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August 01, 2026
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Yandex NV
A Yandex data center in Sasovo, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, has reportedly been hit by a drone strike, according to the Kyiv Independent. Open-source intelligence groups identified the facility as Yandex DC Sasovo, the company’s largest data center. Yandex Cloud’s status dashboard reported an ongoing ...
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Google’s planned data centers in Finland are under investigation after around 300 hectares of forest were reportedly cleared before environmental assessments were completed. Finland’s Licensing and Supervision Agency has requested reports from local authorities and project manager Tuike Finland o...
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South Korea
KT Cloud is developing a 50MW data center in the Cheongna district of Incheon, South Korea. The facility will have two basement levels and 11 floors above ground. Construction is due to begin in Q4 2026, with completion targeted for Q1 2030. As the design, build, and operate partner, KT Cloud wil...
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Applied Digital
Applied Digital is expanding into Europe with plans for a 1GW-scale data center campus in Finland.The Nasdaq-listed company has secured access to up to 1GW of potential power capacity, with initial availability expected from 2028. The project is Applied Digital’s first outside the US. Details rem...
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Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has filed plans for a 36-building data center campus at the Homer City Energy Campus in Pennsylvania. AWS first revealed its interest in the area in August while discussing potential development with Homer City Redevelopment. The proposed campus will span 1,100 acres acr...
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Google will buy 890 MW of new nuclear output from Constellation Energy under a 20-year power purchase agreement covering 11 reactors across the PJM Interconnection, the companies announced on Oct. 6. Constellation will spend more than $4.3 billion upgrading reactors in Illinois, Pennsylvania and ...
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Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services has formally signed on to the largest gas-powered data center project in the United States. Amazon Data Services, Inc., the company's development arm, filed a Preliminary Land Development Plan with the Indiana County planning commission on August 28 under the project name PIT1...
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Firmus Technologies
Australian neocloud provider Firmus has reached construction milestones at data center projects in Tasmania and Indonesia. In Tasmania, Firmus has topped out the first of two 42MW data halls at its Launceston site, with primary cooling pipework also installed. In Indonesia, the first data hall ha...
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Italy
IT systems in Basilicata, southern Italy, have been restored after a data center outage between September 27 and 28. The regional government said its Central Reservation Center for healthcare services was back online on Wednesday. Technicians worked for several hours to restore the data center in...
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Nova Complex
Green hydrogen and ammonia producer EverWind Fuels is exploring plans to add data centers at its industrial site in Point Tupper, Nova Scotia, Canada. The company confirmed to CBC that its long-term plans could include data center development at the site, near Port Hawkesbury. EverWind spokespers...
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atNorth
Nordic data center operator atNorth is expanding its presence in Finland with a new facility in Salo. The FIN05 campus will occupy 28.6 hectares, with 75MW secured for its first phase and expansion potential of up to 230MW, including 160MW of IT capacity. AtNorth plans to invest €2 billion ($2.24...
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Former IBM research campus in San Jose, California, is being acquired by data center developer Blackstart Digital. According to Mercury News, Blackstart has agreed to acquire the former IBM Almaden Research Center at 650 Harry Road, with financial terms undisclosed. The deal could close before th...
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Google’s former head of global data center design and construction, John M. Wilson, has joined Anthropic as a member of technical staff, leading EMEA capacity delivery after six years at Google. "Leading global infrastructure delivery across data centers and subsea programs taught me two enduring...
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United Kingdom
An industrial and data center campus has been proposed at the former Fawley Power Station site near Southampton, UK. Developer Fawley Waterside Limited plans to transform the site into a mixed-use industrial and commercial campus, with potential data center developments. The project would provide...
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Ares Management Corporation
Investment firm Ares Management has increased its stake in Sabey Data Centers. Sabey Corporation and National Real Estate Advisors said Ares Secondaries funds have expanded their investment in Sabey Data Center Properties, bringing Ares’ total commitment to more than $500 million. Sabey currently...
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Applied Digital
Applied Digital has completed the second phase of Building 2 at its Polaris Forge 1 campus in Ellendale, North Dakota, adding 75MW of IT capacity across three 25MW data halls. The 150MW Building 2 is now fully operational, bringing the campus to 250MW. The site is fully leased to CoreWeave and is...
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United States
Virtus Raises £2.45bn to Fund Data Center Expansion European data center operator Virtus Data Centres has secured a £2.45 billion ($3.25bn) financing package from a consortium of 13 banks to support the development and expansion of its data centers across the UK and Europe, including its 78MW Sau...
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DataOne
Newly obtained public records show that a 300-megawatt data center under construction in Vineland, New Jersey, ran 62 unpermitted natural gas generators for nearly a year and released an estimated 140 tons of smog-forming nitrogen oxides before state regulators intervened, according to an investi...
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Skybox Datacenters
US data center developer Skybox and real estate firm Prologis have filed plans for another data center near Austin, Texas. The companies filed an application with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation for Skybox Hutto 4. Located at 3399 County Road 132 in Hutto, Williamson County, Buil...
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San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco startup NetworkOcean says it has become the first company to run customer AI workloads from a solar-powered floating data center. The company operated a single Nvidia H100 GPU powered by a 20kW solar array during a trial in San Francisco Bay. The customer was not disclosed. NetworkO...
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