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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 NTT Installs Nvidia GPU Test Cluster at Munich 2 Data Center
NTT Global Data Centres has deployed an Nvidia GPU cluster at its Munich 2 data center, allowing clients to test AI applications at scale before committing to wider deployments. Dubbed AI Factory M...
October 15, 2026

NTT Installs Nvidia GPU Test Cluster at Munich 2 Data Center

NTT

NTT Global Data Centres has deployed an Nvidia GPU cluster at its Munich 2 data center, allowing clients to test AI applications at scale before committing to wider deployments. Dubbed AI Factory Munich, the cluster lets customers assess AI workloads against real-world infrastructure, security, d...

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Read Digital Realty Completes Structural Topping-Out of 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 15, 2026

Digital Realty Completes Structural Topping-Out of Second Seoul Data Center

Digital Realty Trust

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 Virginia Senator Perry Proposes Three-Year Statewide Data Center Moratorium
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 grow...
October 15, 2026

Virginia Senator Perry Proposes Three-Year Statewide Data Center Moratorium

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 wouldEditorial image depicting data ce...

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Read AEP To Invest $4B In 702MW Fuel Cell Plant For Google
American Electric Power will invest about $4 billion in a 702 MW fuel cell generation project near Cheyenne, Wyoming, under a 20-year power purchase agreement with [Google](https://baxtel.com/data-...
October 15, 2026

AEP To Invest $4B In 702MW Fuel Cell Plant For Google

Google

American Electric Power will invest about $4 billion in a 702 MW fuel cell generation project near Cheyenne, Wyoming, under a 20-year power purchase agreement with Google, the utility announced. The plant is being developed Large-scale landscape photo showing an extensive array of Bloom Energy fu...

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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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Read Virginia Senator Calls for Three-Year Statewide Pause on Data Center Development
Virginia could introduce a three-year data center moratorium under Senate Bill 843, proposed by Democratic Senator Russet Perry, who represents Loudoun County. If passed, the bill would prevent sta...
October 15, 2026

Virginia Senator Calls for Three-Year Statewide Pause on Data Center Development

Virginia

Virginia could introduce a three-year data center moratorium under Senate Bill 843, proposed by Democratic Senator Russet Perry, who represents Loudoun County. If passed, the bill would prevent state agencies from approving data center planning applications for three years from July 1, 2027. Perr...

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Read Serverfarm Completes Structure of First Data Center at Arkansas Campus
Serverfarm has topped out the first building at its new data center campus in Clarksville, Arkansas. CEO Avner Papouchado said the company is committed to the area and aims to be a long-term commun...
October 15, 2026

Serverfarm Completes Structure of First Data Center at Arkansas Campus

ServerFarm Realty

Serverfarm has topped out the first building at its new data center campus in Clarksville, Arkansas. CEO Avner Papouchado said the company is committed to the area and aims to be a long-term community partner. The two-story ARK1 facility will offer 108MW of capacity across 300,000 sq ft (27,870 s...

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Read Big Watt, PowerHouse Win Taylor Approval for 1GW Texas Data Center Campus
Taylor City Council voted 5-0 on Oct. 8 to approve a development agreement with Big Watt Digital and PowerHouse Data Centers for the Taylor Technology Campus, a 664-acre hyperscale project immediat...
October 15, 2026

Big Watt, PowerHouse Win Taylor Approval for 1GW Texas Data Center Campus

PowerHouse Data Centers

Taylor City Council voted 5-0 on Oct. 8 to approve a development agreement with Big Watt Digital and PowerHouse Data Centers for the Taylor Technology Campus, a 664-acre hyperscale project immediately east of the city that could reach one gigawatt of capacity. The joint venture announced the appr...

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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 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 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 DayOne Adds $3.67 Billion Johor Financing, Bank Platform Hits $7.3 Billion
A seven-bank consortium has added RM15 billion, about US$3.67 billion, to [DayOne](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/dayone)'s Johor data center financing, lifting the Singapore-headquartered operato...
October 14, 2026

DayOne Adds $3.67 Billion Johor Financing, Bank Platform Hits $7.3 Billion

DayOne

A seven-bank consortium has added RM15 billion, about US$3.67 billion, to DayOne's Johor data center financing, lifting the Singapore-headquartered operator's debt platform in Malaysia's southern state to RM30 billion, or roughly US$7.3 billion. The lenders set out the upsizing in a joint stateme...

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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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