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Read OpenAI Rebrands Data Centers as Compute Campuses After Midterm Rebuke
[OpenAI](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/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 rel...

OpenAI Rebrands Data Centers as Compute Campuses After Midterm Rebuke

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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Read Sabey Data Centers Pilots HVO Diesel Replacement at Austin Data Center
[Sabey Data Centers](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/sabey-data-centers) has started a pilot using hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) as a diesel replacement in backup generators at its Austin campus...

Sabey Data Centers Pilots HVO Diesel Replacement at Austin Data Center

October 30, 2026 Austin

Sabey Data Centers has started a pilot using hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) as a diesel replacement in backup generators at its Austin campus. The company is testing the renewable fuel as the primary fuel source for those generators, according to Sabey's announcement. Sabey says the pilot...

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Read AirTrunk Secures A$4.25B Green Loan for SYD3 Sydney Campus
AirTrunk has secured an [A$4.25 billion green loan](https://airtrunk.com/airtrunk-secures-a4-25b-green-loan-for-syd3-western-sydney-expansion-supporting-australias-digital-economy) to fund continue...

AirTrunk Secures A$4.25B Green Loan for SYD3 Sydney Campus

October 28, 2026 Sydney

AirTrunk has secured an A$4.25 billion green loan to fund continued development of its SYD3 campus in Western Sydney. Reuters put the facility at about US$2.98 billion. Thirty-two local and international financial institutions backed the debt, which 14 lead banks underwrote. AirTrunk develops and...

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Read Clayco and Kiewit Top Out First Building at Project Jupiter in New Mexico
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](https://baxtel.com/regions/new-mexico). ...

Clayco and Kiewit Top Out First Building at Project Jupiter in New Mexico

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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Read OpenAI Seeks Permit To Fill 72 Acres Of Wetlands At Project Camellia
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 comm...

OpenAI Seeks Permit To Fill 72 Acres Of Wetlands At Project Camellia

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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Read Princeton Digital Group Linked to A$1B, 100MW Sydney Data Centre
Planning documents filed with the [New South Wales](https://baxtel.com/regions/new-south-wales) government identify [Princeton Digital Group](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/princeton-digital-group...

Princeton Digital Group Linked to A$1B, 100MW Sydney Data Centre

October 26, 2026 Sydney

Planning documents filed with the New South Wales government identify Princeton Digital Group as the client behind a 100-megawatt data centre in Sydney's southwest. The scoping report, first reported by Mingtiandi on Oct. 24, describes capital investment above A$1 billion (US$701 million). If...

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Read Crusoe Takes 40MW Second Phase At Polar's Hydro-Powered Norway Campus
[Crusoe](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/crusoe) will take a second, larger building at [Polar Data Centers](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/polar-dc)' Tørdal campus in Norway. Polar announced the ...

Crusoe Takes 40MW Second Phase At Polar's Hydro-Powered Norway Campus

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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Read Big Watt, PowerHouse Win Taylor Approval for 1GW Texas Data Center Campus
Taylor City Council voted 5-0 on Oct. 8 to approve a development agreement with Big Watt Digital and PowerHouse Data Centers for the Taylor Technology Campus, a 664-acre hyperscale project immediat...

Big Watt, PowerHouse Win Taylor Approval for 1GW Texas Data Center Campus

October 15, 2026 Austin

Taylor City Council voted 5-0 on Oct. 8 to approve a development agreement with Big Watt Digital and PowerHouse Data Centers for the Taylor Technology Campus, a 664-acre hyperscale project immediately east of the city that could reach one gigawatt of capacity. The joint venture announced the...

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Read Big Watt, PowerHouse Win Approval for 1GW Behind-the-Meter Texas Campus
Taylor City Council voted 5-0 on Oct. 8 to approve a development agreement with Big Watt Digital and PowerHouse Data Centers for Taylor Technology Campus, a 664-acre data center and power project e...

Big Watt, PowerHouse Win Approval for 1GW Behind-the-Meter Texas Campus

October 15, 2026 Austin

Taylor City Council voted 5-0 on Oct. 8 to approve a development agreement with Big Watt Digital and PowerHouse Data Centers for Taylor Technology Campus, a 664-acre data center and power project east of the city that could reach one gigawatt of capacity. In a joint press release, the partners...

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Read Taylor Approves 1GW Gas-Fired Data Center Campus for Big Watt, PowerHouse
Taylor City Council voted 5-0 on Oct. 8 to annex and approve a development agreement for Taylor Technology Campus, a 664-acre hyperscale project east of Taylor that Big Watt Digital and PowerHouse ...

Taylor Approves 1GW Gas-Fired Data Center Campus for Big Watt, PowerHouse

October 15, 2026 Austin

Taylor City Council voted 5-0 on Oct. 8 to annex and approve a development agreement for Taylor Technology Campus, a 664-acre hyperscale project east of Taylor that Big Watt Digital and PowerHouse Data Centers say could support up to one gigawatt. The partners announced the approval in a Business...

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Read Microsoft Trims Mount Pleasant Data Center Plan To Seven Buildings From Nine
Microsoft has cut the number of buildings planned for the 791-acre Durand Avenue portion of its Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, data center campus to seven from nine, reducing the parcel's projected tax...

Microsoft Trims Mount Pleasant Data Center Plan To Seven Buildings From Nine

October 12, 2026 Milwaukee

Microsoft has cut the number of buildings planned for the 791-acre Durand Avenue portion of its Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, data center campus to seven from nine, reducing the parcel's projected taxable value by about 24 percent, or nearly $1.9 billion, the Milwaukee Business Journal reported...

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Read Five-Building Data Center Planned in Metter, Georgia
A five-building data center campus has been proposed in Georgia.
Canoochee River RV Resort, LLC has filed an application with the Georgia Department of Community Affairs for the proposed Canoochee...

Five-Building Data Center Planned in Metter, Georgia

October 12, 2026 Georgia

A five-building data center campus has been proposed in Georgia. Canoochee River RV Resort, LLC has filed an application with the Georgia Department of Community Affairs for the proposed Canoochee River RV Resort Data Center Project. The development is planned for a 470-acre site at 2700 Airport...

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Read Project Longhorn Files $366M First Building at Anthropic-Linked Texas Campus
The first data center building at the 2,842-acre Cedar Creek campus being developed by [Pacifico Energy](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/pacifico-energy) and [BlackChamber Group](https://baxtel.com...

Project Longhorn Files $366M First Building at Anthropic-Linked Texas Campus

October 11, 2026 Austin

The first data center building at the 2,842-acre Cedar Creek campus being developed by Pacifico Energy and BlackChamber Group is on file with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. The October 7 filing, reported by Community Impact, outlines a $366 million building at the Bastrop...

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Read OpenAI, Anthropic Target 20–30MW Data Center Deployments
Alongside large AI training clusters, OpenAI and Anthropic are exploring smaller data center deployments. The companies are discussing 20–30MW capacity deals, likely for inference workloads. OpenAI...

OpenAI, Anthropic Target 20–30MW Data Center Deployments

September 23, 2026 OpenAI

Alongside large AI training clusters, OpenAI and Anthropic are exploring smaller data center deployments. The companies are discussing 20–30MW capacity deals, likely for inference workloads. OpenAI has held talks with data center operators in the US and Nordics, while Anthropic has explored...

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Read OpenAI Adds Yvette Eden Ruiz To Community Engagement Team From JPMorgan Amid Data Center Backlash
OpenAI has hired senior executive Yvette Eden Ruiz to join its growing Community Engagement team as opposition to data center development intensifies. Ruiz joins from JPMorgan Chase, where she spen...

OpenAI Adds Yvette Eden Ruiz To Community Engagement Team From JPMorgan Amid Data Center Backlash

September 11, 2026 OpenAI

OpenAI has hired senior executive Yvette Eden Ruiz to join its growing Community Engagement team as opposition to data center development intensifies. Ruiz joins from JPMorgan Chase, where she spent 12 years. She announced her new role on LinkedIn. "I hesitated to post this, in part because...

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Read Exascale Labs Partners With EnergyBank On Floating Wind Data Center Pilot In Norway
AI data center developer Exascale Labs has partnered with energy storage firm EnergyBank to explore AI data centers powered by floating offshore wind and long-duration battery storage. Under a non-...

Exascale Labs Partners With EnergyBank On Floating Wind Data Center Pilot In Norway

August 31, 2026 Norway

AI data center developer Exascale Labs has partnered with energy storage firm EnergyBank to explore AI data centers powered by floating offshore wind and long-duration battery storage. Under a non-binding MoU, the companies will develop an initial pilot with Zephyros-One, a 2.3MW floating wind...

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Read OpenAI Secures Approval For 3.2GW Power Deal For Georgia Data Center
The Georgia Public Service Commission has approved a power supply agreement between Georgia Power and OpenAI for its planned data center in Effingham County. Under the deal, Georgia Power will add ...

OpenAI Secures Approval For 3.2GW Power Deal For Georgia Data Center

August 27, 2026 OpenAI

The Georgia Public Service Commission has approved a power supply agreement between Georgia Power and OpenAI for its planned data center in Effingham County. Under the deal, Georgia Power will add 3.2GW of generation capacity, with OpenAI covering the full infrastructure costs. The type of...

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Read OpenAI’s Head Of Data Centers Chris Malone Departs Amid Leadership Changes
Chris Malone has left OpenAI after 18 months as head of data centers, amid several recent executive departures and changes within the company’s data center team. Malone joined OpenAI from Meta, whe...

OpenAI’s Head Of Data Centers Chris Malone Departs Amid Leadership Changes

August 26, 2026 OpenAI

Chris Malone has left OpenAI after 18 months as head of data centers, amid several recent executive departures and changes within the company’s data center team. Malone joined OpenAI from Meta, where he spent nearly five years as a distinguished engineer. Before that, he worked at Google for...

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Read Magnora to Launch 1MW Data Center in Oslo, Norway
European data center firm Magnora plans to develop a new facility in Oslo, Norway. Euronext Oslo-listed Magnora Data Center has formed a 50:50 joint venture with Blix Group AS and acquired a commer...

Magnora to Launch 1MW Data Center in Oslo, Norway

August 11, 2026 Norway

European data center firm Magnora plans to develop a new facility in Oslo, Norway. Euronext Oslo-listed Magnora Data Center has formed a 50:50 joint venture with Blix Group AS and acquired a commercial property near Oslo for conversion into an AI data center. The site, formerly used by the...

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Read Gigawatt-Scale Data Centre Campus Planned Near Atlanta, Georgia
A gigawatt-scale data centre campus is planned near Atlanta, Georgia. Developer Stillwater Development has filed a Development of Regional Impact application for the Stillwater Technology Park in L...

Gigawatt-Scale Data Centre Campus Planned Near Atlanta, Georgia

July 27, 2026 Georgia

A gigawatt-scale data centre campus is planned near Atlanta, Georgia. Developer Stillwater Development has filed a Development of Regional Impact application for the Stillwater Technology Park in Lovejoy, around 25 miles (40km) south of downtown Atlanta. The proposed campus at 11760 Panhandle...

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