North America Data Center News

AI Drives Environmental Concerns Over Rise in Data Center Growth Across Central Texas

What's causing the growth in data centers in Austin, TX? The answer is AI. Data centers and large AI consumers, like the Texas Advanced Computing Center’s supercomputers, require enormous amounts of energy and water, raising environmental concerns. Our research reveals there are 386 data cente...

February 13, 2025

Nolan Turner

Austin

Could DeepSeek's Efficiency Advances Boost Nvidia's Long-Term Prospects?

DeepSeek's announcement of a new large language model achieving state-of-the-art performance at significantly reduced computational costs sent shockwaves through the AI infrastructure market, triggering a $1.2 trillion market decline and a 15% drop in Nvidia's stock value. The market's reactio...

January 29, 2025

Marketing HQ

United States

Intuitive Machines' IM-2 Lander Delivered to Cape Canaveral

The IM-2 mission lunar lander has been delivered to Cape Canaveral, Florida, currently set to launch on February 26, prepared to carry what could be the first data center on the Moon. Lonestar plans to use the system to see how storage behaves on the Moon's surface, with an eventual aim to use...

January 29, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Florida

Lambda Installs GB200 NVL72 Rack in California

GPU cloud provider Lambda has deployed an Nvidia GB200 NVL72 rack system at EdgeCloudLink's (ECL) data center in Mountain View, California. The rack was installed on January 22, and the installation process took around "one hour" due to the flexibility of the data center.In a LinkedIn post, EC...

January 29, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

California

Georgia PSC Approves New Billing Rules for Data Centers

The Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) has voted to approve a new rule that allows new large-load Georgia Power customers using more than 100MW of electricity to be billed based on the risks associated with their projects.The rule, which passed unanimously, requires data centers to pay th...

January 28, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Georgia

NextEra Partners with GE Vernova on Gas for Data Centers

US energy generator NextEra Energy has partnered with energy equipment manufacturer GE Vernova to develop gas-fired generation to meet the energy demands of data centers and will be taking further steps to restart the idled Duane Arnold Energy Center, a nuclear power plant in Iowa.NextEra CEO ...

January 27, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Santee Cooper proposes nuclear power station acquisition

Santee Cooper, South Carolina’s state-owned electric and water utility, has launched a Request for Proposals (RFP) to acquire and complete or propose alternatives for two partially constructed generating units at the Virgil C Summer Nuclear Power Station in Fairfield County, South Carolina.The...

January 25, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

South Carolina

Chiplet startup Baya Systems raises $36m in Series B funding round

Chiplet technology startup Baya Systems has raised more than $36 million in a Series B funding round led by Maverick Silicon and backed by a strategic investment from Synopsys. It also saw participation from current investors, including Matrix Partners and Intel Capital.Growing AI workloads ar...

January 25, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

New York

Sailfish plans multi-gigawatt data center park outside DFW, Texas

Ryan Hughes, founder of real estate firm Sailfish, this week announced Comanche Circle, a 2,600-acre master-planned data center community in Hood County’s Tolar, Texas. Hughes said Sailfish Digital Ventures (SDV) will develop nine data center campuses with a cumulative 5GW of power delivered v...

January 25, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Texas

Harrison Street raises $600m for data center fund

Investment firm Harrison Street this week announced that it had closed approximately $600 million in capital commitments across its HS Digital Fund and associated vehicles. The fundraise represents Harrison Street’s first dedicated pool of investment capital for its digital assets platform.“Fo...

January 24, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

North America

Novacap closes first digital infrastructure fund

North American investment firm Novacap this week announced the final closing of Novacap Digital Infrastructure Fund I, the firm's first fund dedicated entirely to investing in digital infrastructure. The firm has also named its recently announced data center joint venture with H5, HyScale Data...

January 24, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

New York

Northpoint proposes 15-building data center campus in Pennsylvania

Northpoint Development is set to present plans for Project Hazelnut to Luzerne County Council’s infrastructure committee this week. According to council documents, Northpoint is planning a 1,283-acre, 15-building campus in Hazle Township’s 3,000-acre Humboldt North Industrial Park.The first me...

January 23, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Pennsylvania

Canadian government to support quantum technology projects with CA$74m

The Canadian government has announced more than CA$74 million (US$52 million) in funding for quantum technology projects which will be used to support 107 initiatives spanning quantum computing, communications, encryption, materials, and sensing.The government said the funding package aligns w...

January 23, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Canada

GlobalFoundries to build an Advanced Packaging and Photonics Center in New York

GlobalFoundries (GF) has announced plans to build an Advanced Packaging and Photonics Center in the state of New York, USA, described as the center as “the first of its kind.” The company said the new facility would allow semiconductors to be “securely manufactured, processed, packaged, and te...

January 22, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

New York

Oklo and RPower to deploy nuclear and natural gas hybrid power model for data centers

Small modular reactor and nuclear recycling firm Oklo has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with RPower, a provider of onsite prime and backup power solutions, to deploy a phased power model that combines natural gas and nuclear power for the data center sector. The model will combine...

January 18, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Cottonwood Group closes $56 million in financing

Cottonwood Group closed $56 million in financing for three data center developments in Arizona, Ohio, and Virginia. Based in California, Cottonwood is a private equity real estate investment firm headed up by CEO Alexander Shing.“The timing for these investments was ideal, given the sector’s e...

January 17, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

DOE details upcoming ATS-5 supercomputer

The Department of Energy (DOE) has released details about an incoming supercomputer dubbed ATS-5. This system will replace the 30 petaflops ATS-3 Crossroads machine which the DOE said is “nearing the end of its useful lifetime.” While no information about the compute power of the ATS-5 has bee...

January 17, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

PowerSecure partners with Edged Energy to supply backup generation for US data centers

PowerSecure, the distributed energy solution subsidiary of US utility Southern Company, has partnered with Edged Energy to supply critical electrical and mechanical systems for Edged data center operations in the US, coinciding with the opening of the Edged Atlanta Campus in Atlanta, Georgia, ...

January 16, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Ligado sues Inmarsat following bankruptcy ruling

Satellite operator Ligado Networks has sued its contract partner Inmarsat shortly after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. In its lawsuit, Ligado claims Inmarsat failed to make the required upgrades to its satellite network while still demanding payments from Ligado, at a time when Ligado has ...

January 14, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Sierra Club appeals against data center in Reno, Nevada

The Sierra Club, an environmental preservation organization with chapters in all 50 states has filed an appeal against the approval of the Webb Data Center by the Reno Planning Commission on December 18. The commission voted 4-2 for recommending proposals from Ellis Partners for an 82,000-squa...

January 14, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Nevada

Data Center News

Ready to Level up Your Data Center Strategy?

Ready to Level up Your
Data Center Strategy?