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AWS Proposes $1.2 Billion Data Center Campus Outside Housto

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is planning a new data center campus in Boling, Texas, outside Houston. Filed under Amazon Data Services with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, “Project Eagle” will include four buildings on a roughly 2,700-acre site in Wharton County near FM 1301 and FM ...

July 08, 2026

Amazon AWS

Amazon Expands Mumbai Data Center Land Lease by four Acres

Amazon has leased an additional four acres of land at its site in Powai, Mumbai, expanding its data center footprint in India. According to The Economic Times, the land has been leased from Larsen & Toubro Ltd under a 17-year agreement through Amazon Data Services, the company's primary data ce...

July 06, 2026

Amazon AWS

NextDC Unveils 612MW S7 Data Centre, OpenAI Stargate Set to Be Customer

NextDC's proposed S7 data centre in Eastern Creek, Sydney, will provide up to 612MW of capacity, according to planning documents. The Australian developer submitted plans for the project in mid-March, several months after acquiring the 255,135 sqm site for AU$353 million (US$244m) in October 2024...

July 02, 2026

NEXTDC

AWS reports record expansion in 2025, adding 1.2GW of data centre capacity in Q4 alone

Amazon Web Services (AWS) highlighted strong expansion in its latest sustainability report, saying it added more data centre capacity globally than any other company last year, including over 1.2GW in Q4 alone. Between October 2024 and October 2025, AWS added a total of 3.8GW. CEO Andy Jassy said...

July 02, 2026

Amazon AWS

NextDC Secures 169-hectare Land Parcel Outside Melbourne

Australian data center firm NextDC has acquired a large land parcel outside Melbourne, Victoria. Local media, including The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, report that the company has purchased 169 hectares in Lovely Banks, Victoria, near Geelong and around 70km west of Melbourne. The site ...

June 25, 2026

NEXTDC

Amazon Employees Back Data Center Regulations, Allege Workplace Retaliation

Three Amazon employees have alleged that the company retaliated against them after they testified in support of a Seattle data center moratorium. According to reports, the employees—Darius Irani, Patrick Schloesser, and Liesl Wigand, all members of Amazon Employees for Climate Justice (AECJ)—were...

June 22, 2026

Amazon AWS

Equinix Trials Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology at Data Center in Ireland

Equinix has launched its first trial of hydrogen fuel cell technology as a replacement for diesel backup generation at a data center in Ireland. Working with ESB and GeoPura, the company has deployed two hydrogen-powered generators at its DB3 Data Center facility. The 12-week trial will support c...

June 19, 2026

Equinix

Google Plans $1.5 Billion Expansion of Alabama Data Center Campus

Google will invest an additional $1.5 billion to expand its data center campus in Jackson County through 2027. The site, built on the former Widows Creek coal plant, has been operational since 2019. According to Baxtel, it currently includes two 135,000 sq ft (12,540 sqm) data center buildings, t...

June 16, 2026

Google

Top Data Center News for 8th-13th of June, 2026

OpenAI in Early Talks for 10GW Data Center Lease in Ohio **OpenAI is in advanced talks to lease a proposed 10GW data center in Ohio which could be built in phases starting with an 800MW first stage expected i...

June 15, 2026

Google

Jinko Power Targets 1GW Solar-Backed AI Data Center Project in Western China

Chinese solar developer Jinko Power, a subsidiary of the broader Jinko Solar Group, is planning a 1GW data center project in Ningxia, western China, that will be powered directly by a dedicated solar facility. According to a report by Nikkei, the company has signed a framework investment agreemen...

June 12, 2026

Google

Blue Owl Secures $975M Financing for Northern Virginia Data Center

Corscale Data Centers has secured $975 million in financing from Blue Owl for Project Helios, a newly built data center in Prince William County, Virginia. The funding was arranged by Newmark on behalf of a joint venture between Corscale and Affinius Capital. The facility is fully leased to an in...

June 12, 2026

Amazon AWS

STT GDC Opens New Jakarta Data Center and Breaks Ground on Two More Facilities

Asia-Pacific data center operator ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) is expanding its Jakarta campus with a series of new developments in Indonesia. The company has launched STT Jakarta 2, completed the topping-out of STT Jakarta 3, and broken ground on STT Jakarta 5 and STT Jakarta 6. Co...

June 11, 2026

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

Amazon Data Centers Consumed 2.5 Billion Gallons of Water in 2025

Amazon said its data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water in 2025. Water withdrawals at facilities it owns and operates fell 2% from 2024 despite an increase in the number of data centers, while the company did not disclose water use at leased sites. AWS owned about 28.4 million square feet ...

June 11, 2026

Amazon AWS

Keppel Plans 60MW Data Center in Seoul as It Expands Into South Korea

Singapore-based real estate investor Keppel will develop a 60MW greenfield data center in Ansan, near Seoul, marking its entry into South Korea’s data center market. The project will be developed through Keppel Data Centre Fund III (KDCF III), which has acquired a majority stake in the vehicle th...

June 09, 2026

Keppel Data Center REIT

Google to Pay SpaceX-xAI $920 Million Per Month for AI Data Center Capacity

Google has entered into an agreement with SpaceX to secure large-scale computing capacity. According to a regulatory filing submitted by SpaceX on June 5, Google will lease roughly 110,000 GPUs, CPUs, memory modules, and related infrastructure for approximately $920 million per month. The contrac...

June 08, 2026

Google

Top Data Center News for 1st - 6th June, 2026

Polar DC Secures €800 Million for Norway Data Center Project **Nordic AI data center developer Polar DC has raised €800 million ($932.2 million) for the development of its Norway data ...

June 08, 2026

Google

Google Targets Net Positive Water Use at Data Centers by 2030

Google has pledged to replenish more water than it consumes across its data centers by 2030. The company plans to upgrade water and wastewater systems, work with utilities in local communities, and prioritize air-cooled technologies to reduce water use. It also aims to expand the use of reclaimed...

June 05, 2026

Google

Second Building at Edged’s Chicago Data Center Campus Topped Out

Edged Energy has topped out its latest facility at its Chicago, Illinois campus. The company said it has completed structural work on its second building at the site at 2835 Bilter Road in Aurora. The ORD01-2 data center is fully pre-leased, will deliver 72MW of capacity, and is scheduled to go l...

June 05, 2026

Edge Centres

Damac Digital Unveils 6GW Data Center Expansion Across Four Continents

The data center arm of UAE property conglomerate Damac has said it plans to achieve an IT capacity landbank of 6GW across 13 countries and more than 35 sites. The Dubai-based firm said it is expanding in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East driven by an increasing demand for AI, cloud ...

June 04, 2026

DAMAC Digital

Gigawatt Scale Data Center and Energy Project Kicks Off in Texas

Google and Intersect Power have begun construction at the Meitner Energy Center, a colocated data center and energy project spanning Gray and Roberts Counties, Texas. The development combines a data center with more than 1GW of wind, solar, and battery storage capacity. The companies said the col...

June 04, 2026

Google

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