Data Center News

Iron-sodium Battery Company Inlyte has Partnered with NTS to Deploy its Solution at a Data Center in Bern, Switzerland

Switzerland

US-based iron-sodium battery storage company Inlyte Energy has teamed up with Swiss data center operator NTS Colocation AG to roll out its technology across NTS’s facilities.The first initiative under the partnership will be a pilot installation at NTS’s data center in Bern. The companies have...

Cogent Completes Conversion of Former Sprint Sites into Data Centers, Continues Discussions Over Potential Sale of Facilities

The last couple of years have seen Cogent converting legacy technical buildings and switch sites previously used for Sprint’s wireline business into colocation data centers. The company has been looking to sell a number of those facilities on a wholesale basis. In October, Cogent signed a lett...

Ciena Launches New Optical Engine Designed For The AI-driven Data Center Era

United States

In its first new solution since acquiring Nubis Communications last year, Ciena continues to tackle data center AI demands with the launch of a flexible, high-density pluggable optical engine, Vesta 200 6.4T CPX. The new solution is claimed to reduce power consumption by up to 70 percent, whil...

President Trump Urges Big Tech to Develop Their Own Power Plants to Support Data Centers Across the US

United States

US President Donald Trump has directed major data center operators and technology companies to build their own power generation infrastructure to supply their facilities. Speaking during his annual State of the Union address, Trump argued that the move is necessary to prevent consumers from be...

Nvidia Posts Record Quarterly Data Center Revenue of $62.3 billion, Marking a 75% Year-over-year Increase

NVIDIA

Revenue was up 20 percent from the previous quarter and 73 percent on the same period last year. Data center specific revenue hit $62.3bn, up 22 percent from Q3 and up 75 percent from a year ago. For the full fiscal year 2026, revenue totaled $215.9 billion, representing a 65% increase year ov...

Microsoft to Begin Permitting Process for 1,385-acre Data Center campus in North Carolina

North Carolina

The technology firm acquired the 1,350-acre Person County Mega Park in Woodsdale Township back in November 2024, reportedly paying $26.85 million for the land. At the time, no plans for the site were shared.Kyle Puryear, Person County board of commissioners chairman, said: “Person County is pr...

ESR Plans to Develop a 60MW Data Center in Mumbai, India.

ESR Group

The company this week unveiled plans for a multi-story data center in the Rabale area of Mumbai, Maharashtra. The ESR Rabale MU1 Data Centre (MU1) will be developed on a 3.25-acre site and is designed to support up to 60MW of IT load. Total investment in the project is expected to reach $100 m...

CPower, Bentaus, and Supermicro Complete AI Data Center Energy Orchestration Pilot Project in California

United States

 In collaboration with Supermicro, US virtual power producer (VPP) CPower Energy and AI orchestration platform Bentaus have completed a joint demonstration project aimed at improving how AI compute interacts with the power grid.  As part of the trial, CPower transmitted real-time wholesale ele...

Vantage and Altarea Plan 400MW Data Center Development in Bordeaux, France

Vantage Data Centers

The campus, to be built on land owned by Altarea, is expected to rank among the largest data center developments in France, according to the companies. Altarea has already secured a 400MW grid connection for the site. However, the exact location and construction timeline have not been disclose...

Nexalus Selects Alps Alpine to Manufacture Liquid Cooling Kits for Data Centers

AWS EU Ireland Region (eu-west-1)

 The partnership will combine Nexalus’s expertise in advanced science, thermal engineering, and system-level design with Alps Alpine’s automotive-grade manufacturing capabilities, quality systems, and global operational presence. Together, the companies “form a unified platform capable of deli...

Mississippi Governor Labels Data Center Moratoriums as “Civilizational Suicide”

Mississippi

The governor of Mississippi hit back at calls to pause data center construction across the US. Governor Tate Reeves claimed that those seeking a data center moratorium were "yearning to submit our society to outside forces: mobs, international councils, or communist China.""I understand indivi...

Google Plans to Develop a “Clean Energy” Colocated Data Center in Wilbarger County, Texas

Google

Google has announced a new data center in Wilbarger County, Texas, to be powered by onsite ‘clean energy’ from US energy firm AES. AES has secured the land and grid interconnection agreements for the project and will construct the shared electrical infrastructure needed to support the co-locat...

EQT-backed Scale Acquires Powered Land Specialist Reload to Expand its Data Center Footprint

EQT

EQT-backed US energy developer Scale has acquired Reload, a US-based provider of powered land for data centers.“We’re excited to partner with Scale, whose operational expertise combined with access to EQT’s long-term, forward-thinking capital and industrial insight will help us achieve a truly...

Modular vs. Traditional Data Centers: Which Design Wins?

United States

The global digital economy depends on data centers. Every AI model trained, financial transaction processed, cloud application delivered, and video streamed relies on physical infrastructure engineered for reliability, scalability, and efficiency. As demand increases, driven by artificial inte...

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

Meta

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...

NDSU and RII Launch Study Exploring the Reuse of Data Center Waste Heat for Greenhouses in North Dakota

North Dakota

Researchers at North Dakota State University (NDSU) and Resource Innovation Institute have formally launched a public-private research initiative to assess the possibility of colocating large-scale greenhouses with data centers in North Dakota.As part of the initiative, US data center operator...

Starwood is Seeking to Acquire County-owned Land in Fairfax, Virginia, For The Development of a Data Center

Starwood Digital Ventures

As reported by Bizjournal and others, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors last week authorized a public meeting on plans to sell county-owned land to SCG Global Holdings LLC, a known affiliate of Starwood.The 28-acre property at 3721 Stonecroft Boulevard in Chantilly is currently home to t...

US Utility PPL Reports 23% Increase in Data Center Pipeline, Reaching 25.2GW.

United States

In its latest earnings report, the utility said that it now expects at least 10GW of data center load to be signed under Electricity Service Agreements (ESA) by the end of Q1. Vincent Sorgi, president of PPL, said during the call that he believes “ all of the 25.2GW of projects have a high pro...

Top Data Center News for 16th-22nd of February, 2026.

United States

Kevin O’Leary Targets 7.5GW Data Center Development in UtahTV’s Kevin O’Leary is plotting a second “Wonder Valley” development, this time in the US state of Utah, and says the scheme could offer up to 7.5GW of power for hyperscale data centers.Adani Plans to Develop 5GW of Data Center Capacity...

PJM Greenlights $11.8bn Transmission Expansion as Data Center Growth Surges

Virginia

 US’ largest grid operator, PJM Interconnection, has approved an $11.8 billion transmission expansion plan to keep up with surging data center connection requests across its footprint. The Regional Transmission Operator (RTO) serves all or parts of 15 states across the East Coast and South of ...