October 24, 2024 Texas
Sabey Data Centers has announced the completion of the first 430,000-square-foot (39,950 sqm) building at its new campus in the Round Rock area of Austin. The SDC Austin campus will offer up to 84MW of critical power capacity across two buildings at full build-out. Building A is designed to...
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October 09, 2024 Arizona
Chipmaker TSMC has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with US semiconductor product packaging and test services company, Amkor Technology. Following their agreement, Amkor will provide TSMC with turnkey advanced packaging and test services at its planned outsourced semiconductor assembly...
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September 27, 2024 Texas
A Houston, Texas, facility has received $40 million in investment to be upgraded as an artificial intelligence (AI) data center. This site is located at 11445 Compaq Center W. Drive and is part of the 66-acre Viva Center campus at State Highway 249 and Louetta Road. The $40 million will be used...
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September 06, 2024 Texas
Duos Technology, a company specializing in machine vision and AI to analyze fast-moving objects including trains, this week announced the launch of its first Edge data center at the Region 16 Education Service Center in Amarillo. Doug Recker, president of Duos Edge AI said Amarillo is a location...
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August 31, 2024 Arizona
Tract, a developer of master-planned data center parks, this week announced its acquisition of a 2,069-acre land parcel in the Buckeye area of Maricopa County. This park could potentially see up to 20 million square feet of data center space developed across as many as 40 individual data centers...
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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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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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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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March 18, 2024 Arizona
The US government is set to award Intel $8.5 billion in direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act as confirmed by the Department of Commerce on Tuesday. Intel is also to get an additional $11bn in low-interest rate loans and a 25 percent investment tax credit on up to $100 billion of Intel’s...
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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 23, 2023 Arizona
Arizona State University (ASU) is set to receive $17.5 million worth of investment from the Arizona Commerce Authority (ACA) to expand the state’s advanced semiconductor manufacturing capabilities. Sandra Watson, president and CEO of the ACA said, “This new investment showcases Arizona’s...
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December 13, 2023 Arizona
Social network company Meta announced this week that it has signed a new renewable energy deal in Arizona with Ørsted to support its Mesa data center with new solar energy from the Salt River Project. Following this contract, the social network company will receive most of the output of Ørsted's...
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December 07, 2023 Arizona
Dutch chip equipment manufacturer ASM International has announced it plans to invest €300 million over a five-year period to expand its R&D efforts in Arizona. The company mentioned that this new 20-acre facility, set to be located in Scottsdale, will create an additional 500 jobs in software...
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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 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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