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DOE Eyes AI Facilities at Oak Ridge Reservation

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has launched a Request for Proposal (RFP) from companies seeking to build and power AI data centers at DOE’s Oak Ridge Reservation in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.Two sites at the reservation are available for consideration, one at the East Tennessee Technology Park a...

October 02, 2025

United States

Cerebras Closes $1.1bn Funding Round

Wafer-scale chip designer Cerebras Systems has raised $1.1 billion in an oversubscribed Series G funding round, at an $8.1bn valuation. The company said it would use the funds to expand its technology portfolio, including AI processor design, packaging, system design, and AI supercomputers. "F...

October 02, 2025

United States

Avangrid Announces $18.5bn Network Infrastructure Investment

Avangrid, the North American arm of Spanish electrical utility Iberdrola, has announced a $18.5 billion investment plan into electric and gas network infrastructure within the US by 2028. The investment will focus on rebuilding and replacing aging infrastructure in electric and gas utilities, ...

October 01, 2025

North America

Top Data Center News from 22nd-27th September, 2025

Nscale Raises $1.1bn from Backers AI data center developer Nscale has raised $1.1 billion to help fund its data center build-out in the UK and beyond in a Series B round led by Aker ASA, and participation from the likes of Blue Owl, Dell, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Nokia, Nvid...

September 29, 2025

United States

PG&E Announces $73bn Grid Infrastructure Upgrade Plan

California’s biggest utility company, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), has revealed a new $73 billion spending program to upgrade its grid infrastructure to meet the surging demand from artificial intelligence and cloud computing.The investment is expected to support up to 10GW of new data...

September 29, 2025

California

Cryptominer CleanSpark Secures $200m in Credit Facility

Cryptominer CleanSpark this week announced it was increasing its Bitcoin-backed credit facility with Coinbase Prime by $100m. The funds will be “strategic capital expenditures,” including expanding CleanSpark's energy portfolio, scaling its Bitcoin mining operations, and investing in high-perf...

September 27, 2025

United States

Beyond the Machines: Roles, Risks, and Realities in Data Centers

Data centers are self-run facilities, fully powered by automation. This is necessary to ensure that uptime numbers are accurate at all times. A crucial part of the data center infrastructure has also been designed to operate quietly in the background, leaving the core of these facilities,t and...

September 26, 2025

United States

BluSky AI to Lease Land in Utah for Data Center Site

Nascent AI cloud firm BluSky AI Inc this week announced the execution of a non-binding Letter of Intent (LOI) to lease approximately 16,000 square feet (1,485 sqm) at 1358 N 200 W, Nephi, in Juab County.“This location represents a strategic milestone in our multi-state infrastructure roadmap,”...

September 26, 2025

Utah

Data Center Development in Wisconsin delayed

A data center development in Menomonie, Wisconsin, has been delayed. In a meeting on September 22, Mayor Randy Knaack said that he had drafted a memo to developer Balloonist LLC stating that the city was no longer interested in pursuing the project.“I’m not thrilled about the data center comin...

September 26, 2025

Wisconsin

Michigan’s 123Net Adds 4MW to Detroit Facility

Michigan-based Internet Service Provider (ISP) 123Net has expanded its data center in Detroit. Located at 24700 Northwestern Highway in the Southfield area of Detroit, DC1 offers 80,000 sq ft (7,432 sqm) of colocation space. The site has up to 20MW of available utility power. The expansion re...

September 26, 2025

Michigan

Lumen data center in Reno gets operating license 26 years after launching

An existing data center in Reno, Nevada, was granted a new business license to operate after going without one for nearly 20 years. The 5,925 sq ft (550 sqm) building, on a 0.28-acre site at 220 Gardner Street, was set up in 1999 by Williams Telecommunications as a telecommunications facility....

September 23, 2025

Reno

Top Data Center News for 15th-20th September, 2025

Vantage Enters Spain with €3.2 billion InvestmentUS operator Vantage Data Centers is entering the Spanish market and has announced plans to invest €3.2 billion in developing a data center campus in Villanueva de Gállego, the Zaragoza area of Aragon, Spain.Tract Acquires 1,000 Acres in Nevada f...

September 22, 2025

United States

Duos Edge Launches Data Center for Schools in Dumas, Texas

Duos Edge AI has planted another of its Edge data centers in a school district in Texas to help boost connectivity for staff and pupils. The Edge data center is in Dumas, which is located in Moore County in north west Texas.The containerized data center will serve as a localized hub for real-t...

September 20, 2025

Texas

Tract Acquires 1,000 Acres in Nevada for 1.6GW Data Center Park

US data center park developer Tract this week announced the acquisition of approximately 1,060 acres of land near Silver Springs in Lyon County, following a successful rezoning and development agreement with the county. The site can reportedly support up to 1.6GW of data center capacity, with ...

September 20, 2025

Nevada

CleanArc Receives Permission for 600MW Data Center Campus in Virginia

CleanArc Data Centers has been granted planning permission for a 650-acre data center campus in Caroline County, Virginia. The Caroline County board of supervisors has approved the development, on a plot of land near Exit 110 of the Interstate 95 between Ashburn and Richmond.County officials s...

September 18, 2025

Virginia

Meta Deploys Nvidia Clusters Across Five Data Centers

Meta deployed a 129,000 Nvidia H100 GPU data center cluster across five adjacent data centers. The VP of engineering for its infrastructure division explained that the company had to move thousands of racks to develop its then-largest supercomputer, emptying out live facilities.“It's extremely...

September 17, 2025

NY: Manhattan

Nvidia to Invest $5bn in Intel

Nvidia will invest $5 billion in Intel as part of an agreement to jointly develop custom data center and personal computing hardware. Both companies would work to connect Nvidia and Intel architectures using Nvidia’s NVLink technology, with Intel set to build custom x86 CPUs that will integrat...

September 16, 2025

United States

Intel Announces Leadership Shuffle

Intel has announced a leadership shuffle, the largest change being the departure of Michelle Holthaus, chief executive of Intel Products, who will remain as a “strategic advisor over the coming months.”Kevork Kechichian will join Intel as executive vice president and general manager of Intel’s...

September 13, 2025

United States

Equifax to Decommission Data Center outside Atlanta

The City of Alpharetta last week announced that Equifax was investing $25 million to expand its Alpharetta campus, located in Fulton County. The expansion includes the renovation of the third floor of the JV White 1 building, converting it from a data center into collaborative office space. “T...

September 12, 2025

Atlanta

New Firm Announces Plans for 20MW Liquid-Cooled Data Center

A new liquid-cooled data center is being developed in downtown Chicago, Illinois by HydraVault, a new data center developer. The developer says the facility will be “designed from the ground up” for AI and financial systems.The 20MW two-story facility, located at 2538 South Wabash Avenue, will...

September 12, 2025

Chicago

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