Data Center News

Australia’s CDC has Opened a New Data Center Campus in Melbourne

Australia

CDC, one of Australia’s largest data center companies, has opened a campus in Brooklyn, Melbourne. The two-facility campus was inaugurated last Thursday with government officials in attendance, including Australia’s assistant treasurer, Daniel Mulino.CDC has not disclosed details about the cam...

A $5 Billion Data Center Project is in Development near Columbus, Georgia

Georgia

A new data center campus may be on the way to Columbus, Georgia. Economic development organization Choose Columbus announced that the Development Authority of Columbus is in negotiations with Habitat Partners to secure a site for the proposed project.Project Ruby would be a $5 billion+ data ce...

Penzance is Targeting the Development of a 600MW Data Center Campus in West Virginia

Penzance

Real estate firm Penzance is developing a large data center campus in West Virginia. Governor of West Virginia Patrick Morrisey last week announced Penzance Management would be investing $4 billion in a data center campus in the state.Situated on 548 acres in Berkeley County’s Falling Waters D...

Boom Supersonic Taps Baker Hughes for Natural Gas Generators to Support 1.21GW Crusoe Data Center Power Deal

United States

Aircraft developer and natural gas turbine provider Boom Supersonic has selected US energy firm Baker Hughes to supply gas-generation equipment to complement its 42MW natural gas turbine platform. The equipment will support a 1.21GW onsite power agreement Boom has signed with AI data center de...

Top Data Center News for 23rd to 28th March, 2026

Amazon to Invest €33.7bn in Data Centers in Aragon, SpainAmazon Web Services (AWS) plans to invest an additional €18 billion in Spain, bringing its total data center infrastructure investment in Aragon to €33.7bn, making it the first major technology company to build data centers in Teruel, co...

AWS UAE hit by AZ Outage after Objects Strike Data Center, Causing fire amid Iran Tensions

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

An Amazon Web Services (AWS) Availability Zone in the UAE is experiencing an outage after being “impacted by objects that struck the data center.” While AWS has not disclosed further details, the incident comes amid ongoing missile and drone attacks on the UAE attributed to Iran.The objects "c...

Digital Realty has Acquired Bulgarian Data Center Operator Telepoin

Digital Realty Bersama

 Digital Realty has acquired Bulgarian data center operator Telepoint, marking the company’s entry into the Eastern European market. Through the deal, Digital Realty takes ownership of Telepoint’s two facilities in the capital, Sofia where the majority of Bulgaria’s data centers are concentrat...

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is Considering the Development of an AI-focused Data Center to Support Department of Energy Research into Large Language Models

Pacific Northwest

The US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has issued a request for information (RFI) for an “on-premises next-generation AI compute data center.”The proposed facility would be funded and operated by the DOE itself, separate from a broader initiative that would ...

MARA has Entered Into a Joint Venture Agreement with Starwood to Expand its US Data Center Portfolio

Starwood Digital Ventures

Marathon Digital Holdings (MARA) has signed a strategic agreement with Starwood Capital Group and its data center platform, Starwood Digital Ventures (SDV), to convert and expand selected sites for enterprise, hyperscale, and AI workloads. SDV will manage the design, development, tenant acquis...

Virginia Lawmakers Split over Future of Data Center Sales Tax Exemption

Virginia

The two houses of Virginia’s legislature, the Senate and the House, have passed two competing budgets that call, respectively, for the removal and approval of an existing data center sales tax exemption. The Senate’s budget proposal calls for ending the exemption effective January 1, 2027, pro...

New Data Center Simulator Game lets Players Build and Manage their own Facility, Set for Release in March

United States

A data center simulator game – aptly named “Data Center” – where you can “build, cable, and grow a living data center,” is set to release later next month. Players will have to “build, cable, and grow a living data center from the group up,” according to the game’s description on Steam. Unlike...

Amazon to Invest €33.7bn in Data Centers in Aragon, Spain

Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to invest an additional €18 billion ($21bn) in Spain, bringing its total data center infrastructure investment in Aragon to €33.7bn ($39.5bn). At MWC26 in Barcelona, the company announced the new buildout, which includes new facilities in the three Aragon provin...

atNorth sold to Equinix and CPP Investments in $4.2bn deal

Nordic data center firm atNorth is set to be acquired by Equinix and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP) in a $4.2 billion deal. Current owner Partners Group said on Friday it had agreed a deal to sell atNorth in a transaction with an enterprise value of $4 billion.News that Equinix...

Digital Edge has Signed an 83MW Solar Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Hexa to Supply Renewable Energy to its Data Center in Navi Mumbai, India

Digital Edge DC

Digital Edge has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Hexa Climate Solutions for 83MW of solar power to support the first phase of its 350MW BOM campus in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.“This 83MW PPA demonstrates how renewable energy can scale with the country’s digital economy, sett...

Xference has Launched a New Distributed Infrastructure Platform from its Data Center in Italy

Italy

Italy-based inference provider Xference has rolled out a new distributed infrastructure from a data center in Bergamo, in the Lombardy region. The startup also announced plans to launch a beta service for 100 selected users in the near term. The development follows a €700,000 (approximately $8...

Google has Acquired a 900-hectare Site in Finland for the Development of a New Data Center

Google

The municipality of Vaala this week announced Google has acquired some 900 hectares in the area. The site is about six kilometres (3.7 miles) from the center of Vaala, near Fingrid's Nuojua substation on both sides of Ouluntie (Highway 22). Full details of the planned development haven’t been ...

Iron-sodium Battery Company Inlyte has Partnered with NTS to Deploy its Solution at a Data Center in Bern, Switzerland

Switzerland

US-based iron-sodium battery storage company Inlyte Energy has teamed up with Swiss data center operator NTS Colocation AG to roll out its technology across NTS’s facilities.The first initiative under the partnership will be a pilot installation at NTS’s data center in Bern. The companies have...

Cogent Completes Conversion of Former Sprint Sites into Data Centers, Continues Discussions Over Potential Sale of Facilities

The last couple of years have seen Cogent converting legacy technical buildings and switch sites previously used for Sprint’s wireline business into colocation data centers. The company has been looking to sell a number of those facilities on a wholesale basis. In October, Cogent signed a lett...

Ciena Launches New Optical Engine Designed For The AI-driven Data Center Era

United States

In its first new solution since acquiring Nubis Communications last year, Ciena continues to tackle data center AI demands with the launch of a flexible, high-density pluggable optical engine, Vesta 200 6.4T CPX. The new solution is claimed to reduce power consumption by up to 70 percent, whil...

President Trump Urges Big Tech to Develop Their Own Power Plants to Support Data Centers Across the US

United States

US President Donald Trump has directed major data center operators and technology companies to build their own power generation infrastructure to supply their facilities. Speaking during his annual State of the Union address, Trump argued that the move is necessary to prevent consumers from be...