Data Center News

Wisconsin State Assembly Passes Bill Creating New Rate Class for Data Centers

Wisconsin lawmakers have passed a bill that aims to protect ratepayers from cost increases tied to data center expansion. The Wisconsin State Assembly passed AB 840 by a vote of 53-44. The bill sets out several protections for ratepayers, including preventing data center operators from passing...

Planning Permission for Buckinghamshire Data Center Likely to be Quashed

United Kingdom

The UK Government has admitted that it made a “serious logical error” when granting planning permission to a data center in Buckinghamshire, making it likely that the decision will be quashed, reports Bloomberg.The Buckinghamshire Council had already refused this specific data center proposal ...

KDDI Launches Data Center in Osaka, Japan

KDDI

Japanese telecoms firm KKDI has launched the first phase of a new data center in Osaka. The company this week announced that operations at the Osaka Sakai Data Center, located near the Osaka metropolitan area, started on January 22.The four-story facility, totaling 57,000 sqm (613,542 sq ft), ...

Humain and Infra Set up $1.2bn Financing Package to Fund 250MW of Data Center Space

Humain

Data center firm Humain and Saudi Arabia’s National Infrastructure Fund (Infra) has set up a financing agreement for the $1.2 billion it needs to build 250MW of data center capacity in the Kingdom.According to the partners, the agreement outlines non-binding financing terms for Humain’s develo...

Sapience AI Secures $8.8m in Funding

Slovakian AI cloud startup Sapience AI has received investment from Southeast Asian holding company and e-commerce platform Society Pass Inc.Society Pass has made a minority investment worth $8.8 million in Sapience AI with the aim of expanding its presence in Europe. The investment marks Soci...

Sharon AI Secures $500m Debt Facility from USD.AI

United States

Aussie neocloud Sharon AI has secured a $500 million debt facility to expand its AI infrastructure in Australia and the wider Asia Pacific region. The debt facility has been provided by USD.AI's on-chain credit system and will enable Sharon AI to deploy GPUs financed with stablecoin liquidity....

Fermi America Hit with Class Action Lawsuit

Fermi America

Fermi America, the company behind the proposed up to 11GW data center campus in Amarillo, Texas, has been hit with a class action lawsuit. The suit filed by national plaintiffs' law firm Berger Montague PC was made on behalf of investors who purchased or otherwise acquired Fermi securities dur...

Google Confirmed as Company Behind 500,000 Square Feet Data Center

The Scioto County Commission has confirmed that Google is the company behind a 500,000 sq ft (46,452 sqm), $1 billion data center project in Franklin Furnace, Ohio. Google's identity was revealed after the commission awarded the cloud giant a tax abatement on the project.Google has been given ...

PACE Taps Mace to Construct 168MW UK Data Center Portfolio

United Kingdom

UK construction firm Mace Construct has been tapped by Pathfinder Clean Energy Limited (PACE) to construct a portfolio of data centers with a combined capacity of 168MW. The two companies signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding under which Mace will support the development of three da...

180-acre Data Center Set to be Built in Lyon Township, Michigan

Michigan

A data center campus spanning 180 acres is set to be built in Lyon Township, Michigan. If the data center – known as Project Flex – is built, it will be located on the east side of Milford Road, south of the Huron Valley Trail crossing and south of New Hudson Drive West. It will consist of six...

Iron Mountain Breaks Ground on 85MW Data Center in Mumbai, India

Colocation firm Iron Mountain has broken ground on its planned 85MW data center campus in Mumbai, India. An opening date for the facility has not been disclosed, but once complete, it will complement Iron Mountain’s two existing facilities in Mumbai, which offer a total of 8.3MW.Writing on Lin...

Applied Digital Starts Work on 430MW Data Center Campus

Applied Digital

Data center firm Applied Digital this week announced that it has broken ground on Delta Forge 1, an AI factory campus located in a “strategic southern US market.” Delta Forge 1 is designed to support an initial 430MW of total utility power, enabling up to 300MW of IT load, with the ability to ...

Internet Services Partially Restored in Uganda Following General Election

Some Internet services have been restored in Uganda following the country's general election last week. Internet services were shut down in Uganda ahead of the election by Uganda's Communications Commission "to mitigate the rapid spread of misinformation."He saw off competition from former pop...

Instapay Technologies selects Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure

Malaysian fintech Instapay Technologies has selected Alibaba Cloud to support its payment platform. Alibaba Cloud has been selected to enable Instapay to scale quickly and reliably, while meeting regulatory requirements. The fintech is regulated by Bank Negara Malaysia.Speaking on the agreemen...

WOM Chile Completes the First Phase of its 5G rollout

WOM Chile has completed the delivery of all 366 mandatory locations named in its 5G rollout. Mandatory Locations are areas defined by the Chilean government as priorities for mobile connectivity and are part of the legal obligations associated with the allocation of 5G spectrum. “This mileston...

NextDC Receives Development Approval for M4 campus in Melbourne, Australia

NextDC has received 'Development Approval' from the Victorian Government for its upcoming M4 campus in Melbourne, Australia. NextDC's CEO and MD, Craig Scroggie, revealed the milestone in a post to LinkedIn late last week.The site is planned to host an AI Factory: a liquid-cooled facility engi...

Top Data Center News for 12th-17th January, 2026

United States

Avaio to Develop $6bn Data Center Campus in Little Rock, ArkansasAvaio Digital Partners this week announced plans for a new data center hub near Little Rock in Pulaski County, Arkansas. The aim for the 760-acre site is for a major pole of data center capacity and an engine of sustained economi...

Meta Inks Solar PPA with Origis Energy in Texas

Texas

Social media giant Meta has signed a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with US renewable energy developer Origis Energy to offtake power from a solar plant in Texas."We are thrilled to partner with Origis Energy and bring an additional 240 MWac of solar energy to the local grid. With th...

BharathCloud selects JLL as partner for $100m AI cloud expansion plan

India / Bhārata

Indian AI cloud company BharathCloud has teamed up with JLL for its planned expansion across India and "select international locations."  BharathCloud plans to invest the $100m over the next five years, subject to board approvals, with JLL set to help the company select colocation sites and wi...

Soluna Partners with Metrobloks for Texas Campus

HPC and cryptomine data center firm Soluna Holdings this week announced that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Metrobloks, a data center developer and operator focused on AI-ready infrastructure, to enter into a co-development partnership to build Project Kati 2.“Project Kati ...