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Meta Veteran Sham Parmar Joins Anthropic Supply Chain Operations

Meta’s Sham Parmar has joined generative AI company Anthropic. Parmar previously served as senior manager for supply chain and engineering, overseeing electrical, mechanical, and fiber connectivity systems. "I'm excited to share that I've joined Anthropic as a supply chain lead, power and coo...

June 16, 2026

Meta

Private Equity Firm Acquires Croatia’s ‘Fort Knox’ Data Center

Gnomon Capital has acquired 100% of Croatian data center DC North, known as the “Fort Knox” facility, in a deal involving former owners Cratis and Muraplast. Court records show the transfer was completed in late May, with Gnomon now listed as the sole shareholder. DC North was launched by Crat...

June 13, 2026

Meta

Meta Signs 168MW Data Center Pact at Reliance Gujarat Campus

Meta and Reliance are partnering to develop a 168MW data center in Jamnagar, Gujarat, India. Reliance will build the facility, which Meta will lease to run AI workloads. The project may be expanded in the future, though no launch timeline has been disclosed. Meta will cover power and water costs,...

June 10, 2026

Meta

Data Center Operators are Hiring Laid-off Meta Platforms Workers

Several data center operators have pointed to open roles after Meta Platforms began laying off around 8,000 employees, about 10% of its workforce. The cuts affected staff across all levels, including some in data center roles. On LinkedIn, multiple data center firms expressed support for affec...

May 22, 2026

Meta

Meta Begins Laying off 8,000 Employees, Including Data Center Staff

Meta has begun laying off 8,000 employees globally as part of a broader restructuring tied to its growing AI and data center investments. The company plans to reduce its workforce by around 10 percent to free up cash flow for expanded data center spending. At the same time, Meta has canceled p...

May 20, 2026

Meta

$1.6bn Cleveland Data Center Plan Rejected

Cleveland, Ohio, has turned down Lakeland Equity Group’s $1.6 billion plan to develop a data center campus. Mayor Justin M. Bibb announced on May 14 that the city had denied the permit for the proposed facility, which was planned for a 35-acre site at 3560 E 55th St. Lakeland described the pro...

May 18, 2026

Ohio

Developers Submit Plans for $1.6 Billion Data Center in Cleveland, Ohio

Private credit firm Lakeland Equity Group has filed plans for a $1.6 billion data center project in Cleveland, Ohio. The proposal outlines a 150MW campus on a 35-acre site at 3560 E 55th St, currently owned by trucking company Morabito Enterprises. The development could include three two-story...

May 08, 2026

Ohio

Columbus Data Center Acquired by Occupier

Real estate firm Five 9s Digital has sold a data center in Columbus, Ohio, with colocation provider Expedient understood to be the buyer. “Five 9s Digital announced the successful sale of a 6MW single-tenant data center in Columbus, Ohio, to its long-term tenant,” the company said this week. ...

April 30, 2026

Ohio

Meta Begins Construction on Tulsa Data Center

Meta has broken ground on its first data center in Oklahoma, beginning construction on a campus in Tulsa. The project is expected to involve around $1 billion in investment, with the company confirming it is behind the 340-acre Project Anthem development, according to News On 6. First proposed...

April 22, 2026

Meta

Ohio Republican Urges Data Center to Forgo Tax Subsidy

Ohio state senator Bernie Moreno has urged the backers of a $136m data center to forgo tax subsidies tied to its planned expansion. In a public letter on Monday, he argued that the economic benefits of expanding the Ark Data Centers campus do not justify the subsidies.The expansion would creat...

March 19, 2026

Ohio

New Data Center Build Confirmed in Adams County, Ohio

A new data center has been confirmed for Adams County, Ohio, at the former Dayton Power & Light landfill site. According to a regulatory filing from AES Ohio, the proposed operator has requested an initial electricity load of 100MW in 2028, rising to 1.3GW by 2032.Since the filing, the US ...

March 12, 2026

Ohio

Meta Signs Pre-development Agreement for Data Center in Beloit, Wisconsin

Meta Platforms has reportedly signed a pre-development agreement with the Town of Beloit for a potential data center project in southern Wisconsin. According to the Beloit Daily News, the facility could be built on a 430-acre site located between Town Line Road, South Prairie Avenue, and East ...

March 05, 2026

Meta

Meta Plans to Deploy 366MW of Modular Gas-fired Units to Support a 1GW Data Center in El Paso, Texas

The 1GW project, which broke ground in October, would be powered by 813 modular generators, slated to come online by 2027. The units are expected to cost $473 million. The proposal has also drawn opposition from environmental and community organizations. For instance, the Sembrando Esperanza C...

February 23, 2026

Meta

Muhlenberg, Ohio, Imposes One-year Moratorium on New Data Center Projects

The Ohio township of Muhlenberg has introduced a 12-month moratorium on planning applications for new data centers after residents voiced concerns about a digital infrastructure and energy campus being planned nearby.In comments reported by the Circleville Herald, trustee Jeff Wippel said the ...

February 17, 2026

Ohio

Meta Unveils Plans for a 1GW Data Center Campus in Indiana

Meta is building a gigawatt-scale data center campus near Indianapolis, Indiana. “This facility represents an investment of over $10 billion in data center infrastructure and the surrounding community, one of our largest infrastructure investments to date,” the company said.“The data center w...

February 11, 2026

Meta

500,000 Square Feet Data Center Development Targeted for Scioto County, Ohio

A company behind the affiliate Tilted Gate LLC is looking to develop a data center in Scioto County. The Scioto County commission said the center would be built in the Franklin Furnace area, specifically the Haverhill part of the county. The Scioto County commission has made its own announceme...

January 08, 2026

Ohio

Gridmatic Expands into Ohio

US power marketer Gridmatic has expanded into Ohio, with the launch of its Gridmatic Retail product in the state which will offer both standard and advanced energy contracts to a range of commercial and individual customers, including data centers and other consumers with flexible loads.“We’re...

October 16, 2025

Ohio

Rezoning Requests Approved for Data Center in Ohio

Rezoning requests for a data center outside Toledo, Ohio, have been approved. The land parcels are located in Oregon, a city in Lucas County east of Toledo. The Oregon City Council unanimously approved requests for seven land parcels totaling 20 acres to be rezoned from ‘Agricultural District’...

September 01, 2025

Ohio

$10m Natural Gas Pipeline to Supply Onsite Fuel Cell Facility at Ohio Facility

Aspire Energy Express, the Ohio subsidiary of Chesapeake Utilities, has partnered with American Electric Power (AEP) to build and operate an intrastate natural gas pipeline to serve a fuel cell facility set to power a data center behind-the-meter. The new natural gas pipeline will cost approxi...

August 05, 2025

Ohio

Edged unveils new data center in New Albany, 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 buil...

August 14, 2024

Ohio

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