October 22, 2026 Atlanta
Microsoft filed for state review on October 20 of a three-building data center campus in Rome, Georgia, with 422MW of planned capacity. The Development of Regional Impact application covers 349 acres at 0 Huffaker Road and 1,659,000 square feet of floor space. Microsoft owns the land, bought in...
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October 19, 2026 New York
Alcoa Corporation has agreed to sell parts of its former Massena East smelter in upstate New York to an unnamed data center developer for up to $315 million. The buyer was not disclosed, though cryptominer NYDIG has previously been linked to the site, where an affiliate has filed plans for a data...
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October 15, 2026 Northern Virginia
State Sen. Russet Perry on Tuesday released draft legislation that would halt approvals for new data centers across Virginia for three years, escalating the political fight over the industry's growth in the world's largest data center market. Senate Bill 843 would take effect July 1, 2027 and...
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October 13, 2026 Northern Virginia
Texas now has more data center capacity operating and under construction than Virginia. Baxtel tracks 28.3 GW built or building in Texas, against 17.8 GW in Virginia. On capacity already online, Virginia still leads, 12.3 GW to 11.1 GW. If projects scheduled for this year deliver on time, Texas...
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October 06, 2026 California
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...
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October 04, 2026 New Jersey
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...
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October 03, 2026 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....
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August 12, 2026 California
A real estate firm is planning to convert a former supercomputing facility in Oakland, California, into a 20MW data center. First reported by BizJournal, Behring Cos. plans to redevelop 415 20th Street, a four-story building that once housed the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Oakland...
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August 07, 2026 Dallas
PowerHouse Data Centers is planning a new campus near Fort Worth, Texas. First reported by NBC, engineering firm Kimley-Horn has filed plans for a data center on about 88 acres in Westlake, north of Fort Worth. The proposed site is at 13580 Denton Highway, near US Highway 377 and Westport...
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July 30, 2026 New Jersey
Data centre developer Hexa Builders is seeking $300 million in damages from Monroe Township, New Jersey, after officials rejected its proposed 1 million sq ft data centre in May. The lawsuit, filed in New Jersey Superior Court, alleges the township council and planning board violated multiple...
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July 15, 2026 California
Eight Form has withdrawn its proposal to replace a Hyatt Place hotel in El Segundo, California, with a data center. The plan involved demolishing the hotel at 750 N. Nash Street to build a five-story, 230,780 sq ft (21,440 sqm) facility with 50MW of capacity. Eight Form withdrew the proposal...
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July 09, 2026 California
Real estate firm Prologis is planning a 99MW data center in San Jose, California. The proposed three-story facility would span 516,000 sq ft (47,935 sqm) across a 15-acre site on Silver Creek Valley Road and include an on-site substation. Construction is expected to take around two years, with...
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July 07, 2026 California
Applications have been submitted for the development of a 99 MW data center in California. The proposed facility would be located near the intersection of US Highway 395 and State Route 178 in Inyokern, an unincorporated community within Kern County, California. The single-story, 238,000 sq ft...
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July 03, 2026 New Jersey
New Jersey lawmakers have passed a bill directing the state’s Board of Public Utilities to create a dedicated tariff for data centers with capacities of 50MW or more, aimed at protecting other ratepayers from rising costs linked to new developments. The legislation, S731, replaces an earlier...
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April 22, 2026 Dallas
US data center firm DataBank has secured new financing to support the build-out of three data centers in Dallas, Texas. The company this week announced it has obtained a $2 billion loan to fund construction of the first three facilities at its new Red Oak campus. DataBank said the deal represents...
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April 11, 2026 California
A 600MW data center could be developed in Coachella, Southern California. Developer DMK Projects is proposing to build the facility on a 240-acre site at the corner of 52nd Avenue and Fillmore Street.Project documents presented at a City Council meeting on February 11 indicate that DMK plans for...
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April 02, 2026 New York
A cannabis firm is exploring plans to redevelop a former golf course in New York into a data center campus. OTC-listed Weed Inc. said it aims to repurpose its subsidiary’s 44-acre Sugar Hill Golf Course site in Chautauqua County, near Lake Erie, though full project details have not been...
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February 21, 2026 New Jersey
Local authorities in New Brunswick, New Jersey, voted on Wednesday against allowing the construction of a data center on a plot of land slated for redevelopment, instead requiring that a park be built on the site. The New Brunswick City Council was reviewing a proposal for the Jersey-Sandford...
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February 06, 2026 California
A new bill has been introduced in the California Senate aimed at regulating the expansion of large load data centers across the state and protecting ratepayers from footing the bill for the generation and transmission infrastructure needed to power them.Introduced by Senator Sasha Renée Pérez...
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January 13, 2026 New Jersey
The New Jersey Senate has advanced a bill that would create new tariff classes for “large load” data centers in an effort to protect ratepayers in the state from cost increases.The bill, cosponsored by ten Democrat lawmakers, would require public electrical utilities in the state to submit...
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