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Read AEP And X-energy Study 960MW SMR Plant To Power Amazon In Indiana
X-energy and American Electric Power will study a 960 MW advanced nuclear plant at a retired coal station in Sullivan County, Indiana, with Amazon funding development work and positioned to buy the...

AEP And X-energy Study 960MW SMR Plant To Power Amazon In Indiana

October 20, 2026 Indiana

X-energy and American Electric Power will study a 960 MW advanced nuclear plant at a retired coal station in Sullivan County, Indiana, with Amazon funding development work and positioned to buy the plant's output. The companies announced a joint development agreement on Oct. 19 covering...

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Read Entergy Adds 440MW Solar PPA For Google West Memphis Expansion
Entergy Arkansas plans roughly $600 million of new generation and transmission for [Google](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/google)'s data center campus in [West Memphis](https://baxtel.com/data-ce...

Entergy Adds 440MW Solar PPA For Google West Memphis Expansion

October 20, 2026 Arkansas

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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Read Microsoft To Fund 1,100MW Of Indiana Generation Under 20-Year NiSource Deal
Microsoft will pay for all the generation and transmission needed to serve its La Porte, Indiana data center campus under a 20-year electric service agreement with [NiSource](https://www.nisource.c...

Microsoft To Fund 1,100MW Of Indiana Generation Under 20-Year NiSource Deal

October 19, 2026 Indiana

Microsoft will pay for all the generation and transmission needed to serve its La Porte, Indiana data center campus under a 20-year electric service agreement with NiSource announced Oct. 16. Service starts in 2028. The utility's unregulated affiliate, NiSource Generation Company, will add...

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Read NiSource And Microsoft Sign 20-Year Deal For 1,100MW Of Indiana Power
Microsoft will fund about 1,100 MW of new generation and transmission in northern Indiana and buy the output for 20 years under an agreement with [NiSource](https://www.nisource.com/news/article/ni...

NiSource And Microsoft Sign 20-Year Deal For 1,100MW Of Indiana Power

October 19, 2026 Indiana

Microsoft will fund about 1,100 MW of new generation and transmission in northern Indiana and buy the output for 20 years under an agreement with NiSource, the holding company that owns Northern Indiana Public Service Company. Announced Friday, the deal covers the La Porte data center campus...

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Read Digital Realty Picks Kokomo for 1GW Campus, Its First in Indiana
[Digital Realty](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/digital-realty-trust) wants to build its first [Indiana](https://baxtel.com/regions/indiana) data centers in Kokomo, proposing a three-building camp...

Digital Realty Picks Kokomo for 1GW Campus, Its First in Indiana

October 17, 2026 Indiana

Digital Realty wants to build its first Indiana data centers in Kokomo, proposing a three-building campus with roughly 1GW of IT capacity on 476 acres of greenfield land. The global REIT published a project page for the development after city officials confirmed its interest earlier this month,...

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Read Digital Realty Proposes 1GW Data Center Campus In Kokomo, Indiana

[Digital Realty](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/digital-realty-trust) is proposing a three-building data center campus on about 476 acres at Industrial Park North in Kokomo, Indiana, with a site...

Digital Realty Proposes 1GW Data Center Campus In Kokomo, Indiana

October 16, 2026 Indiana

Digital Realty is proposing a three-building data center campus on about 476 acres at Industrial Park North in Kokomo, Indiana, with a site plan that calls for roughly 1GW of IT capacity and completion in 2033. The company published the details on its Kokomo project page, and Kokomo Mayor Tyler...

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Read 2026 Is the Year Texas Passes Virginia in Data Center Capacity
[Texas](https://baxtel.com/data-center/texas) now has more data center capacity operating and under construction than [Virginia](https://baxtel.com/data-center/virginia). Baxtel tracks 28.3 GW buil...

2026 Is the Year Texas Passes Virginia in Data Center Capacity

October 13, 2026 Texas

Texas now has more data center capacity operating and under construction than Virginia. Baxtel tracks 28.3 GW built or building in Texas, against 17.8 GW in Virginia. On capacity already online, Virginia still leads, 12.3 GW to 11.1 GW. If projects scheduled for this year deliver on time, Texas...

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Read Serverfarm Tops Out First 108MW Building at $6.6B Arkansas Campus
[Serverfarm](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/serverfarm-realty) has topped out the first building at its $6.6 billion data center campus in Clarksville, Arkansas, placing the final structural beam ...

Serverfarm Tops Out First 108MW Building at $6.6B Arkansas Campus

October 12, 2026 Arkansas

Serverfarm has topped out the first building at its $6.6 billion data center campus in Clarksville, Arkansas, placing the final structural beam on a 300,000 sq ft facility set to deliver 108MW of capacity. Chief executive Avner Papouchado announced the milestone on LinkedIn, with the Wednesday...

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Read ServerDomes Global Breaks Ground on 350MW Hueco Ranch Campus Near El Paso
Kaufman & Company and ServerDomes Global broke ground on Oct. 7 on Hueco Ranch, a $15 billion geodesic-dome data center campus near Desert Haven in Hudspeth County, Texas. The campus spans roughly ...

ServerDomes Global Breaks Ground on 350MW Hueco Ranch Campus Near El Paso

October 11, 2026 Texas

Kaufman & Company and ServerDomes Global broke ground on Oct. 7 on Hueco Ranch, a $15 billion geodesic-dome data center campus near Desert Haven in Hudspeth County, Texas. The campus spans roughly 24,000 acres and is planned to generate 350 MW, KTSM reported. County officials say no one told...

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Read ThisWay Global Plans 73MW AI and HPC Data Center in Bryan, Texas
ThisWay Global plans a 73MW data center in Bryan, Texas, called the Research and AI Compute Center (RACC). Located at Texas A&M-RELLIS, it will provide AI and HPC resources to eligible researchers,...

ThisWay Global Plans 73MW AI and HPC Data Center in Bryan, Texas

October 10, 2026 Texas

ThisWay Global plans a 73MW data center in Bryan, Texas, called the Research and AI Compute Center (RACC). Located at Texas A&M-RELLIS, it will provide AI and HPC resources to eligible researchers, public-sector organizations, and industry users. The project is planned for a 25-acre site,...

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Read ThisWay Global Revives Bankrupt Texas A&M Site As 73MW AI Center
ThisWay Global plans a 73MW research and artificial intelligence computing center at the Texas A&M-RELLIS campus in Bryan, Texas, reviving a $700 million project that stalled when its original deve...

ThisWay Global Revives Bankrupt Texas A&M Site As 73MW AI Center

October 09, 2026 Texas

ThisWay Global plans a 73MW research and artificial intelligence computing center at the Texas A&M-RELLIS campus in Bryan, Texas, reviving a $700 million project that stalled when its original developer filed for bankruptcy. The Austin company announced the Research and AI Compute Center...

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Read Crusoe Files For $4.8B Data Center Campus In Jayton, Texas
Crusoe has filed plans with the [Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation](https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/tabs/search) for a two-building data center campus in Jayton, in rural Kent County, Texas, ...

Crusoe Files For $4.8B Data Center Campus In Jayton, Texas

October 02, 2026 Texas

Crusoe has filed plans with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation for a two-building data center campus in Jayton, in rural Kent County, Texas, carrying an estimated investment of $4.8 billion. The filings, first reported by Data Center Dynamics, place the site along County Road 233...

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Read JV Plans 54MW Data Center In Dallas, Texas
A new 54MW data center is planned for the North Dallas Corridor, with Northampton Capital Partners and Provident Data Centers targeting a late 2027 launch. The exact location has not been disclosed...

JV Plans 54MW Data Center In Dallas, Texas

September 07, 2026 Texas

A new 54MW data center is planned for the North Dallas Corridor, with Northampton Capital Partners and Provident Data Centers targeting a late 2027 launch. The exact location has not been disclosed. The companies also agreed to develop additional inference-ready data center sites across US...

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Read Blue Energy, GE Vernova Hitachi Advance 2.5GW Texas Power Plant for Data Center
US nuclear energy company Blue Energy and GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy have agreed to advance a 2.5GW gas-and-nuclear power plant in Victoria, Texas, to supply a nearby data center. The projec...

Blue Energy, GE Vernova Hitachi Advance 2.5GW Texas Power Plant for Data Center

August 17, 2026 Texas

US nuclear energy company Blue Energy and GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy have agreed to advance a 2.5GW gas-and-nuclear power plant in Victoria, Texas, to supply a nearby data center. The project will combine GE Vernova gas turbines with BWRX-300 small modular reactors. Blue Energy plans to...

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Read Texas Grid Audit Pauses New Data Center Approvals Across ERCOT
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered an audit of every data center advancing through ERCOT's interconnection process before additional projects can move forward. ERCOT has paused its Batch Zero l...

Texas Grid Audit Pauses New Data Center Approvals Across ERCOT

August 06, 2026 Texas

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered an audit of every data center advancing through ERCOT's interconnection process before additional projects can move forward. ERCOT has paused its Batch Zero large-load review, creating a new schedule risk for developers. The order is serious, but it is not a...

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Read PowerPlay AI and Sharon AI Plan 400MW Gas-Powered Data Centre in Texas
PowerPlay AI has unveiled plans for a 400MW behind-the-meter natural gas-powered AI data centre near Abilene, Texas, through a joint venture with neocloud provider Sharon AI. The companies said sit...

PowerPlay AI and Sharon AI Plan 400MW Gas-Powered Data Centre in Texas

July 30, 2026 Texas

PowerPlay AI has unveiled plans for a 400MW behind-the-meter natural gas-powered AI data centre near Abilene, Texas, through a joint venture with neocloud provider Sharon AI. The companies said site planning and land acquisition have been completed, with work now focused on securing gas supply...

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Read Rowan Plans Second Building at Temple, Texas Data Centre Campus
US data centre firm Rowan has filed plans to expand its Temple, Texas campus. The company is proposing AUS02 Building 2 at 1855 Bob White Road in Bell County. The $780 million project will deliver ...

Rowan Plans Second Building at Temple, Texas Data Centre Campus

July 29, 2026 Texas

US data centre firm Rowan has filed plans to expand its Temple, Texas campus. The company is proposing AUS02 Building 2 at 1855 Bob White Road in Bell County. The $780 million project will deliver a 500,000 sq ft (46,451 sqm) single-storey facility. Construction is scheduled from August 2026 to...

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Read Flexential Acquires 110 Acres Near Dallas for 108MW Data Centre Campus
Flexential has acquired 110 acres in Kaufman County, Texas, for its fourth and largest data centre development in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Located in Talty, the first phase will deliver a 375,00...

Flexential Acquires 110 Acres Near Dallas for 108MW Data Centre Campus

July 28, 2026 Texas

Flexential has acquired 110 acres in Kaufman County, Texas, for its fourth and largest data centre development in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Located in Talty, the first phase will deliver a 375,000 sq ft (34,840 sqm) facility with 36MW of capacity, supporting wholesale and multi-tenant...

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Read Lawsuit Targets Vantage, VoltaGrid Over San Antonio Off-Grid Data Centre Project
Several environmental groups have threatened to sue Vantage Data Centers and VoltaGrid over two planned natural gas-powered off-grid data centres near San Antonio, Texas. The Environmental Integrit...

Lawsuit Targets Vantage, VoltaGrid Over San Antonio Off-Grid Data Centre Project

July 24, 2026 Texas

Several environmental groups have threatened to sue Vantage Data Centers and VoltaGrid over two planned natural gas-powered off-grid data centres near San Antonio, Texas. The Environmental Integrity Project, the Sierra Club, and Public Citizen allege the companies failed to obtain the required...

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Read Stream Proposes 867-Acre Data Center Campus in Graham, Texas
Headwaters Site Development, an affiliate of Stream Data Centers, is planning a data center campus called Project Saltworks on an approximately 890-acre site in Graham, Texas. The proposed developm...

Stream Proposes 867-Acre Data Center Campus in Graham, Texas

July 18, 2026 Texas

Headwaters Site Development, an affiliate of Stream Data Centers, is planning a data center campus called Project Saltworks on an approximately 890-acre site in Graham, Texas. The proposed development would include 15 data center buildings on land south of Lake Graham, near FM 61 and FM 209....

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