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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 Microsoft Exits Nscale's 50MW Loughton Data Center Deal In Essex
Microsoft has ended its agreement to anchor [Nscale](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/nscale)'s Loughton AI campus in Essex, the 50MW facility that UK ministers promoted as the country's largest sov...
October 19, 2026

Microsoft Exits Nscale's 50MW Loughton Data Center Deal In Essex

Nscale

Microsoft has ended its agreement to anchor Nscale's Loughton AI campus in Essex, the 50MW facility that UK ministers promoted as the country's largest sovereign AI data center when it was announced in 2025. The withdrawal, first reported by The Telegraph on Oct. 18, leaves the £2bn project witho...

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Read Anthropic Signs First Canada Lease at EverWind's C$10B Nova Scotia Campus
Halifax-based energy developer [EverWind](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/everwind) on Friday announced more than C$10 billion (about US$7.1 billion) in private investment for a data center campus ...
October 19, 2026

Anthropic Signs First Canada Lease at EverWind's C$10B Nova Scotia Campus

EverWind

Halifax-based energy developer EverWind on Friday announced more than C$10 billion (about US$7.1 billion) in private investment for a data center campus at its Point Tupper industrial site in Richmond County, Nova Scotia, and Anthropic confirmed it signed a long-term lease for the first phase, th...

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Read Hillwood Polska Revises Polish Data Center Plans After Local Opposition
Hillwood Polska has revised plans for a 130MW data center campus in Reguły, southwest of Warsaw, following local opposition. The buildings will be smaller and located farther from residential areas...
October 19, 2026

Hillwood Polska Revises Polish Data Center Plans After Local Opposition

Poland

Hillwood Polska has revised plans for a 130MW data center campus in Reguły, southwest of Warsaw, following local opposition. The buildings will be smaller and located farther from residential areas. “We carefully considered residents' opinions and treated them as an important element of the proj...

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Read Microsoft To Fund 1,100MW Of Indiana Generation Under 20-Year NiSource Deal
Microsoft will pay for all the generation and transmission needed to serve its La Porte, Indiana data center campus under a 20-year electric service agreement with [NiSource](https://www.nisource.c...
October 19, 2026

Microsoft To Fund 1,100MW Of Indiana Generation Under 20-Year NiSource Deal

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft will pay for all the generation and transmission needed to serve its La Porte, Indiana data center campus under a 20-year electric service agreement with NiSource announced Oct. 16. Service starts in 2028. The utility's unregulated affiliate, NiSource GeDirectly depicts the official gro...

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Read Carrier Connect Lands Customer for 4MW Data Center Near Atlanta, Georgia
Carrier Connect Data Solutions has secured a customer for its newly acquired 4MW data center at 1001 Windward Concourse in Alpharetta, Georgia. The five-year agreement could generate CA$88.9 millio...
October 19, 2026

Carrier Connect Lands Customer for 4MW Data Center Near Atlanta, Georgia

Carrier Connect Data Solutions

Carrier Connect Data Solutions has secured a customer for its newly acquired 4MW data center at 1001 Windward Concourse in Alpharetta, Georgia. The five-year agreement could generate CA$88.9 million (US$63.15m) in billings, based on an initial 3MW deployment, with the lease beginning in November ...

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Read Top Data Center News for 12th-17th October, 2026
**[Microsoft Acquires 600 Acres for Data Center Development in Woodward, Iowa](https://baxtel.com/news/microsoft-acquires-600-acres-for-data-center-development-in-woodward-iowa)** **Microsoft has ...
October 19, 2026

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

United States

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, valued at around $37.4 million, for a potential gigawatt scale data center campus expected to support cloud computing and data st...

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Read Google evaluates Wood Haven Technology Park in Roanoke County, Virginia
Google is considering developing a data center campus at Wood Haven Technology Park in Roanoke County, Virginia. Google and the Western Virginia Regional Industrial Facility Authority confirmed the...
October 19, 2026

Google evaluates Wood Haven Technology Park in Roanoke County, Virginia

Google

Google is considering developing a data center campus at Wood Haven Technology Park in Roanoke County, Virginia. Google and the Western Virginia Regional Industrial Facility Authority confirmed the potential project on October 16. Google's regional public affairs manager, Clay Allsop, said: “Goog...

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Read Alcoa To Sell Idle Massena East Smelter Site For Up To $315M Data Center Build
Alcoa will sell portions of its long-idled Massena East aluminum smelter in northern New York to a developer that plans to build a data center on the property, a transaction the company values at u...
October 19, 2026

Alcoa To Sell Idle Massena East Smelter Site For Up To $315M Data Center Build

New York State

Alcoa will sell portions of its long-idled Massena East aluminum smelter in northern New York to a developer that plans to build a data center on the property, a transaction the company values at up to $315 million. Alcoa disclosed the definitive agreement in its third-quarter 2026 results on Oct...

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Read Alcoa Sells New York Smelter to Data Center Developer in $315m Deal
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 cry...
October 19, 2026

Alcoa Sells New York Smelter to Data Center Developer in $315m Deal

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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Read Google Strategic Sourcing Executive Joins OpenAI
Allyson Fealtman, a former Google data center strategic sourcing and supplier development lead, has joined OpenAI after 16 years at Google. She led 11 commodity managers overseeing liquid and air c...
October 17, 2026

Google Strategic Sourcing Executive Joins OpenAI

Google

Allyson Fealtman, a former Google data center strategic sourcing and supplier development lead, has joined OpenAI after 16 years at Google. She led 11 commodity managers overseeing liquid and air cooling, interconnects, and mechanical equipment. She joined OpenAI in May and will focus on strategi...

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Read Digital Realty Tops Out Second Seoul Data Center
Digital Realty has topped out ICN11, its second data center in Seoul, South Korea. The facility is expected to become operational in the second half of 2027. “The topping out isn't just a constr...
October 17, 2026

Digital Realty Tops Out Second Seoul Data Center

Digital Realty Bersama

Digital Realty has topped out ICN11, its second data center in Seoul, South Korea. The facility is expected to become operational in the second half of 2027. “The topping out isn't just a construction milestone; it's a powerful symbol of what happens when incredible teams come together to build s...

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Read Digital Realty Picks Kokomo for 1GW Campus, Its First in Indiana
[Digital Realty](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/digital-realty-trust) wants to build its first [Indiana](https://baxtel.com/regions/indiana) data centers in Kokomo, proposing a three-building camp...
October 17, 2026

Digital Realty Picks Kokomo for 1GW Campus, Its First in Indiana

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty wants to build its first Indiana data centers in Kokomo, proposing a three-building campus with roughly 1GW of IT capacity on 476 acres of greenfield land. The global REIT published a project page for the development after city officials confirmed its interest earlier this month, w...

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Read CapitaLand to Launch 53MW Data Center in Chennai, India, by Year-End
CapitaLand Investment Limited has unveiled plans for a 53MW data center in Ambattur, Chennai, targeted for completion by the end of 2026. The project is the first in Tamil Nadu under its CapitaLand...
October 16, 2026

CapitaLand to Launch 53MW Data Center in Chennai, India, by Year-End

CapitaLand

CapitaLand Investment Limited has unveiled plans for a 53MW data center in Ambattur, Chennai, targeted for completion by the end of 2026. The project is the first in Tamil Nadu under its CapitaLand India Trust platform. First proposed in 2021, the facility was initially planned to deliver 55MW by...

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Read LightEdge Considers Data Center Project Near Des Moines, Iowa
LightEdge plans to develop a colocation data center on ten acres in Boone Business Park, Iowa, about 48 miles northwest of Des Moines. The Boone County Economic Growth Corporation has signed a let...
October 16, 2026

LightEdge Considers Data Center Project Near Des Moines, Iowa

Iowa

LightEdge plans to develop a colocation data center on ten acres in Boone Business Park, Iowa, about 48 miles northwest of Des Moines. The Boone County Economic Growth Corporation has signed a letter of intent for the land sale. The city’s planning commission has approved the site plan for recomm...

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Read Mason County Approves 40-Year Tax Deal for Meta's 400MW Kentucky Campus
The Mason County Fiscal Court voted unanimously on Oct. 13 to approve three agreements that clear the way for [Meta](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/meta) to build a hyperscale data center campus o...
October 16, 2026

Mason County Approves 40-Year Tax Deal for Meta's 400MW Kentucky Campus

Meta

The Mason County Fiscal Court voted unanimously on Oct. 13 to approve three agreements that clear the way for Meta to build a hyperscale data center campus on nearly 3,000 acres near Maysville in northeastern Kentucky. The approvals, set out in the county's news release, cover a 40-year industria...

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Read Digital Realty Proposes Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Campus Near Indianapolis, Indiana
Digital Realty plans to develop a gigawatt-scale data center campus on 476 acres in Kokomo, Indiana, comprising three single-story buildings. Kokomo, the county seat of Howard County, is about 50 ...
October 16, 2026

Digital Realty Proposes Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Campus Near Indianapolis, Indiana

Digital Realty Bersama

Digital Realty plans to develop a gigawatt-scale data center campus on 476 acres in Kokomo, Indiana, comprising three single-story buildings. Kokomo, the county seat of Howard County, is about 50 miles north of Indianapolis. Located on greenfield land in Industrial Park North near US 31 and Count...

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Read Meta Named on 400MW Kentucky Campus With 40-Year Local Tax Break
Mason County Fiscal Court voted unanimously on Oct. 13 to approve a development and community revenue agreement with Meta, ending two years in which the company behind a planned hyperscale campus n...
October 16, 2026

Meta Named on 400MW Kentucky Campus With 40-Year Local Tax Break

Meta

Mason County Fiscal Court voted unanimously on Oct. 13 to approve a development and community revenue agreement with Meta, ending two years in which the company behind a planned hyperscale campus near Maysville, Kentucky was kept unnamed (Mason County Fiscal Court announcement). The site covers r...

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Read Digital Realty Proposes 1GW Data Center Campus In Kokomo, Indiana
[Digital Realty](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/digital-realty-trust) is proposing a three-building data center campus on about 476 acres at Industrial Park North in Kokomo, Indiana, with a site...
October 16, 2026

Digital Realty Proposes 1GW Data Center Campus In Kokomo, Indiana

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty is proposing a three-building data center campus on about 476 acres at Industrial Park North in Kokomo, Indiana, with a site plan that calls for roughly 1GW of IT capacity and completion in 2033. The company published the details on its Kokomo project page, and Kokomo Mayor TWide s...

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Read BlackRock CEO Warns US Data Center Construction Slowdown Could Trigger Recession
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink warned that a nationwide US data center construction moratorium could trigger a recession, given the economy’s growing reliance on AI infrastructure investment. JLL estimat...
October 16, 2026

BlackRock CEO Warns US Data Center Construction Slowdown Could Trigger Recession

United States

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink warned that a nationwide US data center construction moratorium could trigger a recession, given the economy’s growing reliance on AI infrastructure investment. JLL estimates data center development will require $3 trillion in investment by 2030. Global occupancy stands a...

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Read Taylor Approves 1GW Gas-Fired Data Center Campus for Big Watt, PowerHouse
Taylor City Council voted 5-0 on Oct. 8 to annex and approve a development agreement for Taylor Technology Campus, a 664-acre hyperscale project east of Taylor that Big Watt Digital and PowerHouse ...
October 15, 2026

Taylor Approves 1GW Gas-Fired Data Center Campus for Big Watt, PowerHouse

PowerHouse Data Centers

Taylor City Council voted 5-0 on Oct. 8 to annex and approve a development agreement for Taylor Technology Campus, a 664-acre hyperscale project east of Taylor that Big Watt Digital and PowerHouse Data Centers say could support up to one gigaRendering of a PowerHouse data center campus developmen...

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