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atNorth Plans €2B Salo Data Center With 75MW First Phase, 230MW Path

atNorth will develop a €2 billion data center, FIN05, in Salo, [Finland](https://baxtel.com/regions/finland), on a 28.6-hectare site, with 75 MW of power secured for the first phase and a path to a...

atNorth will develop a €2 billion data center, FIN05, in Salo, Finland, on a 28.6-hectare site, with 75 MW of power secured for the first phase and a path to as much as 230 MW. The Nordic operator announced the plan on October 5. Power will arrive through a new Fingrid substation.Exterior view of atNorth's operational FIN02 data center facility in Finland.The first phase is scheduled to go live in 2028. atNorth expects to invest roughly €2 billion in the site itself. Customer-owned servers an...

October 05, 2026

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Read Digi Power X Secures $200m Debt Financing for Alabama AI Data Center
Data center and energy infrastructure developer Digi Power X has secured a $200 million debt financing commitment, syndicated by Goldman Sachs and provided by an unnamed major lender. The funding w...
October 14, 2026

Digi Power X Secures $200m Debt Financing for Alabama AI Data Center

Alabama

Data center and energy infrastructure developer Digi Power X has secured a $200 million debt financing commitment, syndicated by Goldman Sachs and provided by an unnamed major lender. The funding will support its 40MW data center in Columbiana, Alabama, which is being built in two phases: 15MW by...

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Read Oregon Halts Data Center Permits Statewide Through July 2027
Oregon Governor Tina Kotek has directed the state Department of Environmental Quality to stop processing and issuing air and water pollution permits for new or expanded data centers until July 1, 2...
October 14, 2026

Oregon Halts Data Center Permits Statewide Through July 2027

Oregon

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek has directed the state Department of Environmental Quality to stop processing and issuing air and water pollution permits for new or expanded data centers until July 1, 2027. The order came in an Oct. 9 letter to DEQ Director Leah Feldon, which the governor's office did...

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Read LS Electric Wins $138m Switchgear Order for Bloom Fuel Cells at Pennsylvania Data Center
South Korean electrical equipment maker LS Electric has secured a 185.3 billion won ($138.5m) order from Bloom Energy to supply switchgear and distribution transformers for fuel cells at a Pennsylv...
October 14, 2026

LS Electric Wins $138m Switchgear Order for Bloom Fuel Cells at Pennsylvania Data Center

Pennsylvania

South Korean electrical equipment maker LS Electric has secured a 185.3 billion won ($138.5m) order from Bloom Energy to supply switchgear and distribution transformers for fuel cells at a Pennsylvania data center. Deliveries of the 38kV equipment are expected between April and July next year. Th...

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Read Aether Infrastructure Acquires Former Gearbox Factory in Strasbourg for AI Data Center
French AI consortium Aether Infrastructure has signed a preliminary agreement to acquire the former Dumarey Powerglide factory in Strasbourg’s Port du Rhin district for its first data center. Forme...
October 14, 2026

Aether Infrastructure Acquires Former Gearbox Factory in Strasbourg for AI Data Center

France

French AI consortium Aether Infrastructure has signed a preliminary agreement to acquire the former Dumarey Powerglide factory in Strasbourg’s Port du Rhin district for its first data center. Formed to develop two AI data centers under the European Commission’s AI gigafactories program, Aether ha...

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Read Microsoft Acquires 600 Acres for Data Center Development in Woodward, Iowa
Microsoft has acquired 600 acres in Woodward, around 30 miles northwest of Des Moines, Iowa, for a potential data center campus. The purchase was disclosed at a residents’ meeting on October 12, fo...
October 14, 2026

Microsoft Acquires 600 Acres for Data Center Development in Woodward, Iowa

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has acquired 600 acres in Woodward, around 30 miles northwest of Des Moines, Iowa, for a potential data center campus. The purchase was disclosed at a residents’ meeting on October 12, four days after the sale closed. The site lies between Highway 141 and Seminole Avenue, but developmen...

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Read AMD Signs Credit Support Deal for Fermi's 222 MW Project Matador
[Fermi America](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/fermi-america) on Tuesday [announced a credit support agreement](https://feeds.issuerdirect.com/news-release.html?newsid=5674092707179103&symbol=FRMI...
October 14, 2026

AMD Signs Credit Support Deal for Fermi's 222 MW Project Matador

Fermi America

Fermi America on Tuesday announced a credit support agreement with chipmaker AMD backing the first phase of its Project Matador energy and AI campus in Carson County, Texas, a 222 MW build the company described as a key milestone toward securingStaging and unloading of power generation equipment ...

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Read Memphis Council Delays Vote on Proposed Year-Long Data Center Moratorium Amid Protests
Memphis City Council has delayed a vote on a proposed 12-month data center moratorium for a second time, despite protests from more than 100 residents. The pause, proposed by councilor JB Smiley Jr...
October 14, 2026

Memphis Council Delays Vote on Proposed Year-Long Data Center Moratorium Amid Protests

Memphis

Memphis City Council has delayed a vote on a proposed 12-month data center moratorium for a second time, despite protests from more than 100 residents. The pause, proposed by councilor JB Smiley Jr., would allow officials to assess data centers’ social, health, and environmental impacts. Councilo...

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Read IREN Proposes 900MW Redbank Campus Near Wagga Wagga, Power Not Yet Secured
IREN outlined early plans this week for Redbank, a proposed 900 MW data center campus near Wagga Wagga in regional [New South Wales](https://baxtel.com/regions/new-south-wales). The Nasdaq-listed o...
October 14, 2026

IREN Proposes 900MW Redbank Campus Near Wagga Wagga, Power Not Yet Secured

IREN

IREN outlined early plans this week for Redbank, a proposed 900 MW data center campus near Wagga Wagga in regional New South Wales. The Nasdaq-listed operator took the proposal to the local community ahead of a scoping report due to the state's Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure a...

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Read Nebius Signs LOI With Volt for Rotterdam Data Center Capacity
AI cloud provider Nebius has signed an LOI with Volt to become the first offtaker at its planned AI Gigafactory in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The campus is planned to deliver 600MW across six buil...
October 13, 2026

Nebius Signs LOI With Volt for Rotterdam Data Center Capacity

Nebius

AI cloud provider Nebius has signed an LOI with Volt to become the first offtaker at its planned AI Gigafactory in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The campus is planned to deliver 600MW across six buildings, with the first phase comprising two 100MW data centers. The initial phase is expected to cost...

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Read Orcadian Energy Ends Data Center Deal for North Sea Gas Field
UK oil and gas firm Orcadian Energy has terminated an agreement with an undisclosed US digital infrastructure operator to develop a gas-powered offshore data center in the North Sea. The July agree...
October 13, 2026

Orcadian Energy Ends Data Center Deal for North Sea Gas Field

Orcadian Energy

UK oil and gas firm Orcadian Energy has terminated an agreement with an undisclosed US digital infrastructure operator to develop a gas-powered offshore data center in the North Sea. The July agreement proposed a data center of up to 200MW powered by gas from the Earlham and Orwell fields, estima...

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Read Memphis Council Delays 12-Month Data Center Moratorium Vote to Oct. 20
Memphis city councilors voted 7-5 on Oct. 6 to postpone a decision on a 12-month moratorium on new data centers, the second delay for a measure that would freeze approvals across a market now tied ...
October 13, 2026

Memphis Council Delays 12-Month Data Center Moratorium Vote to Oct. 20

xAI

Memphis city councilors voted 7-5 on Oct. 6 to postpone a decision on a 12-month moratorium on new data centers, the second delay for a measure that would freeze approvals across a market now tied to Elon Musk's AI buildout. The council moved the vote to Oct. 2Wide shot of the xAI data center fac...

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Read Third Yandex Data Center in Russia Hit by Drone Strike
A third Yandex data center in Russia has been hit by Ukrainian drone strikes within a week, forcing the company to suspend operations at its Vladimir facility. Yandex said no one was injured, but a...
October 13, 2026

Third Yandex Data Center in Russia Hit by Drone Strike

Yandex NV

A third Yandex data center in Russia has been hit by Ukrainian drone strikes within a week, forcing the company to suspend operations at its Vladimir facility. Yandex said no one was injured, but at least 84 services were affected, with Yandex Cloud operating in limited mode. The Sasovo and Kalug...

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Read 2026 Is the Year Texas Passes Virginia in Data Center Capacity
[Texas](https://baxtel.com/data-center/texas) now has more data center capacity operating and under construction than [Virginia](https://baxtel.com/data-center/virginia). Baxtel tracks 28.3 GW buil...
October 13, 2026

2026 Is the Year Texas Passes Virginia in Data Center Capacity

Texas

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 thiEditorial exterior view of a mo...

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Read NTT Data in Final Talks for 500MW, $6.3B Anthropic Data Center in Osaka
[NTT Data Group](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/ntt) is in the final stages of talks to build a data center in [Osaka](https://baxtel.com/regions/osaka) for [Anthropic](https://baxtel.com/data-cen...
October 13, 2026

NTT Data in Final Talks for 500MW, $6.3B Anthropic Data Center in Osaka

NTT

NTT Data Group is in the final stages of talks to build a data center in Osaka for Anthropic, Nikkei reported Tuesday. Construction could cost up to 1 trillion yen ($6.3 billion), and the site would draw Official NTT rendering of its large-scale Kansai data center campus development in western Ja...

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Read Nebius Signs LOI to Anchor VOLT's 600MW Rotterdam AI Gigafactory
[VOLT](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/volt-data-centers) has lined up [Nebius](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/nebius) as the first off-taker at its [Rotterdam AI Gigafactory](https://fromvolt.com...
October 13, 2026

Nebius Signs LOI to Anchor VOLT's 600MW Rotterdam AI Gigafactory

Nebius

VOLT has lined up Nebius as the first off-taker at its Rotterdam AI Gigafactory, the anchor customer the Dutch developer needs before it can take a 600 MW campus at the Port of Rotterdam to lenders. The letter of intent, announced Monday, covers a long-term lease, with a first phase of two buildi...

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Read FERC Backs PJM Data Center Registry, Rejects Curtailment Plan
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [approved a registry of large electricity users](https://elibrary.ferc.gov/eLibrary/docketsheet?docket_number=er26-3515), including data centers, in an Oct....
October 13, 2026

FERC Backs PJM Data Center Registry, Rejects Curtailment Plan

United States

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved a registry of large electricity users, including data centers, in an Oct. 9 order in Docket ER26-3515, but rejected PJM Interconnection's plan to curtail those customers ahead of other demand response when the grid is stressed. The order keeps PJM...

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Read NTT Data Nears $6.3B, 500MW Data Center Deal For Anthropic In Osaka
NTT Data Group is in the final stages of talks to build a data center in Osaka Prefecture for Anthropic, in what would be the U.S. AI developer's first dedicated facility in Japan. The project coul...
October 13, 2026

NTT Data Nears $6.3B, 500MW Data Center Deal For Anthropic In Osaka

NTT

NTT Data Group is in the final stages of talks to build a data center in Osaka Prefecture for Anthropic, in what would be the U.S. AI developer's first dedicated facility in Japan. The project could draw up to 500 MW and cost as much as ¥1 trillion, abouArchitectural rendering of an NTT Kansai/Ke...

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Read SoftBank Explores Potential AI Data Center Project in Borneo
SoftBank Group, Singaporean technology company Grab Holdings, and Malaysian oil and gas firm Petroleum Sarawak Berhad (Petros) have signed a framework agreement to explore an AI and digital infrast...
October 13, 2026

SoftBank Explores Potential AI Data Center Project in Borneo

Softbank Corp.

SoftBank Group, Singaporean technology company Grab Holdings, and Malaysian oil and gas firm Petroleum Sarawak Berhad (Petros) have signed a framework agreement to explore an AI and digital infrastructure platform in Sarawak, Malaysia. Details of any planned data center development have not been ...

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Read SWI Raises €800m to Fund Data Center Expansion
European real estate investor SWI has raised €800 million ($892.4m) through a capital increase involving institutional investors and new share issuance. The Euronext Amsterdam-listed company will u...
October 12, 2026

SWI Raises €800m to Fund Data Center Expansion

SWI Group

European real estate investor SWI has raised €800 million ($892.4m) through a capital increase involving institutional investors and new share issuance. The Euronext Amsterdam-listed company will use the funds to expand its data center and AI compute platforms across Europe and the US, including ...

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Read Microsoft Trims Mount Pleasant Data Center Plan To Seven Buildings From Nine
Microsoft has cut the number of buildings planned for the 791-acre Durand Avenue portion of its Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, data center campus to seven from nine, reducing the parcel's projected tax...
October 12, 2026

Microsoft Trims Mount Pleasant Data Center Plan To Seven Buildings From Nine

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has cut the number of buildings planned for the 791-acre Durand Avenue portion of its Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, data center campus to seven from nine, reducing the parcel's projected taxable value by about 24 percent, or nearly $1.9 billion, the Milwaukee Business Journal reported on M...

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