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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

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

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

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

Solaria Launches European Data Center Platform

Spanish energy firm Solaria Energia has formally launched its European sustainable data center platform. The platform includes approximately 3.4GW of secured grid power across 400 hectares (990 acres) spanning Spain, Italy, Germany, and the UK. In addition, the company has reportedly requested...

November 25, 2025

Spain

Sierra DC Plans New Data Center in Granada, Spain

Sierra DC has confirmed plans for the construction of a new AI-focused data center in the Industrial and Technological City and Innovation Area (CITAI) of Escúzar, Granada. The investment, for what the company says will be one of the largest facilities of its kind in Spain, is estimated at €1 ...

October 08, 2025

Spain

Data Center Campus Planned for Villena, Spain

A data center and logistics park could be coming to Villena, Spain by the developer of the industrial area Casa del Padre in Villena, L14 REIS, and the City Council of Villena. The Logistics Data Campus Villena aims to transform the Casa del Padre industrial area into a park for data centers, ...

September 26, 2025

Spain

Templus to Expand Madrid Facility to 20MW

Spanish data center firm Templus is to expand its facility in the Alcalá de Henares area of Madrid from the current 10MW to 20MW in the medium term.The company's executives said during a ceremony, held this week at the facilities: "The process of increasing power is already underway with the c...

September 19, 2025

Spain

Avaio Digital Enters Spain with New Data Center

Data center firm Avaio Digital this week announced its first data center in Spain, in the town of Algete in the Community of Madrid. The €650 million ($759m) project – known as Algete Data Hub and Avaio Digital Scorpio – has secured 56.3MW of power with Iberdrola, in addition to the initial 8M...

August 15, 2025

Spain

YPlasma Secures $2.5 Million for Plasma-Based Cooling Technology

Spanish startup YPlasma has secured $2.5 million in seed funding to further develop its fanless plasma-based cooling technology in a round led by deep tech venture capital firm Faber, with participation from global VC firm SOSV. The funding will support the expansion of YPlasma’s research and ...

August 05, 2025

Spain

Echelon Partners with Iberdrola for Spanish Data Center

Echelon Data Centres this week announced the signing of a joint venture (JV) agreement with Iberdrola to build and operate data centers in Spain. Echelon will own 80 percent of the JV, with Iberdrola owning the remaining 20 percent through its dedicated digital infrastructure subsidiary CPD4Gr...

July 30, 2025

Spain

EdgeMode Acquires Infrastructure Investor Blackberry AIF

EdgeMode has acquired an infrastructure firm as it plans to develop data centers across Spain. The merger would see EdgeMode, which describes itself as an AI data infrastructure company, acquire BAIF’s assets in exchange for equity and investment capital, forming a “platform to support EdgeMod...

July 02, 2025

Spain

10MW Data Center Planned outside Valencia, Spain

Valencia Digital Port Connect (VDPC), a Spanish telecoms infrastructure company, has selected the municipality of Sagunto as the landing site for the submarine cable and a multi-purpose data center that will offer up to 10MW.VDPC is developing the Barracuda submarine cable project in collabora...

May 31, 2025

Spain

Edged and Merlin plan two gigawatt-scale data center campuses in Spain

Data center firm Edged Energy and real estate firm Merlin Properties this week announced a public-private project with the regional government of Extremadura to develop facilities located in Navalmoral de la Mata in Cáceres Province and Valdecaballeros in Badajoz Province, each site offering u...

January 18, 2025

Spain

Substrate AI plans 10MW data center outside Toledo

Spanish AI firm Substrate AI this week announced it aims to develop a 10MW facility on a 25,000 sqm (269,095 sq ft) site at the Torrehierro industrial estate in Talavera de la Reina that will host Nvidia GPU hardware, including NVL72 racks. The company will invest €100 million ($102.3m) in the...

January 11, 2025

Spain

Edgnex to develop new data center in Madrid, Spain

UAE data center firm Edgnex this week announced its expansion into Europe with the acquisition of land in Madrid. The site has been acquired from real estate private equity manager ActivumSG and will host a 40MW data center. Located in the Vicalvaro region, the 236,805 sq ft (22,000 sqm) facil...

October 18, 2024

Spain

AQ Compute breaks ground on 60MW data center campus in Barcelona, Spain

AQ Compute has broken ground on its 60MW data center campus in Spain and has begun construction work on the new site located in the Parc de l’Alba (Cerdanyola del Vallès) in Barcelona. The data center, dubbed AQ-BCN1, will eventually have an IT capacity of 60MW with cooling capabilities for hi...

June 29, 2024

Spain

GTAA to develop Large Language Models Joint Venture this year

An announcement made earlier this week at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain revealed that the members of the Global Telco AI Alliance (GTAA) are to establish a joint venture later this year specifically aimed at developing Large Language Models (LLMs). "We want our customers...

February 26, 2024

Spain

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