in Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital,...
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May 06, 2026 United States
Anthropic plans to use the full compute capacity of xAI’s Colossus 1 data center as part of a partnership with SpaceX, the company’s owner. The agreement gives Anthropic access to more than 300MW of capacity and over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs within the month. The generative AI company said the...
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May 05, 2026 United States
Fleet Data Centers has closed $4.6 billion in senior secured notes to fund a 230MW data center campus in Storey County, Nevada. The hyperscale facility is reportedly fully leased to an unnamed AA-rated, investment-grade tenant with a market capitalization exceeding $3 trillion, under a 197-month...
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April 29, 2026 United States
Rising demand from data centers for natural gas power is driving up the cost of new combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plants, according to a report from BloombergNEF. The report found that costs have climbed from less than $1,500 per kilowatt of capacity in 2023 to $2,157 in 2025—a 66% increase....
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