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Read FirstEnergy Data Center Pipeline Reaches 26GW With West Virginia At 6GW
FirstEnergy's data center pipeline grew to 26 GW in the third quarter. The pipeline expanded 4.8% from the prior quarter, and the West Virginia portion climbed to 6 GW from 4.3 GW. Monongahela Powe...

FirstEnergy Data Center Pipeline Reaches 26GW With West Virginia At 6GW

October 30, 2026 West Virginia

FirstEnergy's data center pipeline grew to 26 GW in the third quarter. The pipeline expanded 4.8% from the prior quarter, and the West Virginia portion climbed to 6 GW from 4.3 GW. Monongahela Power and Potomac Edison, the FirstEnergy utilities behind the Maidsville Energy Center, expect a final...

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Read Google Identified as User Behind 1,200MW Goochland Data Center Campus
Google is considering a 1,200MW data center campus on about 1,000 acres in Goochland County, Virginia, the county confirmed on Oct. 28. The [county's announcement](https://www.goochlandva.us/) name...

Google Identified as User Behind 1,200MW Goochland Data Center Campus

October 29, 2026 Google

Google is considering a 1,200MW data center campus on about 1,000 acres in Goochland County, Virginia, the county confirmed on Oct. 28. The county's announcement named Google as the company behind a project that appeared in Virginia regulatory filings in July without an identified owner. Google...

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Read NTT Data Adds AI Factories In Paris And Singapore, Bringing Total To Five
NTT Data has launched AI Factory GPU clusters in [Paris](https://baxtel.com/regions/paris) and [Singapore](https://baxtel.com/regions/singapore), expanding its network of AI evaluation environments...

NTT Data Adds AI Factories In Paris And Singapore, Bringing Total To Five

October 29, 2026 Singapore

NTT Data has launched AI Factory GPU clusters in Paris and Singapore, expanding its network of AI evaluation environments to five sites. The company announced the expansion on October 27, and the new facilities join AI Factories in Plano, Texas, and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Data Center Dynamics...

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Read Oracle To Deploy Google TPUs On OCI In Multi-Gigawatt Deal
Oracle will sell Google's Tensor Processing Units through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure under a deal the companies [announced](https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/ai-world-oracle-brings-google-t...

Oracle To Deploy Google TPUs On OCI In Multi-Gigawatt Deal

October 28, 2026 Google

Oracle will sell Google's Tensor Processing Units through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure under a deal the companies announced on Oct. 27. The agreement makes OCI the first hyperscale cloud platform outside Google to offer the chips, Google Cloud said. TPU capacity on OCI is scheduled to become...

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Read Amazon Settles With Two Former AWS Managers Over Data Center Kickbacks
Amazon has settled its civil claims against two former AWS real estate managers it accused of taking kickbacks on Northern Virginia data center deals. The company told a federal court on October 20...

Amazon Settles With Two Former AWS Managers Over Data Center Kickbacks

October 27, 2026 Northern Virginia

Amazon has settled its civil claims against two former AWS real estate managers it accused of taking kickbacks on Northern Virginia data center deals. The company told a federal court on October 20 that it had reached the agreement with Carl Nelson and Casey Kirschner, less than two weeks before...

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Read Hermantown Sets Friday Vote On Google Data Center After Protests Halt Meetings
Hermantown has moved its City Council vote on Google's proposed data center to Friday after protests shut down two meetings. The city scheduled the session for 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 30 with the same si...

Hermantown Sets Friday Vote On Google Data Center After Protests Halt Meetings

October 27, 2026 Google

Hermantown has moved its City Council vote on Google's proposed data center to Friday after protests shut down two meetings. The city scheduled the session for 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 30 with the same six resolutions from the canceled Oct. 27 agenda, according to a city press release. The resolutions...

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Read STTGDC Secures JPY93 Billion Green Loan For 70.8MW Tokyo Campus
STTGDC has [secured a JPY93 billion green loan](https://www.sttgdc.com/newsroom/sttgdc-secures-jpy93-billion-green-loan-support-expansion-tokyo-data-centre-campus) to fit out the two buildings at i...

STTGDC Secures JPY93 Billion Green Loan For 70.8MW Tokyo Campus

October 27, 2026 Tokyo

STTGDC has secured a JPY93 billion green loan to fit out the two buildings at its 70.8MW data center campus in Inzai City, near Tokyo. The facility is worth about US$589.9 million, STTGDC said on Oct. 27. STTGDC develops, owns and operates both buildings. The company calls them TYO1 and TYO2, and...

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Read SWI Compute Launches With 3.6GW to Build NVIDIA AI Factories in Europe
SWI Compute [launched on Oct. 26](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/swi-compute-emerges-from-stealth-to-turn-gigawatts-of-power-into-nvidia-ai-factories-starting-in-europe-302918810.html) to...

SWI Compute Launches With 3.6GW to Build NVIDIA AI Factories in Europe

October 26, 2026 England

SWI Compute launched on Oct. 26 to build and operate NVIDIA AI factories, starting with a 30MW site in the UK. The company is part of SWI Group, the Euronext Amsterdam-listed investment group that has secured 3.6GW of power capacity across Europe and the US. SWI Group supplies the land, grid...

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Read OpenAI Seeks Permit To Fill 72 Acres Of Wetlands At Project Camellia
OpenAI has applied for a federal permit to fill 72 acres of wetlands at its Project Camellia data center campus in Georgia. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Savannah District is taking public comm...

OpenAI Seeks Permit To Fill 72 Acres Of Wetlands At Project Camellia

October 26, 2026 Georgia

OpenAI has applied for a federal permit to fill 72 acres of wetlands at its Project Camellia data center campus in Georgia. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Savannah District is taking public comments on the application through Nov. 4, the Savannah Morning News reported. The campus is planned...

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Read Amazon Plans Second Missouri Campus With Up To 15 Data Center Buildings
[Amazon Web Services](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/amazon-aws) plans up to 15 more data center buildings on as much as 890 acres in [Missouri](https://baxtel.com/regions/missouri)'s Montgomery C...

Amazon Plans Second Missouri Campus With Up To 15 Data Center Buildings

October 26, 2026 Missouri

Amazon Web Services plans up to 15 more data center buildings on as much as 890 acres in Missouri's Montgomery County, a second campus that would sit closer to Danville, several miles from the Project Green build already under construction near New Florence. Amazon representative Brian Bolton...

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Read Google Apologizes And Halts Work At Two Finnish Data Center Sites
Finland's Licensing and Supervision Authority has told Google subsidiary Tuike Finland to keep preparatory work at its [Muhos](https://baxtel.com/data-center/google-muhos) and [Kajaani](https://bax...

Google Apologizes And Halts Work At Two Finnish Data Center Sites

October 26, 2026 Google

Finland's Licensing and Supervision Authority has told Google subsidiary Tuike Finland to keep preparatory work at its Muhos and Kajaani data center sites suspended. The agency set an Oct. 23 deadline for felling, excavation, blasting and road building to stop at both sites, according to its...

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Read Fireworks Reserves $94.4M Nvidia B300 Capacity at Forum Edge AI Dallas Site
Fireworks has reserved three years of Nvidia B300 GPU capacity at Forum Edge AI's powered data center in Dallas. The 36-month agreement carries a combined total contract value of approximately $94....

Fireworks Reserves $94.4M Nvidia B300 Capacity at Forum Edge AI Dallas Site

October 26, 2026 Dallas

Fireworks has reserved three years of Nvidia B300 GPU capacity at Forum Edge AI's powered data center in Dallas. The 36-month agreement carries a combined total contract value of approximately $94.4 million, Forum Edge AI said on Oct. 26, reflecting GPU capacity and associated CPU management node...

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Read Neysa to Deploy 9,000 GPUs at STT GDC's Noida 2 Data Center
Neysa will deploy GPU infrastructure supporting up to 9,000 GPUs at [STT Noida 2](https://baxtel.com/data-center/stt-noida-2), an [STT GDC](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/st-telemedia-global-data-...

Neysa to Deploy 9,000 GPUs at STT GDC's Noida 2 Data Center

October 24, 2026 New Delhi / Noida

Neysa will deploy GPU infrastructure supporting up to 9,000 GPUs at STT Noida 2, an STT GDC data center in Uttar Pradesh, India. STT GDC announced the deployment on Oct. 21 as the first phase of a multi-year working relationship between the two companies. ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT...

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Read Google Expands Voltus Capacity Deal To More Than 1GW In PJM
Google will buy 1,070 MW of additional flexible capacity from Voltus in the PJM grid region. The companies [announced](https://www.voltus.co/press/google-voltus-1gw) the expansion of their Bring Yo...

Google Expands Voltus Capacity Deal To More Than 1GW In PJM

October 23, 2026 Google

Google will buy 1,070 MW of additional flexible capacity from Voltus in the PJM grid region. The companies announced the expansion of their Bring Your Own Capacity agreement on Oct. 22, adding 1,070 MW to the 100 MW they committed in June. Voltus aggregates flexible capacity from homes and...

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Read ZTE Launches M8000 Micro-Module for AI Racks up to 250kW
ZTE launched the ZXEDC M8000 Intelligent Computing Micro-Module at Data Center World Asia in [Singapore](https://baxtel.com/regions/singapore), an integrated IT pod built for AI data centers. The [...

ZTE Launches M8000 Micro-Module for AI Racks up to 250kW

October 23, 2026 Singapore

ZTE launched the ZXEDC M8000 Intelligent Computing Micro-Module at Data Center World Asia in Singapore, an integrated IT pod built for AI data centers. The company announced the product in a release published Oct. 20 (ZTE). The module combines an enclosed cold aisle, liquid-cooled racks, network...

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Read Crusoe Takes 40MW Second Phase At Polar's Hydro-Powered Norway Campus
[Crusoe](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/crusoe) will take a second, larger building at [Polar Data Centers](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/polar-dc)' Tørdal campus in Norway. Polar announced the ...

Crusoe Takes 40MW Second Phase At Polar's Hydro-Powered Norway Campus

October 22, 2026 Norway

Crusoe will take a second, larger building at Polar Data Centers' Tørdal campus in Norway. Polar announced the expansion on Oct. 21 (announcement). The new building, DRA02, will add 40MW of liquid-cooled critical IT capacity on hydroelectric power and is due online in late 2027. Crusoe plans to...

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Read Microsoft Files for 422MW Three-Building Data Center Campus in Rome, Georgia
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](https://dca....

Microsoft Files for 422MW Three-Building Data Center Campus in Rome, Georgia

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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Read Cleveland Extends Data Center Moratorium Through January 29, 2027
Cleveland City Council voted on the night of Oct. 19 to extend the city's moratorium on new data centers through Jan. 29, 2027, or until council enacts permanent rules. The extension keeps zoning p...

Cleveland Extends Data Center Moratorium Through January 29, 2027

October 21, 2026 Ohio

Cleveland City Council voted on the night of Oct. 19 to extend the city's moratorium on new data centers through Jan. 29, 2027, or until council enacts permanent rules. The extension keeps zoning permits and occupancy certificates frozen for new standalone data centers and also covers expansions...

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Read Amazon Pledges €16B For Germany In 2027, Including €4.8B For AWS Frankfurt
Amazon plans to invest more than €16 billion ($18 billion) in Germany in 2027, including €4.8 billion to expand the [AWS Europe (Frankfurt) region](https://press.aboutamazon.com/de/2026/10/invest-i...

Amazon Pledges €16B For Germany In 2027, Including €4.8B For AWS Frankfurt

October 21, 2026 Frankfurt

Amazon plans to invest more than €16 billion ($18 billion) in Germany in 2027, including €4.8 billion to expand the AWS Europe (Frankfurt) region, the company said on Oct. 20. Chancellor Friedrich Merz and federal economy and energy minister Katherina Reiche appeared with Amazon chief global...

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Read Amazon Drops 800,000 Sq Ft Data Center Campus In Loudoun County Deal
Amazon Data Services has withdrawn its application to build four data centers on the former George Washington University campus in Ashburn, Virginia, ending a months-long standoff with Loudoun Coun...

Amazon Drops 800,000 Sq Ft Data Center Campus In Loudoun County Deal

October 21, 2026 Ashburn: Data Center Alley

Amazon Data Services has withdrawn its application to build four data centers on the former George Washington University campus in Ashburn, Virginia, ending a months-long standoff with Loudoun County. Officials announced the agreement, called Project Potomac Promise, at the Oct. 20 Board of...

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