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2026 Is the Year Texas Passes Virginia in Data Center Capacity

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 thiEditorial exterior view of a mo...

SoftBank Explores Potential AI Data Center Project in Borneo

Softbank Corp.

SoftBank Group, Singaporean technology company Grab Holdings, and Malaysian oil and gas firm Petroleum Sarawak Berhad (Petros) have signed a framework agreement to explore an AI and digital infrastructure platform in Sarawak, Malaysia. Details of any planned data center development have not been ...

Third Yandex Data Center in Russia Hit by Drone Strike

Yandex NV

A third Yandex data center in Russia has been hit by Ukrainian drone strikes within a week, forcing the company to suspend operations at its Vladimir facility. Yandex said no one was injured, but at least 84 services were affected, with Yandex Cloud operating in limited mode. The Sasovo and Kalug...

FERC Backs PJM Data Center Registry, Rejects Curtailment Plan

United States

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved a registry of large electricity users, including data centers, in an Oct. 9 order in Docket ER26-3515, but rejected PJM Interconnection's plan to curtail those customers ahead of other demand response when the grid is stressed. The order keeps PJM...

NTT Data in Final Talks for 500MW, $6.3B Anthropic Data Center in Osaka

NTT

NTT Data Group is in the final stages of talks to build a data center in Osaka for Anthropic, Nikkei reported Tuesday. Construction could cost up to 1 trillion yen ($6.3 billion), and the site would draw Official NTT rendering of its large-scale Kansai data center campus development in western Ja...

Nebius Signs LOI to Anchor VOLT's 600MW Rotterdam AI Gigafactory

Nebius

VOLT has lined up Nebius as the first off-taker at its Rotterdam AI Gigafactory, the anchor customer the Dutch developer needs before it can take a 600 MW campus at the Port of Rotterdam to lenders. The letter of intent, announced Monday, covers a long-term lease, with a first phase of two buildi...

NTT Data Nears $6.3B, 500MW Data Center Deal For Anthropic In Osaka

NTT

NTT Data Group is in the final stages of talks to build a data center in Osaka Prefecture for Anthropic, in what would be the U.S. AI developer's first dedicated facility in Japan. The project could draw up to 500 MW and cost as much as ¥1 trillion, abouArchitectural rendering of an NTT Kansai/Ke...

Orcadian Energy Ends Data Center Deal for North Sea Gas Field

Orcadian Energy

UK oil and gas firm Orcadian Energy has terminated an agreement with an undisclosed US digital infrastructure operator to develop a gas-powered offshore data center in the North Sea. The July agreement proposed a data center of up to 200MW powered by gas from the Earlham and Orwell fields, estima...

Data Center Fires and Power Outages Have Doubled Since 2024

United States

Data center fires and power failures have more than doubled since 2024, according to the Energy Incident Register. Reported incidents rose from eight in 2024 to 20 in 2025 and 19 in 2026. Of 93 incidents recorded across 26 countries since 2010, 47 occurred from 2024 onward. The US recorded 33 inc...

Top Data Center News for 5th - 10th October, 2026

AWS Plans 36-Building Data Center Campus in Pennsylvania Amazon Web Services (AWS) has revealed plans for a 36-building data center campus at the Homer City Energy Campus in Pennsylvania, expected to span 1,100 acres across Center and Blacklick Townships in Indiana County, and create 1,500-2,000 ...

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

Microsoft Azure

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 on M...

SWI Raises €800m to Fund Data Center Expansion

SWI Group

European real estate investor SWI has raised €800 million ($892.4m) through a capital increase involving institutional investors and new share issuance. The Euronext Amsterdam-listed company will use the funds to expand its data center and AI compute platforms across Europe and the US, including ...

Five-Building Data Center Planned in Metter, Georgia

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 ...

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

ServerFarm Realty

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 ce...

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

Pacifico Energy

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 Count...

Council Rejects 80MW Data Center Proposal in Northern Italy

Italy

Cologno Monzese City Council in Lombardy, Italy, has unanimously rejected an 80MW data center proposed by Officine Mak and 2C Sviluppo Immobiliare Spa at the former Torriani industrial site. The project, which was expected to generate €12 million ($13.4 million) in council fees, included two data...

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

ServerDomes Global: Hueco Ranch

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 ...

Finland Halts Two Google Data Center Builds Over 300-Hectare Forest Clearing

Google

Finnish regulators have ordered a halt to work at two planned Google data centers after more than 300 hectares of forest were cleared before mandatory environmental impact assessments were completed, the BBC reported. The order covers the company's project sites in Muhos and Kajaani, both in the ...

Cipher Digital Extends Barber Lake Lease to 20 Years, Revenue Tops $9 Billion

Cipher Digital

Cipher Digital has extended the contracted lease life of its Barber Lake data center in Colorado City, Texas from 10 years to 20, lifting total contracted revenue at the site from $3.8 billion to more than $9 billion. The increase, announced in late September as the first buildings near completio...

Digital Realty Starts 24MW KIX15 Data Center At Osaka KIX Campus

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has begun construction of KIX15, a 24-megawatt data center at its KIX Campus in Ibaraki City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, the company announced on Oct. 7. The facility is being developed by MC Digital Realty, the operator's 50/50 joint venture with Mitsubishi Corporation, and is sched...