January 30, 2026 New Orleans
A one-year moratorium on data centers has been introduced in New Orleans, Louisiana. At a special meeting this week, the New Orleans City Council approved two motions following news of a proposed data center in New Orleans East and the regulation of future data center developments citywide.Motion...
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January 27, 2026 Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania-based data center provider Alerify has partnered with AI cloud provider Zadara on an AI Edge platform. Through the agreement, Alerify will combine its data center infrastructure and cloud platform with Zadara's offering, creating a sovereign AI solution in Pennsylvania.“We chose...
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January 27, 2026 United States
Cryptomining firm Bitfarms is set to demolish a former Bitcoin mining facility in Washington state in order to redevelop it into an HPC/AI data center. The revamped facility is expected to be completed by December 2026, adding to the region’s growing number of data centers that are making use of...
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January 27, 2026 Colorado (CO)
Colorado could offer tax breaks to data center developers that pledge to power their facilities with renewable energy. A new bill proposed in the state’s House of Representatives would offer a 20-year, 100 percent sales and use tax exemption for qualifying data centers. The bill would see a new...
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January 26, 2026 United States
AM Group To Establish 1GW Data Center Campus in Northern India AM Green Group (AMG) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Invest UP, the investment agency of the Government of Uttar Pradesh which states that AMG will establish an $25 billion AI infrastructure hub in the Greater Noida...
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January 24, 2026 Canada
Canada’s government has put out a call for businesses interested in building large-scale AI data centers as it is looking for industry partners interested in constructing data centers with a capacity of more than 100MW in Canada.Evan Solomon, Canada’s AI minister, said his government is “taking...
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January 23, 2026 United States
Aussie neocloud Sharon AI has secured a $500 million debt facility to expand its AI infrastructure in Australia and the wider Asia Pacific region. The debt facility has been provided by USD.AI's on-chain credit system and will enable Sharon AI to deploy GPUs financed with stablecoin...
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January 22, 2026 Michigan
A data center campus spanning 180 acres is set to be built in Lyon Township, Michigan. If the data center – known as Project Flex – is built, it will be located on the east side of Milford Road, south of the Huron Valley Trail crossing and south of New Hudson Drive West. It will consist of six...
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January 19, 2026 United States
Avaio to Develop $6bn Data Center Campus in Little Rock, Arkansas Avaio Digital Partners this week announced plans for a new data center hub near Little Rock in Pulaski County, Arkansas. The aim for the 760-acre site is for a major pole of data center capacity and an engine of sustained economic...
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January 19, 2026 Texas
Social media giant Meta has signed a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with US renewable energy developer Origis Energy to offtake power from a solar plant in Texas."We are thrilled to partner with Origis Energy and bring an additional 240 MWac of solar energy to the local grid. With this...
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January 13, 2026 New Jersey
The New Jersey Senate has advanced a bill that would create new tariff classes for “large load” data centers in an effort to protect ratepayers in the state from cost increases.The bill, cosponsored by ten Democrat lawmakers, would require public electrical utilities in the state to submit...
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January 12, 2026 United States
SB Energy to Build and Operate OpenAI's 1.2GW Stargate Data Center in Milam County, Texas SoftBank subsidiary SB Energy has partnered with OpenAI to build and operate the previously announced 1.2 GW Stargate data center in Milam County, Texas. SB Energy will provide the project's powered...
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January 10, 2026 North Carolina
A large data center campus is being proposed outside Greensboro, North Carolina. The Stokes County board of commissioners is due to meet next week to discuss an amendment to the county’s zoning ordinance to include data centers as permitted in the heavy manufacturing conditional zoning...
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January 09, 2026 North America
Exus Renewables North America has closed a $400 million senior secured corporate credit facility to fund the expansion of its utility-scale wind, solar, and battery storage portfolio. The company noted that the expansion would support it in meeting huge demand emanating from the data center...
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January 09, 2026 Mississippi
Elon Musk’s AI company xAI has confirmed it is set to build a third data center in Mississippi, and will invest more than $20 billion in the state. The data center in Southhaven, DeSoto County, which will be known as MACROHARDRR – an apparent dig at Microsoft – will supply compute power for the...
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January 09, 2026 United States
Soluna has signed a deal with Siemens to develop a 2MW pilot project to determine power management challenges for AI computing at renewable energy sites. The companies signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding to develop the project. It is set to be deployed at Soluna’s Project Grace site...
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January 09, 2026 Texas
SoftBank subsidiary SB Energy has partnered with OpenAI to build and operate the previously announced 1.2 GW Stargate data center in Milam County, Texas. SB Energy will provide the project's powered infrastructure, while SoftBank and OpenAI invest $1 billion in the company to support its growth,...
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January 08, 2026 United States
Elon Musk’s xAI has raised $20 billion to help fund its data center build-out. Financial backers include Valor Equity Partners, Stepstone Group, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Qatar Investment Authority, MGX, and Baron Capital Group.“This financing will accelerate our world-leading...
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January 08, 2026 Ohio
A company behind the affiliate Tilted Gate LLC is looking to develop a data center in Scioto County. The Scioto County commission said the center would be built in the Franklin Furnace area, specifically the Haverhill part of the county. The Scioto County commission has made its own announcement...
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January 08, 2026 New York
Memory chipmaker Micron will break ground on a $100 billion semiconductor fab campus in Onondaga County, New York, on January 16. Consisting of four fabs when fully built, the so-called megafab is expected to be complete by Q3 2041 and will be the largest semiconductor facility in the US.In a...
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