Data Center News

Local Officials Reject Proposed Data Center in New Brunswick, New Jersey

New Jersey

Local authorities in New Brunswick, New Jersey, voted on Wednesday against allowing the construction of a data center on a plot of land slated for redevelopment, instead requiring that a park be built on the site. The New Brunswick City Council was reviewing a proposal for the Jersey-Sandford ...

Ontario Legislator Says Data Center May be Headed to Sarnia-Lambton

Ontario

A new data center could be coming to Ontario, Canada. Bob Bailey, a member of Ontario’s Provincial Parliament, said on Thursday that a data center could be coming to the southern border city of Sarnia.Bailey suggested the proposed data center would deliver at least 100MW of capacity, noting th...

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 ...

115-acre Data Center May be Developed in Osawatomie, Kansas

Kansas

A 115-acre data center project could come to Osawatomie, Kansas, says the local government.“The city has entered into a predevelopment agreement with Alcove Development to explore the feasibility of a potential data center campus,” reads a post by the City of Osawatomie. Alcove’s proposed data...

STT GDC India Opens New Chennai Data Center, Eyes Potential IPO

India / Bhārata

APAC data center firm ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has launched a new facility in Chennai, India. It made the announcement this week with the opening of its second campus in the city, at Siruseri.Bimal Khandelwal, STT GDC India CEO, said: “The launch of our fourth data centre in ...

SpaceX Unveils Space Tracking Platform, Plans to Share Data At No Cost

United States

 Satellite operator SpaceX unveiled Stargaze, a novel SSA platform that uses 30,000 star trackers on its 9,600-satellite fleet to track surrounding objects in orbit and measure their speeds. “While Stargaze embodies a major improvement to the ability of any operator to fly safely, it is impera...

Proposed Moratorium Puts Planned Maine Data Center at Risk

Maine

Proposals to bring in a data center moratorium in Maine have threatened plans for a new campus in the Pine Tree State. The proposed bill, sponsored by Representative Melanie Sachs, includes a two-year moratorium on facilities above 20MW in the state while the impacts of data centers are studie...

DG Matrix Secures $60m to Scale Solid-State Transformer for Data Center Market

United States

US solid state transformer developer DG Matrix has raised $60 million as part of its Series A funding, led by Engine Ventures.“This Series A marks our transition from breakthrough technology to scaled infrastructure deployment,” said Haroon Inam, CEO of DG Matrix. “We are working with hypersca...

OpenAI Teams up with Tata to Expand Data Center Capacity in India

OpenAI

TCS’ HyperVault unit and OpenAI have agreed to a multi-year partnership to develop AI infrastructure in India. In the initial phase, TCS will develop AI infrastructure with 100MW of capacity, with an option to scale to 1GW.Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI, said: “India is already leading the way in AI ...

Plans Unveiled for Data Center on 60-hectare site in Finnish Lapland

Finnish Lapland

Finnish energy company Pohjan Voima is looking to develop a project in Keminmaa. In other Finnish news, Compute Nordic is expanding its landholdings in Mikkeli, while another company is targeting a development in Närpiö on the country's west coast.“The project would be of great importance to K...

Cryptominer NFN8 Files for Bankruptcy after Data Center Fire and Bitcoin Slump

United States

Cryptominer NFN8 Group has filed for bankruptcy protection in Texas, with all of its assets put up for sale. The company pointed to a number of business challenges that had put pressure on its revenue line, but blamed a late 2025 data center fire for causing bankruptcy."For lessors whose miner...

Kevin O’Leary Targets 7.5GW Data Center Development in Utah

Utah

TV’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."We have under development approximately 26,000 acres across two jurisdictions with the infrastructure necess...

50MW Data Center Proposal Progresses in Certosa di Pavia, Italy

Italy

Plans by Italian real estate developer GSM to build a 50MW data center outside the town of Certosa di Pavia in Italy’s Lombardy region have advanced.“We consider this project an affront to our territory and, for this reason, we are carefully analyzing the technical documentation, which has onl...

Zeo Energy to Supply 280MW of Power for Creekstone Energy's up to 10GW Data Center Campus in Millard County, Utah

Utah

US clean energy company Zeo Energy Corp has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with AI data center company Creekstone Energy to develop 280MW of solar and storage capacity for Creekstone’s data center campus in Millard County, Utah.“AI workloads are driving unprecedented demand for pow...

xAI faces legal action from SELC over gas turbine use at Memphis facility

xAI

The US environmental non-profit Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), alongside other environmental groups, is preparing to sue xAI over the deployment of unpermitted gas turbines powering its Colossus 2 data center in Memphis, Tennessee.“xAI has once again built a polluting power plant wi...

Oklahoma House Committee Moves Forward Bill on Data Center Grid Costs

Oklahoma

An Oklahoma House budget subcommittee has approved legislation aimed at protecting residential ratepayers from having to foot the bill for new infrastructure driven by rising data center demand.“This would make sure that regular ratepayers aren’t having to pay for those really high energy cost...

Adani Plans to Develop 5GW of Data Center Capacity Across India

AdaniConneX

Indian conglomerate Adani is more than doubling its data center development pipeline. The company this week announced plans to invest $100 billion in developing renewable-energy-powered, hyperscale AI-ready data centers by 2035."The world is entering an Intelligence Revolution more profound th...

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

Ohio

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 ...

Anthropic CEO Cautions on Risks of Poorly Timed AI Data Center Investments

United States

The CEO of generative AI firm Anthropic warned that the purchase of escalating data center compute costs could be "ruinous" for the company if timed wrong."I really do believe that we could have models that are a country of geniuses in the data center in one to two years," he said."One questio...

Top Data Center News for 9th-14th February, 2026

Meta Unveils Plans for a 1GW Data Center Campus in Indiana Meta is building a gigawatt-scale data center campus near Indianapolis, Indiana which represents an investment of over $10 billion in data center infrastructure and the surrounding community, one of Meta’s largest infrastructure invest...