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Blueprint plans data center outside Austin, Texas

Taylor City Council last week granted unanimous approval to give Austin-based Blueprint Projects tax breaks on a proposed data center project in the city of Taylor. The company plans to use land owned by the Taylor Economic Development Corp. at 1601 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Williamson ...

August 18, 2024

Texas

Texas Instruments awarded $1.6bn in US CHIPS funding

The US Department of Commerce has signed a memorandum of terms with Texas Instruments that could see the company awarded $1.6 billion in CHIPS and Science Act funding which would support Texas Instrument’s plans to invest $18bn in the construction of two fabs in Sherman, Texas, and one in Lehi...

August 18, 2024

Texas

Crusoe plans new AI data center in Texas

AI firm Crusoe has revealed it has designed and engineered, and is building, a 200MW GPU-focused data center at the Lancium Clean Campus outside Abilene, Texas. This facility will include high-density data halls specially designed to enable AI workloads and optimized for direct-to-chip liquid ...

July 19, 2024

Texas

Hut 8 to expand in West Texas

Cryptomining company Hut 8 has revealed that it will beexpanding its operations in Texas and has signed a power purchase agreement to procure 205MW of energy for a new data center to be built on an undisclosed greenfield site in West Texas.Asher Genoot, CEO of Hut 8, said: “This transaction ex...

July 11, 2024

Texas

DataNovaX pitches Northern Texas as a potential hub for new facilities

DataNovaX, a new build-to-suit (BTS) data center provider, this week announced it is pitching Northern Texas as a potential hub for new facilities and is accepting clients at Pioneer Park in Wichita Falls.Ahmed Abdelghani, DataNovaX CEO, said: "This area offers a wealth of resources and busine...

June 04, 2024

Texas

Soluna secures $30 million in funding for data center expansion

Data center operator Soluna has secured $30 million in funding from Spring Lane Capital to expand its data center in Texas. Soluna said the financing will accommodate approximately 12,700 Bitcoin mining rigs, each with a power consumption of around 3.5kW, totaling 48MW. Soluna has an existing ...

May 24, 2024

Texas

Ericsson to invest $50 million for data center expansion

Ericsson this week revealed it will invest an additional $50 million to expand its four-year-old 5G Smart Factory in Lewisville, Texas, an investment which "will further accelerate local production to address the demand for 5G infrastructure made in the USA, compliant with the Build America B...

May 21, 2024

Texas

Lumen secures new contract from GAO

Lumen Technologies has secured a contract worth about $73.6 million from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) under the General Services Administration's Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) program. This multi-million dollar contract will see Lumen modernize network, data, voice...

April 15, 2024

Lumen Technologies

Samsung plans investment in semiconductor cluster

Samsung Electronics has announced it will invest $40 billion to build a semiconductor cluster across a number of locations in Texas with a $6.4bn in direct funding under the US Chips and Science Act to support the development. The Taylor fabs are expected to be up and running by 2026 and Samsu...

April 15, 2024

Texas

Iris Energy and Poolside sign new partnership

Iris Energy and AI startup Poolside have gotten into an agreement to give the latter cloud access to Nvidia GPUs. According to Iris Energy, the initial contract is three months, with a potential three month extension. Daniel Roberts, co-Founder and co-CEO of Iris Energy, said: “We are pleased ...

February 08, 2024

Texas

Data Clean Corp acquires data center cleaning business Sealco

Data Clean Corporation has acquired Texas-based critical environment cleaning company Sealco LLC, marking its second acquisition since it was bought by Angeles Equity Partners in November 2022. Frank Spelman, managing director at Angeles Equity Partners said, “Sealco is arguably one of the mos...

November 17, 2023

Texas

US Defense Information Systems Agency awards $110 million contract to Lumen

The US Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded Lumen Technologies a $110 million contract to provide mission-critical network services to the US Department of Defense (DoD). This contract has a timeline of five years, from November 30, 2023, through September 30, 2028. This contract is...

November 10, 2023

Lumen Technologies

Lumen sells CND customers to Akamai as it shuts down the business

Lumen announced that it’s Content Delivery Network (CDN) business will be shut down and it has sold its customer contracts to Akamai. Both companies will undergo a transition services agreement for 90 days before Lumen completes its shut down. "We are deep into our transformation of Lumen and ...

October 16, 2023

Lumen Technologies

Smith County data center to get $2million renovation

Smith County, Texas is giving its data center at 200 E. Ferguson Street, Texas, the Smith County Annex a $2 million upgrade. This upgrade scheduled to begin on November 1, 2023, is expected to be completed by December 20, 2024.The mission for this upgrade is focused on enhancing the IT infras...

October 09, 2023

Texas

Texas-based Valero payments data center for sale

Energy company Valero's office and data center space is up for sale in Texas. Williams & Co Real Estate has the Valero Credit Card Ops Center at 7201 Canyon Drive in Amarillo listed for sale with a Triple Net Lease (NNN) tenant. The price listed is $6,295,000. The 2003-built, 34,585-square...

August 03, 2023

Texas

Lumen, a US telco, loses $8.74bn due to non-cash impairment

In the second quarter, Lumen Technologies reported a loss of $8.74 billion, a significant decrease from the $344 million profit in the same quarter last year. The company, formerly CenturyLink Enterprise, has lost more than 66 percent of its value this year, reducing its market capitalization ...

August 03, 2023

Lumen Technologies

Ericsson sets up a 5G site in Texas powered by solar energy

Ericsson has announced that it has set up a 5G site in Texas powered by solar energy. Located in Plano, Texas, the site can be fully operated by solar energy and supported by integrated Lithium-ion batteries, for up to 24 hours. The Plano site includes Ericsson's Massive MIMO radio configurati...

July 14, 2023

Texas

Soluna's Project Dorothy Data Center Receives Approval to Go Live from ERCOT

The manufacturer of green data centers for Bitcoin mining and other intensive computing, Soluna Computing, Inc., announced yesterday that it had received final authorization from ERCOT for powering Project Dorothy, its flagship data center in Texas, with immediate effect. The last legal requir...

April 25, 2023

Texas

TexAmericas Center announces initiative to develop green data center park

TexAmericas Center has announced its plan to develop green energy data centers, which it has said will be suitable for major companies eyeing expansion. The property pegged for this development has over 400 acres, which reports outline would be suitable for hyperscale, corporate, retail and s...

March 08, 2023

Texas

Citigroup Is Equipping Two Of Its Data Centers in Texas With Battery Rooms

CitiGroup is initiating two data center expansion projects in the Austin and Dallas-Fort Worth regions of Texas. Two applications for 'Battery Room Buildouts' have been submitted to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR). Its Georgetown Data Center is located at 201 Blue Ridge...

February 06, 2023

Texas

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