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Grain Backs Parent Company of Prime Data Centers

Grain Management has taken a stake in the owner of data center firm Prime Data Centers. The digital infrastructure-focused investment firm this week announced it has completed a significant preferred equity investment in Data Realty Holding Corp., the founding and controlling shareholder of Pr...

April 09, 2026

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Top Data Center News for 30th March - 4th April, 2026

Microsoft commits $1bn to cloud and AI infrastructure in ThailandMicrosoft will invest more than $1 billion in cloud and AI infrastructure in Thailand over the next two years, to be used in expanding the company's data center footprint, upskill local talent, and invest in cybersecurity and sov...

April 06, 2026

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Microsoft Signs Gas Deal with Chevron, Engine No. 1 for AI Data Center power

Microsoft, Chevron, and Engine No. 1 have signed an exclusivity agreement that could provide up to 2.5GW of natural gas power for a new data center, though commercial terms have yet to be finalized.Bloomberg first reported that the agreement is linked to a proposed $7 billion natural gas power...

April 02, 2026

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Microsoft Commits $1bn to Cloud and AI Infrastructure in Thailand

Microsoft will invest more than $1 billion in cloud and AI infrastructure in Thailand over the next two years, vice chair and president Brad Smith said after a meeting with Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul. The investment will be used to expand the company's data center footprint, upski...

April 02, 2026

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft, Armada Deploy Azure Local on Galleon Modular Data Centers

Microsoft and Armada are partnering to integrate their edge offerings. Azure Local will be deployable in Armada’s Galleon modular edge data centers, alongside the company’s Edge Platform. The integration will allow customers to run workloads in intermittently connected, contested, or fully dis...

April 01, 2026

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Prime Data Centers Plans 550MW Campus in Esbjerg, Denmark

US data center firm Prime is expanding into Europe with a new development in Denmark. The company announced plans this week for a campus in Esbjerg in partnership with Brunswick Real Estate.The company is aiming to develop a 640,000 sqm (6.88 million sq ft) campus – known as ESB01 – on land al...

March 27, 2026

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Microsoft Drops NDAs for Ddata Center Projects

Microsoft has pledged to stop requiring local governments to sign nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) for its data center projects.In a blog post, the company said this commitment builds on its “Community-First AI Infrastructure Plan,” which promises to prevent data centers from raising electricit...

March 19, 2026

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Microsoft and Meta Commit to $50bn in New Data Center Leases in Latest Quarter

Microsoft and Meta have each committed around $50 billion to additional data center leases in the latest quarter. According to Bloomberg, citing an analysis of quarterly filings, the new deals push total future data center lease commitments by cloud companies and hyperscalers to more than $700...

March 12, 2026

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Meta Signs Pre-development Agreement for Data Center in Beloit, Wisconsin

Meta Platforms has reportedly signed a pre-development agreement with the Town of Beloit for a potential data center project in southern Wisconsin. According to the Beloit Daily News, the facility could be built on a 430-acre site located between Town Line Road, South Prairie Avenue, and East ...

March 05, 2026

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Meta Plans to Deploy 366MW of Modular Gas-fired Units to Support a 1GW Data Center in El Paso, Texas

The 1GW project, which broke ground in October, would be powered by 813 modular generators, slated to come online by 2027. The units are expected to cost $473 million. The proposal has also drawn opposition from environmental and community organizations. For instance, the Sembrando Esperanza C...

February 23, 2026

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Meta Unveils Plans for a 1GW Data Center Campus in Indiana

Meta is building a gigawatt-scale data center campus near Indianapolis, Indiana. “This facility represents an investment of over $10 billion in data center infrastructure and the surrounding community, one of our largest infrastructure investments to date,” the company said.“The data center w...

February 11, 2026

Meta

Perplexity Signs $750m Cloud Agreement with Microsoft

AI-powered search engine Perplexity has signed a three year $750 million cloud computing agreement with Microsoft, reports Bloomberg. This is the first cloud agreement Perplexity has signed outside of Amazon Web Services (AWS), of which it has a long-term partnership.“We are excited to partner...

January 27, 2026

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Microsoft Plans $400m Data Center in Castroville, Texas

Microsoft is planning to invest $400 million in a data center project in Castroville, Texas. Dubbed SAT 82, the data center will be located at 2580 Farm to Market Road, 471 N in Castroville, a town to the west of San Antonio. The data center will span 195,670 sq ft (18,178 sqm) across one sto...

January 08, 2026

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Microsoft Signs Two PPAs with Iberdrola in Spain

Microsoft has signed two Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) with Iberdrola in Spain representing 150MW of contracted capacity. The power is tied to two onshore wind power projects in the country, the 94MW Iglesias Wind Farm, in Burgos, Castilla y León and the 101MW El Escudo Wind Farm, in Cantabr...

December 22, 2025

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Microsoft to Purchase CO2 Removal Credits from InPlanet

Microsoft has signed a carbon removal deal with Brazilian enhanced rock weathering (ERW) firm InPlanet for more than 28,500 tons of carbon credits. The removals will be generated through InPlanet’s ERW program in Brazil, which is the largest in the country, spanning more than 12,000 hectares o...

December 20, 2025

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Empyrion Eyes 200MW Data Center Campus in Johor, Malaysia

APAC data center firm Empyrion Digital is expanding into Malaysia, with the company this week announcing plans for a 200MW campus in Johor. Located in Nusajaya within the SiLC Industrial Cluster of Johor, the 34.9-acre MY1 campus is set to feature five 40MW buildings, with the first phase ener...

December 13, 2025

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Microsoft Signs 3.6 Million Ton Carbon Removal Deal

Microsoft has signed a carbon removal deal with low-carbon fuel firm Beaver Lake Renewable Energy for 3.6 million tons of carbon removal units (CRU) over a 12-year period. The carbon removal units will be delivered from the company’s Beaver Lake biomethanol plant near Pineville, Louisiana, whi...

December 10, 2025

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Microsoft Plans $17.5bn AI Infrastructure Investment in India

Microsoft revealed today that it would be spending $17.5 billion on AI infrastructure in India during the next four years starting in 2026, as well as a $5.42bn pledge to Canada in the next two years. A post on X by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said: "Thank you, PM Narendra Modi, for an inspiri...

December 09, 2025

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Microsoft Receives Approval for Data Center Campuses in Aragón, Spain

Microsoft has received the initial approval for its planned data center campuses in the Aragón region in Spain, dubbed MSFT Region, that will see the development of three campuses in La Muela, Villamayor de Gállego, and Zaragoza, as well as their interconnection via fiber optics.The project is...

November 12, 2025

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Microsoft Reveals Plans for Cloud Region in Johor, Malaysia

Microsoft has detailed its plans for a second cloud region in Johor, Malaysia, just months after Microsoft launched its Kuala Lumpur cloud region. The region will be known as Southeast Asia 3, and was first revealed by the company in October. YB Gobind Singh Deo, Malaysia’s Minister of Digital...

November 08, 2025

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