North America Data Center News

GridFree AI raises $5m for Off-Grid Data Center Deployment

GridFree AI, an infrastructure startup backed by Montauk Climate, has raised $5 million in seed funding as it looks to streamline and accelerate data center deployment using its Power Foundry platform, which integrates power generation, battery storage, and cooling into a modular, grid-indepen...

June 06, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

FlexGen, Rosendin to Develop Utility-Scale BESS Solution

FlexGen Power Systems and Rosendin have partnered on the development of a utility-scale Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) designed to replace traditional UPS infrastructure in data centers. The partnership will combine FlexGen’s energy management software and BESS technology with Rosendin’s...

June 06, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Oppidan Breaks Bround on Data Center in Eagan, Minnesota

US real estate firm Oppidan Investment Company this week broke ground on a 61,000 sq ft (5,667 sqm) build-to-suit data center on Argenta Trail in Eagan. Oppidan is serving as the landlord and directly financing, developing, and delivering the facility in partnership with a tenant.“This is a de...

June 05, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Minnesota

Vertiv Unveils Liquid Cooling CDUs for AI data centers

Vertiv has launched three new coolant distribution units (CDUs) for liquid cooled data centers as it is expanding its CoolChip CDU range with the addition of the CoolChip CDU 70, CoolChip CDU 100, CoolChip CDU 600 models.“As workloads continue to drive higher rack densities and cooling demands...

June 05, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Siemens Launches Prefabricated Data Center Module

Siemens Smart Infrastructure, Cadolto Datacenter, and Legrand Data Center Solutions announced this week that they are jointly unveiling a new turnkey modular Edge data center. The companies are offering customizable, prefabricated modules that can be tailored to unique operational needs and de...

June 05, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Principal Acquires Connecta Park in Germany

Principal Asset Management has acquired a data center complex in Düsseldorf, Germany.The site is let to a number of tenants, including Digital Realty, Colt, Pluserver, Comtrance, 1&1 Versatel, Telia, Vodafone, and Zayo. The site is also home to the DE-CIX and ECIX (Megaport) Internet excha...

June 04, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Texas

Laura Swett to Replace Mark Christie as Chairman of FERC

The chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Mark Christie, is set to be replaced when his term expires at the end of the month and President Donald Trump has nominated Laura Swett, who currently serves as energy litigation counsel at the law firm Vinson & Elkins, as Ch...

June 04, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Bitzero Blockchain Announces Four Data Centers

Bitzero Blockchain, the cryptomining and HPC infrastructure firm backed by Shark Tank star Kevin O'Leary, has announced the development of four data centers across the US, Finland, and Norway, with the locations for its new data centers all seclected based on their cold climates.By "combining ...

June 04, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Top Data Center News from 26th - 31st of May 2025

Thylander Plans 100MW Data Center in EsbjergDanish real estate firm Thylander revealed plans for a “fully Danish developed, operated, and owned hyperscale data center" to launch in 2026 with an initial 10-20MW, and with expansion potential to 200MW. Vena Launches AI-Ready Data Center Subsidiar...

June 02, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Canadian Indian Reserve Wiikwemkoong Installs Data Center

Canadian Indian reserve Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory has installed a data center at its administration building which looks to be a containerized facility. The data center is part of the territory's goal of working towards data sovereignty, and will also be used to "digitally preserve and sh...

May 31, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Canada

GridCARE Raises $13.5m for Grid Connection Timelines Reduction

GridCARE, an AI startup focusing on expediting the route to market for data centers seeking a grid connection announced that it has closed an oversubscribed $13.5 million funding round. This round was led by Xora, with participation from Aina Climate AI Ventures, Sherpalo Ventures, Breakthroug...

May 30, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Heron Power Raises $38m to Fast-track Grid Hardware

US power electronics developer Heron Power has closed a Series A funding round, successfully raising $38 million. Following the Series A round, Heron has now raised a total of $43 million. The funding will support the commercialization of its Heron Link product, which aims to replace legacy tr...

May 30, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Frontier Infrastructure Buys Natural Gas Turbines for US Data Centers

Frontier Infrastructure has acquired 16 natural gas turbines from manufacturer Baker Hughes to power planned data center projects across Wyoming and Texas. Baker Hughes will supply 16 of its NovaLT gas turbines, which will have a combined capacity of 270MW of power. "We're seeing a rapid shift...

May 30, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Bell Canada Plans AI 'Data Center Supercluster'

Canadian telecoms operator Bell Canada has launched 'Bell AI Fabric,' a plan to help build AI data centers across the country, starting with six data centers in British Columbia, supported by 500MW of hydroelectric power. The very first facility is set to come online this June, operated by AI ...

May 29, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

British Columbia

Snow Lake and Exodys form SMR Venture

Snow Lake Energy, a uranium development firm, and US-based nuclear engineering company Exodys Energy have launched a joint venture to develop a small modular reactor (SMR) for the US data center market. This venture will use an SMR design based on pressurized water reactor (PWR) technology and...

May 29, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Hyper Bit to Acquire Dogecoin Mining

Cryptomining firm Hyper Bit Technologies this week announced it has signed a non-binding agreement to purchase Dogecoin Mining Technologies in a structured deal that will include an 11MW data center hosting facility based in Canada, along with a minimum of 2,000 ElphaPex DG2 mining rigs.“We vi...

May 27, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Sophia Space Secures $3.5m for Orbital Data Centers

Seattle-based Sophia Space, an orbital computing venture, has raised $3.5 million in pre-seed funding led by Unlock Ventures with the participation of angel investors, to develop Edge compute solutions for orbit and what they call space-based data centers.“We are at the dawn of a new era where...

May 27, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Seattle

Top Data Center News from 17th -24th of May 2025

Gigawatt Scale Data Center Cluster to be developed Outside ParisFrench national investment bank Bpifrance, UAE investment fund MGX, French AI firm Mistral AI, and Nvidia have formed a joint venture to establish Europe’s first purpose-built intelligence hub; supporting the full AI lifecycle fro...

May 26, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Duos to Deploy Edge Data Center in Victoria, Texas

Duos Technologies this week announced a strategic partnership with Region 3 Education Service Center (ESC) to deploy a new Edge data center in Victoria, Texas.Dr. Morris Lyon, executive director of Region 3 ESC, said: “We are proud to partner with Duos Edge AI, Inc. to bring secure, innovative...

May 24, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

North Texas

Top Data Center News from 12th-17th May 2025

Blue Owl Closes $7 billion Digital Infrastructure Fund Blue Owl Capital Inc. has successfully closed its latest digital infrastructure fund focused on data center development and acquisition with $7 billion of total capital commitments, exceeding the original target of $4 billion.FivePoint Lau...

May 19, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

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