North America Data Center News

Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Proposed in Pennyslyvania

A large data center campus is being proposed in Northeast Pennsylvania. 1778 Rich Pike LLC is aiming to develop a 1.5GW, 1,000-acre campus on either side of Interstate 380, just north of Clifton Beach Road. The project is known as the Gouldsboro Data Center in some documents.Each building woul...

July 15, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Pennsylvania

Globalinx to Develop Data Center in Portsmouth, Virginia

Virginia data center firm Globalinx this week revealed plans to develop a backup data center in Portsmouth, a city some 20 miles west of its existing Virginia Beach site.Chris Mitchell, director of sales at Globalinx Datacenters, told the authority the company was building a data center within...

July 15, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Virginia

Top Data Center News from 7th-12th of July, 2025

Yondr Completes 40MW Frankfurt Data CenterData center firm Yondr has announced that its 40MW data center in Bischofsheim which includes a solar photovoltaic (PV) installation on the roof, a green wall, and electric vehicle charging points, is now fully operational, just as it completes a resea...

July 14, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

CoreWeave Plans $6bn Facility in Lancaster, Pennsylvania

AI cloud firm CoreWeave has revealed plans to invest up to $6 billion in developing a data center in Lancaster, Pennsylvania which will have an initial 100MW of IT capacity, though it will have the potential to scale up to 300MW, and will be "purpose-built" for AI use cases. Around 600 skilled...

July 14, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Pennsylvania

Oakland University Calls for Data Center Proposals

Oakland University (OU) in Rochester, Michigan, has released a "request for proposals" (RFP) last month, detailing the data center project planned for a five-acre site located at 253 Pioneer Drive, Rochester, on the existing parking lot P-35.The Oakland Press reports that it is this substation...

July 12, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Michigan

Starwood Files for 1.2GW, 11-building Data Center Campus in Delaware

Plans have been filed for a large gigawatt-scale data center campus in Delaware, filing two applications with New Castle County to develop a new campus that would total 1.2GW across 6 million sq ft (557,418 sqm). Project Washington would see 11 buildings developed on approximately 580 acres of...

July 12, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Delaware

Aon Launches $1.5 Billion Data Center Insurance Product

Insurance firm Aon this week announced the launch of its Data Center Lifecycle Insurance Program (DCLP), a proprietary multi-line insurance facility designed to help clients manage risk across every stage of data center development and operations.“Today’s data centers are the backbone of the g...

July 11, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Imran Latif Joins Johnson Controls from Brookhaven

Imran Latif has joined Johnson Controls as vice president, global technology and innovation, data centers after spending the last 14-and-a-half years at Brookhaven National Laboratory, most recently as its chief operations officer (COO) for data center infrastructure."Having had the opportunit...

July 07, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Fermi America Acquires 600MW of Gas Turbines for 11GW AI Mega Campus

Fermi America has acquired more than 600MW of natural gas generation for its planned HyperGrid AI campus in Amarillo, Texas across two deals in support of Fermi’s goal to deliver 1GW of AI power at the site by 2026."The executed agreements will allow Fermi America to acquire highly reliable, e...

July 04, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Texas

Digerati Technologies Pivots from Cloud Offering to Colocation Services

Digerati Technologies, the holding company of cloud service and colocation providers Waiv Cloud and Verve Cloud, has pivoted away from cloud computing. Digerati has completed the refinancing and debt-for-equity exchange for its former subsidiary Verve Cloud, enabling it to focus on colocation ...

July 04, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

T-Mobile Completes $2bn Florida Network Expansion

T-Mobile, in an announcement this week, said the multi-year expansion of its 5G network has concluded. The carrier said it has upgraded new and existing cell sites across the state.In total, the carrier has upgraded 1,350 sites across Florida, while also bolstering 1,375 sites to shore up emer...

July 03, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Florida

HPE Closes $14bn Acquisition of Juniper Networks

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has completed its long-awaited $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks. The Department of Justice (DOJ) approved the deal following HPE's agreement to a number of potentially significant conditions.“Today begins a new era for HPE – we are now at the epicent...

July 02, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

University of Texas to Get $3m Data Center

The University of Texas is looking to deploy a new data center to be housed in the education building at 500 W University Avenue in El Paso, Texas. The data center will span 4,568 sq ft (424.4 sqm) and is estimated to cost around $3 million.According to the posting, the project will be private...

July 02, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Texas

Slam Corp Sues Lynk Global for Attempt to cancel merger

Slam Corp, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) founded by former baseball star Alex “A-Rod” Rodriguez, is suing satellite mobile provider Lynk Global in a Florida court to prevent it from backing out of a proposed merger.Virginia-based Lynk moved to terminate its business combination ...

July 02, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Palantir to Develop AI Software for The Nuclear Company

Military and surveillance company Palantir is partnering with The Nuclear Company (TNC) to co-develop and deploy NOS, an 'AI-driven' real-time software system focused on the construction of nuclear reactors.“Our mission is to build nuclear power the way America once built its greatest infrastr...

July 01, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Crusoe and Redwood Launch Microgrid to Power Data Centers

AI data center developer Crusoe has partnered with battery recycling firm Redwood Energy to develop a microgrid system powered through solar and repurposed electric vehicle (EV) batteries for modular AI data centers.This project is supposedly the largest microgrid in the North American market ...

July 01, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Top Data Center News from 23rd-28th June 2025

Kakao Plans Data Center in Namyangju, South KoreaSouth Korean Internet firm Kakao has committed to a KRW 600 billion ($442.3m) investment that will see the company develop a 92,000 sqm (990,280 sq ft) AI-focused facility in Namyangju, a city in the nation's Gyeonggi province.DigitalBridge and ...

June 30, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

AMD and HCLTech Team Up for AI and Cloud Solutions

AMD has partnered with Indian tech company HCLTech to boost the development of solutions across AI, digital, and cloud. The partnership will support the creation of a “robust digital ecosystem,” the two companies said in a statement.This will include joint investments in innovation labs and tr...

June 28, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Lockton Launches New Data Center Insurance Product

Insurance brokerage Lockton has partnered with Parametrix, a provider of digital business interruption risk solutions, to bring a Service Level Agreement (SLA) insurance offering to the data center market. The companies said the parametric coverage offers immediate payouts triggered by predefi...

June 28, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

US Energy Sec Plans 11GW Data Center Campus in Texas

The Texas Tech University System (TTU System) announced a collaboration with recently founded energy and technology company Fermi America to develop a large AI and energy campus near Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle. The Advanced Energy and Intelligence Campus will reportedly include “18 millio...

June 28, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Texas

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