Data Center News

Iron Mountain Breaks Ground on 85MW Data Center in Mumbai, India

Colocation firm Iron Mountain has broken ground on its planned 85MW data center campus in Mumbai, India. An opening date for the facility has not been disclosed, but once complete, it will complement Iron Mountain’s two existing facilities in Mumbai, which offer a total of 8.3MW.Writing on Lin...

Tract expands into Illinois with plans for 1GW data center park

Tract

Data center park developer Tract is expanding into Chicago, Illinois. The campus, located off I-80 and Highway 6 in Morris, can reportedly support up to 1GW at full build-out across ~2.9 million sq ft of data center capacity. Initial energization is targeted for June 2028, and a full 1GW load ...

DC Blox Secures $240 Million in Holdco Financing

DC BLOX

US data center operator DC Blox has secured $240 million in holdco financing from BlackRock subsidiary Global Infrastructure Partners. Holdco financing is a financial instrument that allows an investing parent company like GIP to raise debt on behalf of a subsidiary like DC Blox. “We are excit...

Verizon Secures Approval for $20bn Frontier Acquisition

Verizon Enterprise

Verizon has secured all regulatory approvals to close its acquisition of Frontier Communications. It comes as the carrier this week received approval from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to push ahead with the deal.“California isn’t just approving a merger, we’re securing rea...

Keppel secures rights to 720MW data center campus outside Melbourne, Australia

Keppel Data Center REIT

Keppel this week said its Connectivity Division has secured the rights to lease a 123-hectare contiguous site near Morwell, Victoria, with a gross power capacity of up to 720MW, from Australian energy and infrastructure landowner Lightwood Group.Manjot Singh Mann, CEO of Connectivity, Keppel, ...

PowerHouse Data Centers leases data center to unnamed hyperscaler at Arcola campus in Virginia

PowerHouse Data Centers

PowerHouse Data Centers has signed an unnamed hyperscaler at its PowerHouse Arcola campus in Loudoun County, Virginia. The lease is described as long-term, though it has not been stated if the hyperscaler will take up all the capacity at the campus. "PowerHouse Arcola's lease execution undersc...

Google Expands 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy Partnership with Engie

Google

Google has expanded its 24/7 carbon-free energy (CFE) partnership with renewable energy developer Engie in Germany until 2030. The expansion will see the companies integrate battery energy storage systems (BESS) and additional renewable Power Purchase Agreements into the CFE mechanism.“We are ...

Zoho Corp Launches Two Data Center Regions in UAE

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Indian cloud and managed IT service provider Zoho Corp has opened two data center locations in the UAE. The data centers are located in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, and are part of a AED 100 million ($27.23m) investment plan for the region Zoho announced in 2023."The opening of our data centers is par...

Avaio to Develop $6bn Data Center Campus in Little Rock, Arkansas

AVAIO Digital Partners

Avaio Digital Partners this week announced plans for a new data center hub near Little Rock in Pulaski County, Arkansas. Known as Avaio Digital Leo, Avaio is currently contracted with Entergy Arkansas for 150MW of power, but the company anticipates power demand of up to 1GW as the 760-acre cam...

Former Colliery in Nottinghamshire, UK, Could House Data Center

United Kingdom

A data center could be built as part of a housing development on a former colliery site in Nottinghamshire, UK. Property developer Harworth Group wants to build the data center on the land that used to house the Rufford Colliery, located near the village of Rainworth.Drawings included as part ...

Hive Digital Technologies to Launch Buzz Cloud Platform in Paraguay

HIVE Digital Technologies Ltd

Texas-based digital infrastructure company Hive Digital Technologies is bringing its Buzz Cloud platform to Paraguay. According to Hive, through this partnership, the company will bring its AI cloud offering dubbed "Buzz Cloud" to Paraguay, hosting its hardware in a Tier III data center in the...

New Jersey Senate Advances Bill to Establish New Rate Class for Data Centers

New Jersey

The New Jersey Senate has advanced a bill that would create new tariff classes for “large load” data centers in an effort to protect ratepayers in the state from cost increases.The bill, cosponsored by ten Democrat lawmakers, would require public electrical utilities in the state to submit pro...

Macquire Group Invests €117m in Polarise for Data Center Fit Out

Polarise

Investment bank Macquire Group and data center infrastructure startup Polarise have formed a "strategic financing partnership" to support the fit-out of the latter's data centers. The partnership is worth up to €117 million ($136.65m).Michel Boutouil, CEO of Polarise, said: “This financing is ...

Top Data Center News for 5th - 10th January, 2026

United States

SB Energy to Build and Operate OpenAI's 1.2GW Stargate Data Center in Milam County, TexasSoftBank subsidiary SB Energy has partnered with OpenAI to build and operate the previously announced 1.2 GW Stargate data center in Milam County, Texas. SB Energy will provide the project's powered infras...

Telenor JV Skygard Acquires Two Data Centers from Orange in Oslo, Norway

Orange

Norwegian data center firm Skygard, which is owned by Norwegian telco Telenor, energy company Hafslund, and investment fund HitecVision, has acquired two facilities from Orange Business Services Norway."The acquisition marks an important milestone for Skygard. With this, we are significantly i...

Nebius Plans 800MW Data Center Campus in Kansas City, Missouri

Nebius

European cloud firm Nebius is planning a large data center development outside Kansas City, Missouri. According to the city of Independence, Nebius is planning a 2.5 million sq ft (232,255 sqm) campus in the existing Eastgate Commerce Center, off Little Blue Parkway and Missouri Highway 78 in ...

330MW Google-Linked Data Center Proposed in Southern California

Google

Imperial Valley Computer Manufacturing, LLC (IVCM) is seeking to develop a 950,000 sq ft (88,257 sqm), 330MW single-story data center, emergency backup generator building (330MW), on-site substation, and Battery Energy Storage System (BESS, 862MWh) on 74 acres around 2304 Clark Road.The BESS w...

Proposal Filed for 1,800-acre Data Center Campus Outside Greensboro, North Carolina

North Carolina

 A large data center campus is being proposed outside Greensboro, North Carolina. The Stokes County board of commissioners is due to meet next week to discuss an amendment to the county’s zoning ordinance to include data centers as permitted in the heavy manufacturing conditional zoning classi...

Turkish Airlines Breaks Ground on New Development

Turkey

Turkish Airlines has laid the foundation stone at a groundbreaking ceremony for its planned development at Istanbul Airport in Turkey (Turkiye), including a data center. In total, the company is building eight new facilities at the airport and investing more than TRY 100 billion ($2.32bn).Deta...

SB Energy to Build and Operate OpenAI's 1.2GW Stargate Data Center in Milam County, Texas

Texas

SoftBank subsidiary SB Energy has partnered with OpenAI to build and operate the previously announced 1.2 GW Stargate data center in Milam County, Texas. SB Energy will provide the project's powered infrastructure, while SoftBank and OpenAI invest $1 billion in the company to support its growt...