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Read Google Identified as User Behind 1,200MW Goochland Data Center Campus
Google is considering a 1,200MW data center campus on about 1,000 acres in Goochland County, Virginia, the county confirmed on Oct. 28. The [county's announcement](https://www.goochlandva.us/) name...

Google Identified as User Behind 1,200MW Goochland Data Center Campus

October 29, 2026 Richmond

Google is considering a 1,200MW data center campus on about 1,000 acres in Goochland County, Virginia, the county confirmed on Oct. 28. The county's announcement named Google as the company behind a project that appeared in Virginia regulatory filings in July without an identified owner....

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Read Amazon Settles With Two Former AWS Managers Over Data Center Kickbacks
Amazon has settled its civil claims against two former AWS real estate managers it accused of taking kickbacks on Northern Virginia data center deals. The ![alamy.com](/rails/active_storage/represe...

Amazon Settles With Two Former AWS Managers Over Data Center Kickbacks

October 27, 2026 Northern Virginia

Amazon has settled its civil claims against two former AWS real estate managers it accused of taking kickbacks on Northern Virginia data center deals. The company told a federal court on October 20 that it had reached the agreement with Carl Nelson and Casey Kirschner, less than two weeks before...

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Read ZutaCore Unveils Two-Phase Matrix Flow Boiling for AI Cold Plates
ZutaCore unveiled Two-Phase Matrix Flow Boiling, the cooling architecture inside its OmniTherm cold plate family, at OCP Global Summit 2026 on Oct. 13. The Foster City, California, company builds w...

ZutaCore Unveils Two-Phase Matrix Flow Boiling for AI Cold Plates

October 26, 2026 San Francisco Bay Area

ZutaCore unveiled Two-Phase Matrix Flow Boiling, the cooling architecture inside its OmniTherm cold plate family, at OCP Global Summit 2026 on Oct. 13. The Foster City, California, company builds waterless, direct-to-chip two-phase liquid cooling for AI and high-performance computing servers. The...

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Read Microsoft Files for 422MW Three-Building Data Center Campus in Rome, Georgia
Microsoft filed for state review on October 20 of a three-building data center campus in Rome, Georgia, with 422MW of planned capacity. The [Development of Regional Impact application](https://dca....

Microsoft Files for 422MW Three-Building Data Center Campus in Rome, Georgia

October 22, 2026 Atlanta

Microsoft filed for state review on October 20 of a three-building data center campus in Rome, Georgia, with 422MW of planned capacity. The Development of Regional Impact application covers 349 acres at 0 Huffaker Road and 1,659,000 square feet of floor space. Microsoft owns the land, bought in...

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Read Virginia Senator Perry Proposes Three-Year Statewide Data Center Moratorium
State Sen. Russet Perry on Tuesday released draft legislation that would halt approvals for new data centers across Virginia for three years, escalating the political fight over the industry's grow...

Virginia Senator Perry Proposes Three-Year Statewide Data Center Moratorium

October 15, 2026 Northern Virginia

State Sen. Russet Perry on Tuesday released draft legislation that would halt approvals for new data centers across Virginia for three years, escalating the political fight over the industry's growth in the world's largest data center market. Senate Bill 843 would take effect July 1, 2027...

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Read 2026 Is the Year Texas Passes Virginia in Data Center Capacity
[Texas](https://baxtel.com/data-center/texas) now has more data center capacity operating and under construction than [Virginia](https://baxtel.com/data-center/virginia). Baxtel tracks 28.3 GW buil...

2026 Is the Year Texas Passes Virginia in Data Center Capacity

October 13, 2026 Northern Virginia

Texas now has more data center capacity operating and under construction than Virginia. Baxtel tracks 28.3 GW built or building in Texas, against 17.8 GW in Virginia. On capacity already online, Virginia still leads, 12.3 GW to 11.1 GW. If projects scheduled for this year deliver on time, Texas...

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Read NetworkOcean Runs Solar-Powered GPU Data Center on San Francisco Bay
San Francisco startup NetworkOcean says it has become the first company to run customer AI workloads from a solar-powered floating data center. The company operated a single Nvidia H100 GPU powered...

NetworkOcean Runs Solar-Powered GPU Data Center on San Francisco Bay

October 03, 2026 San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco startup NetworkOcean says it has become the first company to run customer AI workloads from a solar-powered floating data center. The company operated a single Nvidia H100 GPU powered by a 20kW solar array during a trial in San Francisco Bay. The customer was not disclosed....

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Read Equifax to Decommission Data Center outside Atlanta
Equifax to Decommission Data Center outside Atlanta

Equifax to Decommission Data Center outside Atlanta

September 12, 2025 Atlanta

The City of Alpharetta last week announced that Equifax was investing $25 million to expand its Alpharetta campus, located in Fulton County. The expansion includes the renovation of the third floor of the JV White 1 building, converting it from a data center into collaborative office space. “The...

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Read Phoenix to clamp down on data centers
Phoenix to clamp down on data centers

Phoenix to clamp down on data centers

January 02, 2025 Phoenix

The city of Phoenix in Arizona is set to clamp down on data centers. The City Council has approved a series of changes to better regulate data center growth in the city, including regulating locations and external design specifications.The vote, which took place on December 10, targeted...

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Read Synergy Group names Northern Virginia, Beijing, and Dublin as top 3 hyperscale locations
Synergy Group names Northern Virginia, Beijing, and Dublin as top 3 hyperscale locations

Synergy Group names Northern Virginia, Beijing, and Dublin as top 3 hyperscale locations

August 23, 2024 Northern Virginia

A report from Synergy Research Group found that just twenty state or metro markets account for 62 percent of the world’s current hyperscale data center capacity. Northern Virginia tops this list while the Greater Beijing Area takes the second place, with both making up 22 percent of global...

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Read Atlanta City Council members propose new bill to block data center developments
Atlanta City Council members propose new bill to block data center developments

Atlanta City Council members propose new bill to block data center developments

May 10, 2024 Atlanta

Atlanta City Councilmen Jason Dozier and Matt Westmoreland have introduced bills to block data center developments around certain areas of the Georgia city near transit stops and the Beltline. “Excited to introduce legislation alongside Matt Westmoreland to address the rapid growth of data...

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Read Lightmatter officially becomes a unicorn
Lightmatter officially becomes a unicorn

Lightmatter officially becomes a unicorn

December 19, 2023 Boston

Photonic computing company Lightmatter has now been crowned a Unicorn, raising $155 million at a $1.2 billion valuation. This funding is part of the series C investment round, which helped the company raise $154 million in May, successfully tripling the company’s value at the time. Overall,...

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Read OpenAI president Greg Brockman quits as the company fires CEO
OpenAI president Greg Brockman quits as the company fires CEO

OpenAI president Greg Brockman quits as the company fires CEO

November 20, 2023 San Francisco Bay Area

OpenAI's co-founder and president, Greg Brockman, has quit the company after the board suddenly fired CEO Sam Altman last week. Brockman, who was initially made to step down as board chairman, has left the company. The board is yet to disclose the exact reason for firing Altman as the company...

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Read OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman fired from the company
OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman fired from the company

OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman fired from the company

November 19, 2023 San Francisco Bay Area

OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman has been fired as CEO of the artificial intelligence startup as the board denounces confidence in his leadership. In a statement released by the company, the board noted that it “no longer has confidence in his ability to lead.” Mira Murati, OpenAI’s chief technology...

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Read Data center design standards approved by Leesburg Town Council in Loudoun
Data center design standards approved by Leesburg Town Council in Loudoun

Data center design standards approved by Leesburg Town Council in Loudoun

August 16, 2023 Northern Virginia

Leesburg's Loudoun County Council unanimously approved data center design criteria. Unlike Ashburn, Virginia's Leesburg has no data centers; however, this may change. Three rezoning petitions may allow data center development in town. One is in the Oaklawn neighborhood, one close to the...

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Read Developers in San Jose, California, switch hotel plans for data center development
Developers in San Jose, California, switch hotel plans for data center development

Developers in San Jose, California, switch hotel plans for data center development

August 08, 2023 San Francisco Bay Area

Plans for an entertainment district development in San Jose, California, have been scrapped and replaced with data center plans, it has been announced. Back in 2018, developer Terra Ventures had initially pitched for development known as 'Shops @ Terra'; this would have been an...

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Read Edged Energy begins work on Atlanta data center
Edged Energy begins work on Atlanta data center

Edged Energy begins work on Atlanta data center

July 04, 2023 Atlanta

Construction on Edge Energy's Atlanta, Georgia data center is underway, with the company commencing work on July 1st. Located at Tilford Yard, the company bought the 158 acre-site back in July 2021; 70 acres will be dedicated to data center development. In January 2023, it filed a building...

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Read Prince William County locals want a data center developer to buy property outside Gainesville
Prince William County locals want a data center developer to buy property outside Gainesville

Prince William County locals want a data center developer to buy property outside Gainesville

June 28, 2023 Northern Virginia

Residents of Prince William County, Virginia, are attempting to sell their land to an unidentified data center developer. According to InsideNoVa, residents of Sanders Lane near Gainesville are attempting to sell their land to a data center developer. The residents appear to be attempting to...

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Read Phoenix Data center with 6 MW up for sale
Phoenix Data center with 6 MW up for sale

Phoenix Data center with 6 MW up for sale

June 27, 2023 Phoenix

A 6MW data facility is up for lease or purchase in Phoenix, Arizona. Located in the desirable Deer Valley neighborhood, CBRE has listed 20435 North 26th Avenue for sale or lease. There was no listed pricing. The 6MW facility was completed in 2003 and sits on 3.66 acres of land, with a raised...

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Read Virginia's Culpeper County Receive Permit Requests For Zoning of Two 4.46M Sq Ft Data Center Campuses
Virginia's Culpeper County Receive Permit Requests For Zoning of Two 4.46M Sq Ft Data Center Campuses

Virginia's Culpeper County Receive Permit Requests For Zoning of Two 4.46M Sq Ft Data Center Campuses

May 25, 2023 Northern Virginia

The Virginian county of Culpeper may soon see the construction of more than four million square feet of data centers. The Culpeper Town and County Councils have received rezoning requests that would enable the construction of approximately 17 buildings on two campuses on the town's border...

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