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August 01, 2026
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Texas
A 706-acre data center project has been approved for development outside San Antonio, Texas. CloudBurst received approval from the Guadalupe Commissioners Court on April 21, following the authorization of a $500 million tax abatement and a development agreement for the project. The company pla...
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CyrusOne
US data center operator CyrusOne is bringing a significant portion of its on-site operations in-house, ending large sections of its existing outsourcing partnership with JLL. The KKR-owned company confirmed to DCD this week that it is restructuring its US operating model by internalizing on-si...
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nLighten
The canton of Geneva, Switzerland, has signed a new data center colocation agreement with nLighten. As detailed in a tender issued by the Geneva Cantonal Office for Information Systems and Digital Technology (OCSIN), the 10-year contract with the European operator’s Swiss subsidiary is worth C...
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IREN
Data center and cloud firm Iren has energized a new campus in Texas. The Nasdaq-listed company this week announced the successful energization of its 1.4GW Sweetwater 1 data center site in West Texas. The firm’s two Sweetwater campuses, both located outside Sweetwater in Fisher County, are exp...
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Texas
A 500-acre data center campus could be developed near Austin, Texas. Data center developer PowerHouse Data Centers is planning a facility in Caldwell County, located between Austin and San Antonio. While details remain limited, the company is understood to be targeting the Caldwell Valley Tech...
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Cerebras Systems
Wafer-scale chip company and cloud provider Cerebras has signed an agreement to lease 40MW of capacity at a Digi Power X data center in Columbiana, Alabama. The contract has an initial term of 10 years and is valued at $1.1 billion, with the potential to be extended to a total value of $2.5 bi...
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United States
Anthropic plans to use the full compute capacity of xAI’s Colossus 1 data center as part of a partnership with SpaceX, the company’s owner. The agreement gives Anthropic access to more than 300MW of capacity and over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs within the month. The generative AI company said the addi...
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United States
Fleet Data Centers has closed $4.6 billion in senior secured notes to fund a 230MW data center campus in Storey County, Nevada. The hyperscale facility is reportedly fully leased to an unnamed AA-rated, investment-grade tenant with a market capitalization exceeding $3 trillion, under a 197-mon...
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Germany / Deutschland
Datacenter Münster Osnabrück (DMO) has brought its data center outside Münster, Germany, online. Located at Münster Osnabrück Airport, the first phase of the facility offering 1MW of capacity has been operational since April 15.The facility has been in development since 2022, with construction...
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Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has confirmed it is behind a planned data center project in Tyrone, Georgia. In a blog post, the company said it will host a community information session on May 19 to discuss key aspects of the development, including energy use, water and sustainability, construction timelines, desi...
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Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) operated a total of 56.839 million square feet (5.28 million sqm) of data center and office space in 2025. According to its 10-K filing, the company owned approximately 28.37 million sq ft (2.64 million sqm) and leased a further 28.469 million sq ft (2.64 million sqm)...
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Amazon AWS
Amazon Data Services acquired a nine-acre property in Owings Mills in Baltimore County from T. Rowe Price Group. The companies have confirmed the transaction. The site, located at 11550 Cronridge Drive, sold for $15.2 million and includes 111,000 sq ft (10,310 sqm) of office space.T. Rowe has ...
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Malaysia
DPS Energy a subsidiary of Malaysian investment holding company DPS Resources and Hangzhou Xinfengwei Network, an affiliate of Alibaba, are exploring plans to develop data centers in Melaka, Malaysia. The companies announced last Wednesday that they have signed a memorandum of understanding t...
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Reno
US data center firm Centra has topped out a new facility in Reno, Nevada. "We've officially topped out RNO2, our second Reno facility and the region's first carrier-neutral interconnection data center,” the company said on LinkedIn. “This moment represents our significant progress toward deliv...
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Croatia
US investment group Pantheon Atlas has unveiled plans for a hyperscale AI data center and innovation campus in Topusko, Croatia, with investment of up to €12 billion ($14.1 billion). The proposed 310-acre site will be located around 90km (56 miles) south of Zagreb, with potential to expand to ...
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Naver Corp.
Cryptocurrency and HPC data center developer MARA Holdings has signed an agreement to acquire a 505MW combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plant in Hannibal, Ohio, along with more than 1,600 acres of land suitable for a large-scale data center campus. MARA will acquire the Long Ridge Energy...
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AI cloud provider Verda is set to offer customers access to Arm’s new AGI CPU. The Finnish firm will become one of the first to deploy the chip, which was developed by Arm in collaboration with Meta and announced last month. It marks a shift for Arm, traditionally known for its chip designs, i...
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Texas
Cryptomining firm-turned HPC data center provider Riot Platforms has signed an expanded agreement with chip designer AMD. As part of its Q1 2026 earnings report, Riot said AMD has exercised its option to lease an additional 25MW of capacity, bringing its total contracted footprint with the com...
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Switch
US data center firm Switch is planning a new campus outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company this week announced plans for a 382-acre development in Big Beaver Borough, Beaver County. The site is located around 40 miles (64km) northwest of Pittsburgh, near the Ohio state border. Full deta...
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Jakarta
APAC data center firm Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has acquired land in Jakarta, Indonesia, for a new development. The company this week announced the acquisition of a site in Greater Jakarta for its newest campus, JC4 Located within the Greenland International Industrial Center ...
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