November 12, 2026 OpenAI
Three residents of Effingham County, Georgia, sued OpenAI and county officials on Nov. 6 over a 3.2-gigawatt data center project. The 44-page complaint, filed in Effingham County State Court, seeks compensatory and punitive damages and three times actual damages from the defendants named in its...
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November 09, 2026 Norway
Statnett, the state-owned grid operator in Norway, has temporarily stopped reserving new transmission capacity for data centers. The halt, announced on 9 November, is expected to be lifted no later than 1 August 2027. It suspends new reservation requests and the processing of new applications for...
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November 06, 2026 Google
Google will invest $17 billion in its first data center in Wyoming, a campus in Laramie County near Cheyenne, the company said on Nov. 5. The number puts a price on a project Baxtel reported in October, when American Electric Power disclosed a 20-year power purchase agreement to build a 702MW...
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November 05, 2026 Google
TeraWulf has secured Google as a credit backstop for the debt financing behind its Justified Data Campus in Hawesville, Kentucky (TeraWulf press release). The campus carries a 20-year lease with Anthropic worth about $19 billion (Reuters). Baxtel reported in July that the company was seeking...
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November 04, 2026 Google
Google will invest $15 billion in Malaysia to build new data center campuses, the company said in its Nov. 4 announcement. The two-year program runs through 2027 and 2028 and expands on the $2 billion the company committed in 2024. It follows Baxtel's Nov. 2 report on Google's $160...
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November 04, 2026 OpenAI
OpenAI is now calling its data centers compute campuses, a change that arrived with a policy package published two days after the midterms. The company released a National Community Compact and a Compute Campus Policy Blueprint on Nov. 5. The compact covers future campuses that OpenAI owns and...
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November 02, 2026 Google
Google will fund US$160 million of shared water infrastructure in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia, for its planned Port Dickson data center campus. Google announced the commitment on November 2. Gamuda Berhad will build an off-river storage reservoir and a water treatment plant that will deliver 65...
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October 29, 2026 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft will buy the entire output of two new solar projects in Japan developed by Blueleaf Energy under long-term power purchase agreements. Macquarie Asset Management, which owns Blueleaf, said in a press release on Oct. 28 that its Energy Markets and Customer Solutions team coordinated both...
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October 29, 2026 Google
Google is considering a 1,200MW data center campus on about 1,000 acres in Goochland County, Virginia, the county confirmed on Oct. 28. The county's announcement named Google as the company behind a project that appeared in Virginia regulatory filings in July without an identified owner....
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October 29, 2026 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft is extending the useful life of its data centers and office buildings to 25 years from 15, effective this fiscal year. The company reported fiscal first-quarter Microsoft Cloud revenue up 30% on Oct. 28, with Azure revenue up 48%, according to Microsoft's earnings release....
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October 28, 2026 Google
Oracle will sell Google's Tensor Processing Units through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure under a deal the companies announced on Oct. 27. The agreement makes OCI the first hyperscale cloud platform outside Google to offer the chips, Google Cloud said. TPU capacity on OCI is scheduled to become...
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October 27, 2026 OpenAI
Clayco and Kiewit New Mexico Co. topped out the 855,000-square-foot first building at Project Jupiter, a data center campus in Doña Ana County, New Mexico. The contractors placed the final structural beam atop the building, completing its primary structural framework, Clayco announced on October...
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October 27, 2026 Google
Hermantown has moved its City Council vote on Google's proposed data center to Friday after protests shut down two meetings. The city scheduled the session for 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 30 with the same six resolutions from the canceled Oct. 27 agenda, according to a city press release. The...
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October 26, 2026 OpenAI
OpenAI has applied for a federal permit to fill 72 acres of wetlands at its Project Camellia data center campus in Georgia. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Savannah District is taking public comments on the application through Nov. 4, the Savannah Morning News reported. The campus is...
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October 26, 2026 Google
Finland's Licensing and Supervision Authority has told Google subsidiary Tuike Finland to keep preparatory work at its Muhos and Kajaani data center sites suspended. The agency set an Oct. 23 deadline for felling, excavation, blasting and road building to stop at both sites, according to its...
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October 23, 2026 Google
Google will buy 1,070 MW of additional flexible capacity from Voltus in the PJM grid region. The companies announced the expansion of their Bring Your Own Capacity agreement on Oct. 22, adding 1,070 MW to the 100 MW they committed in June. Voltus aggregates flexible capacity from homes and...
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October 22, 2026 Norway
Crusoe will take a second, larger building at Polar Data Centers' Tørdal campus in Norway. Polar announced the expansion on Oct. 21 (announcement). The new building, DRA02, will add 40MW of liquid-cooled critical IT capacity on hydroelectric power and is due online in late 2027. Crusoe plans...
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October 22, 2026 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft filed for state review on October 20 of a three-building data center campus in Rome, Georgia, with 422MW of planned capacity. The Development of Regional Impact application covers 349 acres at 0 Huffaker Road and 1,659,000 square feet of floor space. Microsoft owns the land, bought in...
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October 21, 2026 Magnora
Magnora Data Center ASA has acquired an operating data center in Oslo from an international telecom operator, adding up to 2MW of IT load. The seller is not named, and financial terms were not disclosed. Magnora Data Center owns 75 percent of the facility, and Blix Group AS, the owner of...
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October 20, 2026 Google
Entergy Arkansas plans roughly $600 million of new generation and transmission for Google's data center campus in West Memphis, Arkansas, with Google covering the cost. The utility announced a second phase of its service agreement on Oct. 19 that adds a 440 MW solar contract and two battery...
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