August 18, 2024 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...
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August 18, 2024 Texas
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,...
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August 14, 2024 Ohio
Data center firm Edged Energy has officially announced plans for a new data center located at 6525 New Albany Road East, the 206,000 sq ft (19,140 sqm) facility will offer 24MW across two stories. Construction is underway and expected to be completed in July 2025. “We are on a mission to build...
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July 22, 2024 Paraguay
Canadian cryptomining firm Hive Digital Technologies this week has announced plans to build a 100MW hydroelectricity-powered cryptomine data center in Paraguay. Hive said it will offer its “expertise in grid balancing and demand response” to support continued industrial development in Paraguay,...
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July 19, 2024 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...
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July 11, 2024 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...
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July 06, 2024 Abu Dhabi
The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has paired with telco e& to build a private 5G wireless network that spans 11,000 square kilometers which will be the largest private 5G wireless network ever built in the energy industry.“This landmark project with e& is a milestone step in...
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June 04, 2024 Texas
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 business...
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May 24, 2024 Texas
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...
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May 21, 2024 Texas
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 Buy...
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April 15, 2024 Texas
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 Samsung...
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February 15, 2024 Ohio
Expedient this week announced that it has launched services from a data center in Columbus, Ohio, previously operated by an insurance firm and has added a former Nationwide data center near Columbus to its portfolio. This facility located at 281 E. Powell Road in Lewis Center township, the...
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February 08, 2024 Texas
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 to...
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December 21, 2023 Marathon Digital: Garden City TX
Applied Digital has recently signed a long-term retail electric agreement with TerraForm Power for its 200MW data center in Garden City, Texas. Following this agreement, Applied Digital will use wind power produced in Texas by TerraForm Power. Wes Cummins, Applied Digital chairman and CEO said,...
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November 29, 2023 Ohio
Concord-Green fire chief Ralph Stegbauer and fire captain Jeffery Skaggs have both passed away while carrying out tower maintenance outside their firehouse in Ohio. Both firefighters were working on the Fayette County, Ohio tower when the mechanical lift they were in overturned. This accident led...
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November 17, 2023 Texas
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 most...
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October 31, 2023 Abu Dhabi
High altitude pseudo satellite (HAPS) firm Mira Aerospace has successfully conducted a 5G connectivity trial from the stratosphere - which ranges from 4-12 miles (6-20 km) above the Earth's surface to around 31 miles (50km). Mira said in an announcement last week, “Our team is excited to announce...
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October 09, 2023 Texas
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...
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October 04, 2023 Ohio
An unnamed Fortune 200 tech company plans to build a $750 million data center campus on about 750 acres between Perrysburg and Bowling Green in northern Ohio. This company is also undergoing deals and negotiations through a shell company, Liames LLC. Middleton Township trustees discussed plans...
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October 03, 2023 Nebraska
Cushman & Wakefield has listed a data center for sale at 256 E. Grant Street in Blair. The asking price for this facility outside Omaha, Nebraska, is listed as $1.76 million on the site and $1.5 million in the sales brochure. The 7,564 sq ft (700 sqm) facility was built on six acres in...
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