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Compass Datacenters Funds $15M Animal Shelter Amid Ellis County Data Center Debate

Compass Datacenters

Compass Datacenters is seeking to ease opposition to its data center plans by proposing a $15 million contribution toward a new animal shelter in Red Oak, Ellis County, Texas. A June 2 statement said Ellis County and Compass Datacenters have announced a proposed $15 million grant agreement to fun...

Microsoft Seeks Expansion of Mecklenburg County, Virginia Data Center Campus

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has filed plans to expand its data center footprint in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, with a proposed 490-acre campus adjacent to its existing AVC17 facility. The project would add three data center buildings, an electrical substation, and supporting infrastructure to help meet growing d...

Damac Digital Unveils 6GW Data Center Expansion Across Four Continents

DAMAC Digital

The data center arm of UAE property conglomerate Damac has said it plans to achieve an IT capacity landbank of 6GW across 13 countries and more than 35 sites. The Dubai-based firm said it is expanding in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East driven by an increasing demand for AI, cloud ...

Eagle Rock Proposes 1GW Data Center Campus in Illinois’ Christian County

Eagle Rock Partners

Property developer Eagle Rock has proposed building a 1GW data center campus in Christian County, Illinois. The $8.8 billion project would span 475 acres south of E 1100 North Road, west of N 900 East Road, north of County Road 1000 North, and east of N 800 East Road. According to WAND News, the ...

Gigawatt Scale Data Center and Energy Project Kicks Off in Texas

Google

Google and Intersect Power have begun construction at the Meitner Energy Center, a colocated data center and energy project spanning Gray and Roberts Counties, Texas. The development combines a data center with more than 1GW of wind, solar, and battery storage capacity. The companies said the col...

Yondr Secures Funding for Data Center Expansion

EverYondr

Yondr Group has secured new financing to support its data center expansion plans. The company announced this week that it has arranged two new corporate facilities to help scale its operations across Europe and North America, though the size of the facilities was not disclosed. The financing i...

Schneider Electric Unveils New Data Center Chiller Line

United States

Schneider Electric has introduced a new range of air-cooled and free-cooling chillers. This week, the company unveiled its Uniflair XCA chiller line, designed to support the requirements of high-density, liquid-cooled data centers. The range includes the Uniflair XCAC air-cooled and Uniflair X...

DXN Secures Deal with Unnamed Neocloud to Deliver Modular Data Center

DXN Limited

DXN has been chosen by an undisclosed neocloud provider to deliver a modular data center solution. The contract, valued at AU$8.8 million (US$6.29 million), will see DXN design, engineer, manufacture, and commission an AI HPC modular data center system for the client, providing a total capacit...

EdgeConneX Proposes twin 730,000 sq ft Data Centers in Bastrop County

EdgeConneX

US operator EdgeConneX has filed plans to construct two 730,000-square-foot (67,820 sqm) data centers in Bastrop County, Texas. Named EDCAUS11 and EDCAUS12, the projects are planned for a 180-acre site at 6682 FM 535 in Cedar Creek, which the company acquired in November 2025. The parcel is lo...

Google Breaks Ground on Swedish data center in Horndal

Google

Google has officially broken ground on a new data center in Horndal, Sweden. Located in Avesta Municipality in Dalarna County, the facility will be the company’s first self-developed, owned, and operated data center in the country. While limited details have been released, Google says the site...

Brookfield Increases French Data Center Investment by €10 Billion

Brookfield Asset Management

France has secured billions of dollars in new investments across data centers, cloud services, and artificial intelligence. At this week’s Choose France Summit, President Emmanuel Macron unveiled a series of investment commitments tied to data center development and broader digital infrastruct...

Era4 Proposes Landfill Gas-fueled Data Center in Canterbury, UK

United Kingdom

UK data center developer Era4 is moving forward with plans to establish a facility at a landfill site in Canterbury. The company, formerly known as Carbon3.ai, has submitted an application to Kent County Council for the development of a data center at the Shelford Farm Estate on Broad Oak Road...

340,000-Square-Foot Data Center and Office Property Listed for Sale in Downtown St. Louis

Missouri

A 340,000-square-foot (31,587 sqm) property combining data center and office space has been listed for sale in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. Situated at 1831 Chestnut Condominium, the six-story building occupies a 4.24-acre site and includes approximately 53,000 square feet (4,923 sqm) dedicat...

Top Data Center News for 25th-30th of May, 2026

Rowan Secures $3bn in Green Financing for Texas Data Center CampusRowan Digital Infrastructure has secured about $3 billion to support construction of its turnkey data center campus in Temple in a deal which marks the largest financing in its history and will fund development of the 300MW camp...

Stockland Files Plans for Additional Data Center Development in Melbourne

Stockland Corp. Ltd

Australian real estate company Stockland has submitted plans to develop a new data center campus in Melbourne, Australia. According to Victoria’s planning register, the company filed a planning permit application late last month for a two-story, 250MW data center at 412 Francis Street in Brook...

Arcem Acquires Land in Joroinen, Finland for 500MW Data Center Campus

Academic and Research Network of Slovenia (ARNES)

Arcem has acquired land in eastern Finland for a planned data center development, following an agreement with the municipality of Joroinen. Under the deal, the first phase of the project is expected to deliver 60MW of capacity by 2027, with expansion potential reaching 100MW before 2029. In th...

Polar DC Secures €800 Million Senior Secured Bond for Norway Data Center Project

Polar DC

Nordic AI data center developer Polar DC has raised an €800 million ($932.2 million) senior secured bond in the Nordic bond market.The company, which is owned by alternative investment firm H.I.G. Capital, plans to use the proceeds to refinance existing debt tied to its first data center in Dr...

Legacy Investing Plans 50MW Data Center Near San Antonio, Texas

Legacy Investing

Real estate investment firm Legacy is developing a new data center project outside San Antonio, Texas.The company this week announced plans for a 50MW facility at 1000 Bolton Road in Marion, Guadalupe County. The 39-acre site is expected to include more than 100,000 square feet (9,290 square m...

DDSP Secures $283 Million in Funding for Johor Data Center Project

Malaysia

Digital Decarbonization Solutions Platform (DDSP), an Asia-Pacific developer of data centers and decarbonized energy solutions, has secured $283 million in green financing for a planned build-to-suit data center campus in Johor, Malaysia. The proposed facility will be a 45MW liquid-cooled camp...

Digital Edge Reaches Topping-Out Milestone for First Data Center Near Jakarta

Digital Edge DC

Asia-Pacific data center operator Digital Edge has reached a major construction milestone with the topping out of the first facility at its new campus near Jakarta, Indonesia. The company announced the completion of the structural framework for CGK1, the inaugural building within its CGK Campu...