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Data Center Operators are Hiring Laid-off Meta Platforms Workers

Several data center operators have pointed to open roles after Meta Platforms began laying off around 8,000 employees, about 10% of its workforce. The cuts affected staff across all levels, including some in data center roles. On LinkedIn, multiple data center firms expressed support for affec...

May 22, 2026

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Nebius will Deploy Bloom Energy Fuel Cells to Supply Power for its U.S. Data Centers

Nebius has signed a deal with Bloom Energy to deploy solid oxide fuel cells for its U.S. AI infrastructure buildout. The first project will deliver 328MW of behind-the-meter power for Nebius’ AI cloud platform at an undisclosed site, with operations expected to begin later this year.“Power rem...

May 21, 2026

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Meta Begins Laying off 8,000 Employees, Including Data Center Staff

Meta has begun laying off 8,000 employees globally as part of a broader restructuring tied to its growing AI and data center investments. The company plans to reduce its workforce by around 10 percent to free up cash flow for expanded data center spending. At the same time, Meta has canceled p...

May 20, 2026

Meta

Google Launches $15bn Data Center Build in India

Google has broken ground on its $15 billion data center project in Visakhapatnam (Vizag), Andhra Pradesh, India. The company held a groundbreaking ceremony on April 28 to mark the start of construction. The event was jointly hosted by Google, AdaniConneX, and Nxtra by Airtel, and was attended ...

April 28, 2026

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Google Starts Work on New Data Center in Austria

Google has broken ground on its data center development in Kronstorf, Austria. The facility will be the company’s first self-built and owned data center in the country. Set to span 42,000 sqm (452,000 sq ft) on a 70-hectare site in central Austria, Google received planning permission for the p...

April 23, 2026

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Meta Begins Construction on Tulsa Data Center

Meta has broken ground on its first data center in Oklahoma, beginning construction on a campus in Tulsa. The project is expected to involve around $1 billion in investment, with the company confirming it is behind the 340-acre Project Anthem development, according to News On 6. First proposed...

April 22, 2026

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Google acquires Project Maize data center campus in Indiana

Google has taken over the controversial Project Maize data center development in Michigan City, Indiana. The Michigan City Economic Development Corporation (EDC) confirmed that Google acquired the project, located at 402 Royal Road, last week.The project will redevelop a long-vacant building a...

April 20, 2026

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Google Secures Capacity at Nscale Facility in West London

Google has reportedly agreed to take capacity at an Nscale data center in West London, UK. The facility is separate from those that OpenAI had previously been expected to lease from Nscale in the country.According to a Bloomberg report, citing a source familiar with the matter, the agreement w...

April 15, 2026

Google

Iron Mountain Completes Structural Build of Chennai Data Center

Iron Mountain has topped out a new data center in Chennai, India.“We are thrilled to celebrate a recent major milestone in our global expansion: the official topping-out ceremony of our Chennai CHN-1 data center in Ambattur!” the company said on LinkedIn this week. “As the structural framework...

April 13, 2026

Iron Mountain

Google Advances Plans for its First French Data Center

Google is reportedly moving forward with plans for its first data center in France, with a preliminary consultation set to assess the project’s environmental impact. The French National Commission for Public Debate (CNDP), which oversees public consultations for major infrastructure projects, ...

April 13, 2026

Google

Edged Opens 36MW Data Center in Phoenix, Arizona

US operator Edged has launched a new data center in Phoenix, Arizona. The Endeavour-owned company this month announced the opening of its PHX01-1 facility. Situated on a 12-acre site at 8811 E. Warner Road in Mesa, Maricopa County, the two-story building delivers 36MW of capacity across 210,00...

April 08, 2026

Edged Energy

Google Acquires Land to Develop $15 Billion Data Center in India

Google is set to begin work on its $15 billion data center projects in Andhra Pradesh later this month. According to Economic Times Telecom, the land has been handed over to Google’s subsidiary, Raiden Infotech India Private Limited, with groundbreaking expected on April 28, 2026.Google confir...

April 07, 2026

Google

Baker Hughes, Google Cloud Team on Data Center AI

US energy firm Baker Hughes has partnered with Google Cloud to develop AI tools aimed at optimizing power use and improving data center sustainability. The collaboration targets growing energy demand driven by AI and cloud expansion, with both companies exploring how to better leverage industr...

March 27, 2026

Google

Google Buys Land for Data Center in West Virginia for Billion Dollar Project

Google plans to build a data center in Putnam County, West Virginia. Governor Patrick Morrisey announced that the company has purchased land and received approval for a multi-billion-dollar “High Impact Development Project.”The project is still in its early stages, with Google set to meet loca...

March 27, 2026

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Iron Mountain Plans a Seven-building Data Center Campus Outside Austin, Texas

Iron Mountain is targeting a new data center development outside Austin, Texas. First reported by BizJournal, the company is targeting a campus outside the city of Hutto in Williamson County.The Hutto City Council last week reviewed a presentation from Iron Mountain on its Taylor Meadows data ...

March 18, 2026

Iron Mountain

Google Outlines Plans for Data Center in Botetourt County, Virginia

Google has outlined plans for a proposed data center development in Botetourt County, Virginia. Known as Project Raspberry, details of the project were revealed in a notice issued by the US Army Corps of Engineers’ Norfolk District.Planned for a 343.6-acre site within the Greenfield Industrial...

March 11, 2026

Google

Meta Signs Pre-development Agreement for Data Center in Beloit, Wisconsin

Meta Platforms has reportedly signed a pre-development agreement with the Town of Beloit for a potential data center project in southern Wisconsin. According to the Beloit Daily News, the facility could be built on a 430-acre site located between Town Line Road, South Prairie Avenue, and East ...

March 05, 2026

Meta

Google has Confirmed it is the Company Behind the Planned 403-acre Data Center Campus in Hermantown, Minnesota

Google has confirmed it is the company behind the 403-acre data center campus project in Hermantown, Minnesota.As reported by MPRNews, Google has confirmed its role in the development, describing the area as a "natural fit for this project, offering a climate that supports energy-efficient air...

March 04, 2026

Google

Google has Acquired a 900-hectare Site in Finland for the Development of a New Data Center

The municipality of Vaala this week announced Google has acquired some 900 hectares in the area. The site is about six kilometres (3.7 miles) from the center of Vaala, near Fingrid's Nuojua substation on both sides of Ouluntie (Highway 22). Full details of the planned development haven’t been ...

February 27, 2026

Google

Google Plans to Develop a “Clean Energy” Colocated Data Center in Wilbarger County, Texas

Google has announced a new data center in Wilbarger County, Texas, to be powered by onsite ‘clean energy’ from US energy firm AES. AES has secured the land and grid interconnection agreements for the project and will construct the shared electrical infrastructure needed to support the co-locat...

February 24, 2026

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