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

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

August 05, 2025 Ohio

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...

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Read Edged unveils new data center in New Albany, Ohio
Edged unveils new data center in New Albany, Ohio

Edged unveils new data center in New Albany, Ohio

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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Read Expedient unveils new facility in Columbus, Ohio
Expedient unveils new facility in Columbus, Ohio

Expedient unveils new facility in Columbus, Ohio

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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Read Ohio firefighters killed in a tower maintenance accident
Ohio firefighters killed in a tower maintenance accident

Ohio firefighters killed in a tower maintenance accident

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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Read ‘Fortune 200 tech company’ looks to build $750m campus in northern Ohio
‘Fortune 200 tech company’ looks to build $750m campus in northern Ohio

‘Fortune 200 tech company’ looks to build $750m campus in northern Ohio

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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Read University of Minnesota permits $40 million data center property sale to Meta
University of Minnesota permits $40 million data center property sale to Meta

University of Minnesota permits $40 million data center property sale to Meta

September 08, 2023 Meta

The University of Minnesota (UoM) Board of Regents has authorized the $39.7 million land sale to Meta. The 280-acre tract of land in UMore Park has been sold to Jimnist LLC, a subsidiary of Meta, for a data center. The land that comprises UMore Park is located in Rosemount and is bordered by...

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Read Meta confirms $700m Minnesota data center venture
Meta confirms $700m Minnesota data center venture

Meta confirms $700m Minnesota data center venture

September 05, 2023 Meta

Social network Meta is supporting a new Minneapolis data center project. Late last week, a Minnesota Public Utilities Commission document confirmed Meta's $700 million Minneapolis data center project. Xcel Energy announced an 'enterprise data center' project with a Fortune 100 company in November...

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Read Northern Ohio will see the construction of a 600-acre data center
Northern Ohio will see the construction of a 600-acre data center

Northern Ohio will see the construction of a 600-acre data center

September 01, 2023 Ohio

A data center construction is proposed for the northern Ohio region outside Toledo. The Blade reports that preparations are underway to locate a data center on hundreds of acres in Middleton Township, west of Interstate 75 and near the intersection of State Routes 582 and 25. Details regarding...

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Read Costs projected to rise as meta capex for data centers, servers, and networks reaches $6.4 billion
Costs projected to rise as meta capex for data centers, servers, and networks reaches $6.4 billion

Costs projected to rise as meta capex for data centers, servers, and networks reaches $6.4 billion

July 28, 2023 Meta

In the last quarter, Meta's capital expenditures reached $6.4 billion due to investments in data centers, servers, and network infrastructure. This is a decrease from the $7.1 billion the company spent in the previous quarter, but the Facebook proprietor is now done with a data center...

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Read Meta shares details on AI progress and data center redesign
Meta shares details on AI progress and data center redesign

Meta shares details on AI progress and data center redesign

May 25, 2023 Meta

After announcing that it was canceling or pausing data center projects that were in mid-development last year, Meta has finally revealed some details on its AI-optimized data centers. The giant has shared that it is working on a custom chip "family" to bolster the efficiency of its data centers,...

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Read rPlus Energies signs 200MW PPA with Idaho Power, supporting Meta
rPlus Energies signs 200MW PPA with Idaho Power, supporting Meta

rPlus Energies signs 200MW PPA with Idaho Power, supporting Meta

May 24, 2023 Meta

rPlus Energies has announced that it has signed a 200MW power purchase agreement (PPA) with Idaho Power, which has a special energy services agreement with Meta; output from the project will go into the same grid supporting Meta's new Kuna data center. The Ada County, Idaho solar farm, known as...

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Read Water requirements for Meta’s Toledo town data center released
Water requirements for Meta’s Toledo town data center released

Water requirements for Meta’s Toledo town data center released

May 18, 2023 Meta

Details regarding Meta's water consumption at a planned data center in Toledo have been released, revealing that yearly the facility will guzzle an estimated 660 million gallons of water. The facility was given the green light by Castilla-La Mancha back in March as a PSI, due to the economic...

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Read The circular economy in action at Meta's Gallatin data center through new mushroom project
The circular economy in action at Meta's Gallatin data center through new mushroom project

The circular economy in action at Meta's Gallatin data center through new mushroom project

April 27, 2023 Meta

In an effort to curb construction waste, Meta has announced a new project that is using mushrooms to help mitigate some of the 660 million tons of waste sent to landfills and incinerators each year. The giant has been working with Mycocycle, a tech company in the zero-waste market, to pilot the...

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Read Meta Redesigned its Data Center After Abandoning AI Chip Rollout And Switching to Nvidia GPUs
Meta Redesigned its Data Center After Abandoning AI Chip Rollout And Switching to Nvidia GPUs

Meta Redesigned its Data Center After Abandoning AI Chip Rollout And Switching to Nvidia GPUs

April 26, 2023 Meta

Reuters reports that Meta abandoned plans to release its own artificial intelligence processor and instead adopted Nvidia GPUs. Initial use of CPUs for AI training and chips for inference caused the company to fall behind in AI development. The switch to GPUs necessitated the redesign of its data...

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Read Meta signs PPA in Texas
Meta signs PPA in Texas

Meta signs PPA in Texas

March 23, 2023 Meta

Meta has announced that it has signed a new PPA for solar energy. The PPA, with Avangrid, will see the giant source 240MW of energy from the True North solar farm which is currently under development in Falls County, Texas, the former's first in the state. The solar farm is set to launch in early...

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Read Meta Will Terminate 10,000 More Workers
Meta Will Terminate 10,000 More Workers

Meta Will Terminate 10,000 More Workers

March 15, 2023 Meta

After letting go of around 11,000 workers in the latter part of last year, Meta aims to let go of about 10,000 individuals. As part of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's 'Year of Efficiency' appeal to investors to improve a falling share price, the corporation will also eliminate 5,000 unfilled positions....

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Read More layoffs in store at Meta
More layoffs in store at Meta

More layoffs in store at Meta

March 13, 2023 Meta

Meta's job cuts continue, with the announcement last week that the giant is driving forward with its so-called "year of efficiency." CEO Mark Zuckerberg first announced massive cuts back in November; now, thousands more are set to be laid off. According to experts, while the first cuts were a...

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Read Meta Sells Mesa Property to EdgeCore Data Centers
Meta Sells Mesa Property to EdgeCore Data Centers

Meta Sells Mesa Property to EdgeCore Data Centers

February 24, 2023 Meta

Meta has sold a property in Mesa, Arizona, to the developer of data centers, EdgeCore Internet Real Estate, for $1.2 million. The lot, situated at 3856 S. Everton Terrace and comprising approximately 15 acres of land, has been acquired by EdgeCore as part of its substantial investment in the...

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Read Meta Plans To Save $4bn On Data Centers And Create New AI Facilities Faster and Cheaper
Meta Plans To Save $4bn On Data Centers And Create New AI Facilities Faster and Cheaper

Meta Plans To Save $4bn On Data Centers And Create New AI Facilities Faster and Cheaper

February 08, 2023 Meta

In a cost-cutting effort, Meta claims to have rebuilt its data centers to be less expensive and quicker to build. Meta canceled or paused data centers worldwide and redesigned them for additional artificial intelligence demands late last year. Facebook's Danish data center development and Texas,...

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Read Meta signs solar PPA with BP for solar farm in Ohio
Meta signs solar PPA with BP for solar farm in Ohio

Meta signs solar PPA with BP for solar farm in Ohio

January 12, 2023 Meta

Meta has signed a PPA with BP to source renewable energy from an upcoming a 134MWdc (107MWac), 675-acre Arche Solar farm project in Ohio, developed by BP 50:50 joint-venture partner and subsidiary Lightsource BP. The social media company will reportedly receive 100% of the power from the site. BP...

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