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Read Microsoft Exits Nscale's 50MW Loughton Data Center Deal In Essex
Microsoft has ended its agreement to anchor [Nscale](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/nscale)'s Loughton AI campus in Essex, the 50MW facility that UK ministers promoted as the country's largest sov...

Microsoft Exits Nscale's 50MW Loughton Data Center Deal In Essex

October 19, 2026 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has ended its agreement to anchor Nscale's Loughton AI campus in Essex, the 50MW facility that UK ministers promoted as the country's largest sovereign AI data center when it was announced in 2025. The withdrawal, first reported by The Telegraph on Oct. 18, leaves the £2bn project...

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Read Microsoft To Fund 1,100MW Of Indiana Generation Under 20-Year NiSource Deal
Microsoft will pay for all the generation and transmission needed to serve its La Porte, Indiana data center campus under a 20-year electric service agreement with [NiSource](https://www.nisource.c...

Microsoft To Fund 1,100MW Of Indiana Generation Under 20-Year NiSource Deal

October 19, 2026 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft will pay for all the generation and transmission needed to serve its La Porte, Indiana data center campus under a 20-year electric service agreement with NiSource announced Oct. 16. Service starts in 2028. The utility's unregulated affiliate, NiSource Generation Company, will add...

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Read NiSource And Microsoft Sign 20-Year Deal For 1,100MW Of Indiana Power
Microsoft will fund about 1,100 MW of new generation and transmission in northern Indiana and buy the output for 20 years under an agreement with [NiSource](https://www.nisource.com/news/article/ni...

NiSource And Microsoft Sign 20-Year Deal For 1,100MW Of Indiana Power

October 19, 2026 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft will fund about 1,100 MW of new generation and transmission in northern Indiana and buy the output for 20 years under an agreement with NiSource, the holding company that owns Northern Indiana Public Service Company. Announced Friday, the deal covers the La Porte data center campus...

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Read AEP To Invest $4B In 702MW Fuel Cell Plant For Google
American Electric Power will invest about $4 billion in a 702 MW fuel cell generation project near Cheyenne, Wyoming, under a 20-year power purchase agreement with [Google](https://baxtel.com/data-...

AEP To Invest $4B In 702MW Fuel Cell Plant For Google

October 15, 2026 Cheyenne

American Electric Power will invest about $4 billion in a 702 MW fuel cell generation project near Cheyenne, Wyoming, under a 20-year power purchase agreement with Google, the utility announced. The plant is being developed through Cheyenne Fuel Cell, LLC, and is targeted to reach full operation...

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Read Virginia Senator Perry Proposes Three-Year Statewide Data Center Moratorium
State Sen. Russet Perry on Tuesday released draft legislation that would halt approvals for new data centers across Virginia for three years, escalating the political fight over the industry's grow...

Virginia Senator Perry Proposes Three-Year Statewide Data Center Moratorium

October 15, 2026 Northern Virginia

State Sen. Russet Perry on Tuesday released draft legislation that would halt approvals for new data centers across Virginia for three years, escalating the political fight over the industry's growth in the world's largest data center market. Senate Bill 843 would take effect July 1, 2027 and...

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Read DayOne Adds $3.67 Billion Johor Financing, Bank Platform Hits $7.3 Billion
A seven-bank consortium has added RM15 billion, about US$3.67 billion, to [DayOne](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/dayone)'s Johor data center financing, lifting the Singapore-headquartered operato...

DayOne Adds $3.67 Billion Johor Financing, Bank Platform Hits $7.3 Billion

October 14, 2026 Johor

A seven-bank consortium has added RM15 billion, about US$3.67 billion, to DayOne's Johor data center financing, lifting the Singapore-headquartered operator's debt platform in Malaysia's southern state to RM30 billion, or roughly US$7.3 billion. The lenders set out the upsizing in a joint...

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Read Microsoft Acquires 600 Acres for Data Center Development in Woodward, Iowa
Microsoft has acquired 600 acres in Woodward, around 30 miles northwest of Des Moines, Iowa, for a potential data center campus. The purchase was disclosed at a residents’ meeting on October 12, fo...

Microsoft Acquires 600 Acres for Data Center Development in Woodward, Iowa

October 14, 2026 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has acquired 600 acres in Woodward, around 30 miles northwest of Des Moines, Iowa, for a potential data center campus. The purchase was disclosed at a residents’ meeting on October 12, four days after the sale closed. The site lies between Highway 141 and Seminole Avenue, but...

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Read 2026 Is the Year Texas Passes Virginia in Data Center Capacity
[Texas](https://baxtel.com/data-center/texas) now has more data center capacity operating and under construction than [Virginia](https://baxtel.com/data-center/virginia). Baxtel tracks 28.3 GW buil...

2026 Is the Year Texas Passes Virginia in Data Center Capacity

October 13, 2026 Northern Virginia

Texas now has more data center capacity operating and under construction than Virginia. Baxtel tracks 28.3 GW built or building in Texas, against 17.8 GW in Virginia. On capacity already online, Virginia still leads, 12.3 GW to 11.1 GW. If projects scheduled for this year deliver on time, Texas...

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Read Microsoft Trims Mount Pleasant Data Center Plan To Seven Buildings From Nine
Microsoft has cut the number of buildings planned for the 791-acre Durand Avenue portion of its Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, data center campus to seven from nine, reducing the parcel's projected tax...

Microsoft Trims Mount Pleasant Data Center Plan To Seven Buildings From Nine

October 12, 2026 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has cut the number of buildings planned for the 791-acre Durand Avenue portion of its Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, data center campus to seven from nine, reducing the parcel's projected taxable value by about 24 percent, or nearly $1.9 billion, the Milwaukee Business Journal reported on...

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Read Finland Halts Two Google Data Center Builds Over 300-Hectare Forest Clearing
Finnish regulators have ordered a halt to work at two planned [Google](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/google) data centers after more than 300 hectares of forest were cleared before mandatory envi...

Finland Halts Two Google Data Center Builds Over 300-Hectare Forest Clearing

October 10, 2026 Finland

Finnish regulators have ordered a halt to work at two planned Google data centers after more than 300 hectares of forest were cleared before mandatory environmental impact assessments were completed, the BBC reported. The order covers the company's project sites in Muhos and Kajaani, both in the...

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Read Sesterce Plans €10B, 600MW AI Campus at Former Finnish Paper Mill
French AI infrastructure company [Sesterce](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/sesterce) said Thursday it plans to invest more than €10 billion ($11.2 billion) to convert the former Kaipola paper mill...

Sesterce Plans €10B, 600MW AI Campus at Former Finnish Paper Mill

October 08, 2026 Finland

French AI infrastructure company Sesterce said Thursday it plans to invest more than €10 billion ($11.2 billion) to convert the former Kaipola paper mill in Jämsä, Central Finland, into a 600 MW AI data center campus. The company's announcement outlines a 200 MW first phase and confirms an anchor...

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Read Applied Digital Secures 1 GW Of Finnish Power For First Campus Outside US
[Applied Digital](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/applied-digital) (NASDAQ: APLD) has secured access to as much as 1 GW of potential power capacity in Finland, its first development opportunity out...

Applied Digital Secures 1 GW Of Finnish Power For First Campus Outside US

October 06, 2026 Finland

Applied Digital (NASDAQ: APLD) has secured access to as much as 1 GW of potential power capacity in Finland, its first development opportunity outside the United States, the Dallas-based AI data center developer said on October 6. The planned AI Factory campus can scale to 1 GW, with initial...

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Read atNorth Plans €2B Salo Data Center With 75MW First Phase, 230MW Path
atNorth will develop a €2 billion data center, FIN05, in Salo, [Finland](https://baxtel.com/regions/finland), on a 28.6-hectare site, with 75 MW of power secured for the first phase and a path to a...

atNorth Plans €2B Salo Data Center With 75MW First Phase, 230MW Path

October 05, 2026 Finland

atNorth will develop a €2 billion data center, FIN05, in Salo, Finland, on a 28.6-hectare site, with 75 MW of power secured for the first phase and a path to as much as 230 MW. The Nordic operator announced the plan on October 5. Power will arrive through a new Fingrid substation.The first phase...

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Read NetworkOcean Runs Solar-Powered GPU Data Center on San Francisco Bay
San Francisco startup NetworkOcean says it has become the first company to run customer AI workloads from a solar-powered floating data center. The company operated a single Nvidia H100 GPU powered...

NetworkOcean Runs Solar-Powered GPU Data Center on San Francisco Bay

October 03, 2026 San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco startup NetworkOcean says it has become the first company to run customer AI workloads from a solar-powered floating data center. The company operated a single Nvidia H100 GPU powered by a 20kW solar array during a trial in San Francisco Bay. The customer was not disclosed....

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Read Crusoe Confirms Google AI Campus In Texas With 531MW Wind Link
Crusoe is the developer behind Google's data center campus under construction in Armstrong County, Texas, the company [said on Sept. 28](https://www.crusoe.ai/resources/newsroom/crusoe-developing-d...

Crusoe Confirms Google AI Campus In Texas With 531MW Wind Link

October 01, 2026 West Texas

Crusoe is the developer behind Google's data center campus under construction in Armstrong County, Texas, the company said on Sept. 28. The site sits outside Amarillo, and it pairs with 531 megawatts of adjacent West Texas wind, a design that puts generation rather than land at the center of the...

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Read HyperDC Files Plans for 400MW Data Center Campus West of Melbourne
HyperDC Pty Ltd has filed a planning permit application for a 400MW data center campus at 715 Ballan Road in Moorabool, about 75 kilometres west of [Melbourne](https://baxtel.com/regions/melbourne)...

HyperDC Files Plans for 400MW Data Center Campus West of Melbourne

September 29, 2026 Melbourne

HyperDC Pty Ltd has filed a planning permit application for a 400MW data center campus at 715 Ballan Road in Moorabool, about 75 kilometres west of Melbourne, as reported by Data Center Dynamics. The developer's website lists the 39-hectare parcel as MBL1 and states an intention to build 400MW of...

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Read Microsoft Files Plans For Data Center Campus In Prince William County, Virginia
Microsoft plans to develop a new data center campus outside Gainesville in Prince William County, Virginia. The company has applied to the US Army Corps of Engineers for the MNZ07 Wellington Data C...

Microsoft Files Plans For Data Center Campus In Prince William County, Virginia

September 16, 2026 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft plans to develop a new data center campus outside Gainesville in Prince William County, Virginia. The company has applied to the US Army Corps of Engineers for the MNZ07 Wellington Data Center at 13490 University Boulevard. The project would include two one-story data center buildings...

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Read Microsoft Plans 38GW Of Data Center Capacity By 2032
Microsoft plans to more than triple its data center capacity over the next five years, targeting 38GW by 2032, up from its current 12GW. The capacity will combine Microsoft-owned facilities with le...

Microsoft Plans 38GW Of Data Center Capacity By 2032

September 11, 2026 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft plans to more than triple its data center capacity over the next five years, targeting 38GW by 2032, up from its current 12GW. The capacity will combine Microsoft-owned facilities with leased capacity from third-party providers, including neoclouds such as CoreWeave, Nscale, Lambda,...

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Read Greenfield And Finsbury Infrastructure To Invest €360M In Milan Data Center
UK infrastructure developer Greenfield and Finsbury Infrastructure plan to invest up to €360 million ($418m) to develop a 36MW data center east of Milan, Italy. Greenfield has already secured 80MW ...

Greenfield And Finsbury Infrastructure To Invest €360M In Milan Data Center

September 08, 2026 Milan

UK infrastructure developer Greenfield and Finsbury Infrastructure plan to invest up to €360 million ($418m) to develop a 36MW data center east of Milan, Italy. Greenfield has already secured 80MW of power capacity for the site, which will support AI, cloud, and enterprise workloads while...

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Read Flex Acquires Data Center Power Manufacturer EPC Power In $4.4B Deal
Flex has agreed to acquire EPC Power for $4.4 billion, expanding its data center power and thermal management portfolio. The deal, subject to regulatory approval, is expected to close in Q4 2026. E...

Flex Acquires Data Center Power Manufacturer EPC Power In $4.4B Deal

September 04, 2026 Singapore

Flex has agreed to acquire EPC Power for $4.4 billion, expanding its data center power and thermal management portfolio. The deal, subject to regulatory approval, is expected to close in Q4 2026. EPC will join Flex’s Cloud and Power Infrastructure segment, building on their existing partnership....

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