Data Center News

STT GDC India Opens New Chennai Data Center, Eyes Potential IPO

India / Bhārata

APAC data center firm ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has launched a new facility in Chennai, India. It made the announcement this week with the opening of its second campus in the city, at Siruseri.Bimal Khandelwal, STT GDC India CEO, said: “The launch of our fourth data centre in ...

SpaceX Unveils Space Tracking Platform, Plans to Share Data At No Cost

United States

 Satellite operator SpaceX unveiled Stargaze, a novel SSA platform that uses 30,000 star trackers on its 9,600-satellite fleet to track surrounding objects in orbit and measure their speeds. “While Stargaze embodies a major improvement to the ability of any operator to fly safely, it is impera...

Proposed Moratorium Puts Planned Maine Data Center at Risk

Maine

Proposals to bring in a data center moratorium in Maine have threatened plans for a new campus in the Pine Tree State. The proposed bill, sponsored by Representative Melanie Sachs, includes a two-year moratorium on facilities above 20MW in the state while the impacts of data centers are studie...

DG Matrix Secures $60m to Scale Solid-State Transformer for Data Center Market

United States

US solid state transformer developer DG Matrix has raised $60 million as part of its Series A funding, led by Engine Ventures.“This Series A marks our transition from breakthrough technology to scaled infrastructure deployment,” said Haroon Inam, CEO of DG Matrix. “We are working with hypersca...

OpenAI Teams up with Tata to Expand Data Center Capacity in India

OpenAI

TCS’ HyperVault unit and OpenAI have agreed to a multi-year partnership to develop AI infrastructure in India. In the initial phase, TCS will develop AI infrastructure with 100MW of capacity, with an option to scale to 1GW.Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI, said: “India is already leading the way in AI ...

Plans Unveiled for Data Center on 60-hectare site in Finnish Lapland

Finnish Lapland

Finnish energy company Pohjan Voima is looking to develop a project in Keminmaa. In other Finnish news, Compute Nordic is expanding its landholdings in Mikkeli, while another company is targeting a development in Närpiö on the country's west coast.“The project would be of great importance to K...

Cryptominer NFN8 Files for Bankruptcy after Data Center Fire and Bitcoin Slump

United States

Cryptominer NFN8 Group has filed for bankruptcy protection in Texas, with all of its assets put up for sale. The company pointed to a number of business challenges that had put pressure on its revenue line, but blamed a late 2025 data center fire for causing bankruptcy."For lessors whose miner...

Kevin O’Leary Targets 7.5GW Data Center Development in Utah

Utah

TV’s Kevin O’Leary is plotting a second “Wonder Valley” development, this time in the US state of Utah, and says the scheme could offer up to 7.5GW of power for hyperscale data centers."We have under development approximately 26,000 acres across two jurisdictions with the infrastructure necess...

50MW Data Center Proposal Progresses in Certosa di Pavia, Italy

Italy

Plans by Italian real estate developer GSM to build a 50MW data center outside the town of Certosa di Pavia in Italy’s Lombardy region have advanced.“We consider this project an affront to our territory and, for this reason, we are carefully analyzing the technical documentation, which has onl...

Zeo Energy to Supply 280MW of Power for Creekstone Energy's up to 10GW Data Center Campus in Millard County, Utah

Utah

US clean energy company Zeo Energy Corp has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with AI data center company Creekstone Energy to develop 280MW of solar and storage capacity for Creekstone’s data center campus in Millard County, Utah.“AI workloads are driving unprecedented demand for pow...

xAI faces legal action from SELC over gas turbine use at Memphis facility

xAI

The US environmental non-profit Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), alongside other environmental groups, is preparing to sue xAI over the deployment of unpermitted gas turbines powering its Colossus 2 data center in Memphis, Tennessee.“xAI has once again built a polluting power plant wi...

Oklahoma House Committee Moves Forward Bill on Data Center Grid Costs

Oklahoma

An Oklahoma House budget subcommittee has approved legislation aimed at protecting residential ratepayers from having to foot the bill for new infrastructure driven by rising data center demand.“This would make sure that regular ratepayers aren’t having to pay for those really high energy cost...

Adani Plans to Develop 5GW of Data Center Capacity Across India

AdaniConneX

Indian conglomerate Adani is more than doubling its data center development pipeline. The company this week announced plans to invest $100 billion in developing renewable-energy-powered, hyperscale AI-ready data centers by 2035."The world is entering an Intelligence Revolution more profound th...

Muhlenberg, Ohio, Imposes One-year Moratorium on New Data Center Projects

Ohio

The Ohio township of Muhlenberg has introduced a 12-month moratorium on planning applications for new data centers after residents voiced concerns about a digital infrastructure and energy campus being planned nearby.In comments reported by the Circleville Herald, trustee Jeff Wippel said the ...

Anthropic CEO Cautions on Risks of Poorly Timed AI Data Center Investments

United States

The CEO of generative AI firm Anthropic warned that the purchase of escalating data center compute costs could be "ruinous" for the company if timed wrong."I really do believe that we could have models that are a country of geniuses in the data center in one to two years," he said."One questio...

Top Data Center News for 9th-14th February, 2026

Meta Unveils Plans for a 1GW Data Center Campus in Indiana Meta is building a gigawatt-scale data center campus near Indianapolis, Indiana which represents an investment of over $10 billion in data center infrastructure and the surrounding community, one of Meta’s largest infrastructure invest...

ABB Buys Premium Power to Strengthen Data Center Advisory Services

Dublin

Global electrification firm ABB has acquired Irish electrical engineering consultancy Premium Power to expand its advisory capabilities within the data center market.“For more than two decades, Premium Power has built its reputation by helping customers solve complex electrical challenges with...

NeevCloud and Agnikul Cosmos Unveil Plans for Space-based Data Centers

India / Bhārata

India's space tech company Agnikul Cosmos and AI cloud provider NeevCloud are planning to launch data centers in space. The latest of numerous companies to have expressed a desire to bring compute to space, the two have signed an agreement that will see a data center launched in orbit by the e...

Legrand Completes Acquisition of Data Center Power Specialist Kratos Industries

United States

The company this week announced the acquisition of Kratos Industries, a manufacturer of low-voltage (LV) and medium-voltage (MV) power equipment. Terms of the deal were not shared.“Data centers are facing unprecedented pressure to build out digital infrastructure at scale and with extreme reli...

Tract’s Fleet Data Centers Seeks $3.8bn to Fuel Nevada Build-out

Tract

Fleet Data Centers, the data center development arm of Tract, is seeking to raise billions of dollars to build out a campus in Reno, Nevada, for a major tenant.The project has been 100 percent leased to an unnamed “AA- investment grade rated tenant with a market cap in excess of $3 trillion” o...