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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 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, 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 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 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...

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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 Google

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...

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Read Google’s €13bn Finland Data Center Expansion Investigated Over Forest Clearance
Google’s planned data centers in Finland are under investigation after around 300 hectares of forest were reportedly cleared before environmental assessments were completed. Finland’s Licensing and...

Google’s €13bn Finland Data Center Expansion Investigated Over Forest Clearance

October 08, 2026 Google

Google’s planned data centers in Finland are under investigation after around 300 hectares of forest were reportedly cleared before environmental assessments were completed. Finland’s Licensing and Supervision Agency has requested reports from local authorities and project manager Tuike Finland...

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Read Google Signs 20-Year Nuclear PPA With Constellation For 890MW In PJM
[Google](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/google) will buy 890 MW of new nuclear output from Constellation Energy under a 20-year power purchase agreement covering 11 reactors across the PJM Interco...

Google Signs 20-Year Nuclear PPA With Constellation For 890MW In PJM

October 07, 2026 Google

Google will buy 890 MW of new nuclear output from Constellation Energy under a 20-year power purchase agreement covering 11 reactors across the PJM Interconnection, the companies announced on Oct. 6. Constellation will spend more than $4.3 billion upgrading reactors in Illinois, Pennsylvania and...

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Read Google’s Global Data Center Design and Construction Head Joins Anthropic
Google’s former head of global data center design and construction, John M. Wilson, has joined Anthropic as a member of technical staff, leading EMEA capacity delivery after six years at Google.

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Google’s Global Data Center Design and Construction Head Joins Anthropic

October 05, 2026 Google

Google’s former head of global data center design and construction, John M. Wilson, has joined Anthropic as a member of technical staff, leading EMEA capacity delivery after six years at Google. "Leading global infrastructure delivery across data centers and subsea programs taught me two...

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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 Google

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...

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Read Meta Signs for GPU Capacity at Firmus AI Factories in Southeast Asia
[Meta](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/meta) has signed strategic AI infrastructure agreements with Australian AI factory developer [Firmus Technologies](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/firmus-tech...

Meta Signs for GPU Capacity at Firmus AI Factories in Southeast Asia

September 30, 2026 Meta

Meta has signed strategic AI infrastructure agreements with Australian AI factory developer Firmus Technologies for GPU compute capacity at Firmus sites across Southeast Asia, the companies announced Tuesday. The agreements cover contracted capacity plus options to expand, and Capital Brief...

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Read Meta Signs Deal to Use AI Capacity at Firmus Data Centers in Southeast Asia
Meta has agreed to lease AI compute capacity from Australian neocloud Firmus across its upcoming Southeast Asian data centers. The deal expands an existing partnership under which Meta leases Nvidi...

Meta Signs Deal to Use AI Capacity at Firmus Data Centers in Southeast Asia

September 30, 2026 Meta

Meta has agreed to lease AI compute capacity from Australian neocloud Firmus across its upcoming Southeast Asian data centers. The deal expands an existing partnership under which Meta leases Nvidia GB300 NVL72 capacity at Firmus’ Melbourne facility. Firmus is developing AI factories with DayOne...

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Read Google Secures Approval to Expand Dublin Data Center
Google has received planning approval from An Coimisiún Pleanála to expand its data center campus at Grange Castle Business Park in Dublin, following a lengthy dispute with South Dublin County Coun...

Google Secures Approval to Expand Dublin Data Center

September 29, 2026 Google

Google has received planning approval from An Coimisiún Pleanála to expand its data center campus at Grange Castle Business Park in Dublin, following a lengthy dispute with South Dublin County Council. The company first proposed a 72,400 sqm (779,310 sq ft) third data center building at the...

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Read Google-Backed Texas Battery Pilot Improves Carbon-Free Data Center Matching
A three-month Google-sponsored battery storage pilot in Texas has shown how BESS can improve hourly carbon-free energy matching for data centers. The pilot, led by Quintrace, esVolta, and LevelTen ...

Google-Backed Texas Battery Pilot Improves Carbon-Free Data Center Matching

September 23, 2026 Google

A three-month Google-sponsored battery storage pilot in Texas has shown how BESS can improve hourly carbon-free energy matching for data centers. The pilot, led by Quintrace, esVolta, and LevelTen Energy, used batteries to store surplus renewable energy and discharge it during periods of higher...

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Read Google Explores Data Center Development In New Mexico
Google is exploring a new data center project in Lea County, New Mexico.
The company has not disclosed further details, including the site location or facility specifications.

“Though many deta...

Google Explores Data Center Development In New Mexico

September 19, 2026 Google

Google is exploring a new data center project in Lea County, New Mexico. The company has not disclosed further details, including the site location or facility specifications. “Though many details remain outstanding, we’re excited about the possibilities that exist in Lea County, and look forward...

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Read Aligned Begins Construction On Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Campus In Pennsylvania
Aligned Data Centers has broken ground on Project Phoenix, a new 2GW data center campus in Shippingport, Pennsylvania. Located in Shippingport Industrial Park, the campus will comprise three facili...

Aligned Begins Construction On Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Campus In Pennsylvania

September 17, 2026 Aligned

Aligned Data Centers has broken ground on Project Phoenix, a new 2GW data center campus in Shippingport, Pennsylvania. Located in Shippingport Industrial Park, the campus will comprise three facilities. It is next to the former Shippingport Power Station, which is being redeveloped into a natural...

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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 Vantage Data Centers Raises $2B For North American Development Portfolio
Vantage Data Centers has secured $2 billion in financing to support early-stage development across its North American portfolio. The five-year revolving credit facility initially covers three devel...

Vantage Data Centers Raises $2B For North American Development Portfolio

September 15, 2026 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has secured $2 billion in financing to support early-stage development across its North American portfolio. The five-year revolving credit facility initially covers three development assets, with more eligible to be added. Vantage said the funding will accelerate project...

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Read Edged Completes Construction Of Data Centers In Council Bluffs, Iowa
US data center operator Edged has completed the structural work on two facilities in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The company announced that OMA01-1 and OMA01-2 have reached the topping-out stage.

"Rea...

Edged Completes Construction Of Data Centers In Council Bluffs, Iowa

September 14, 2026 Edged Energy

US data center operator Edged has completed the structural work on two facilities in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The company announced that OMA01-1 and OMA01-2 have reached the topping-out stage. "Reaching this milestone reflects our continued commitment to investing in communities that are...

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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 Google And Blackstone JV Faces Delays On Data Center Projects
Google and Blackstone’s joint venture is facing delays at several data center projects across the US, although the partnership remains optimistic about its progress. Known internally as Project Bra...

Google And Blackstone JV Faces Delays On Data Center Projects

September 09, 2026 Google

Google and Blackstone’s joint venture is facing delays at several data center projects across the US, although the partnership remains optimistic about its progress. Known internally as Project Braid, the JV was formed in May 2026 to develop a cloud platform powered by Google’s Tensor Processing...

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Read Meta’s $1.2B Data Center In Kuna, Idaho, Goes Live
Meta’s Kuna, Idaho Data Center Is Now Operational Meta has begun serving traffic from its data center in Kuna, Idaho. The company announced the campus in 2022, initially planning to invest $800 mil...

Meta’s $1.2B Data Center In Kuna, Idaho, Goes Live

September 04, 2026 Meta

Meta’s Kuna, Idaho Data Center Is Now Operational Meta has begun serving traffic from its data center in Kuna, Idaho. The company announced the campus in 2022, initially planning to invest $800 million in a 960,000 sq ft (89,187 sqm) facility. The project was later temporarily paused for redesign...

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