Data Center News

Fermi America Hit with Class Action Lawsuit

Fermi America

Fermi America, the company behind the proposed up to 11GW data center campus in Amarillo, Texas, has been hit with a class action lawsuit. The suit filed by national plaintiffs' law firm Berger Montague PC was made on behalf of investors who purchased or otherwise acquired Fermi securities dur...

PACE Taps Mace to Construct 168MW UK Data Center Portfolio

United Kingdom

UK construction firm Mace Construct has been tapped by Pathfinder Clean Energy Limited (PACE) to construct a portfolio of data centers with a combined capacity of 168MW. The two companies signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding under which Mace will support the development of three da...

Internet Services Partially Restored in Uganda Following General Election

Some Internet services have been restored in Uganda following the country's general election last week. Internet services were shut down in Uganda ahead of the election by Uganda's Communications Commission "to mitigate the rapid spread of misinformation."He saw off competition from former pop...

Iron Mountain Breaks Ground on 85MW Data Center in Mumbai, India

Colocation firm Iron Mountain has broken ground on its planned 85MW data center campus in Mumbai, India. An opening date for the facility has not been disclosed, but once complete, it will complement Iron Mountain’s two existing facilities in Mumbai, which offer a total of 8.3MW.Writing on Lin...

Applied Digital Starts Work on 430MW Data Center Campus

Applied Digital

Data center firm Applied Digital this week announced that it has broken ground on Delta Forge 1, an AI factory campus located in a “strategic southern US market.” Delta Forge 1 is designed to support an initial 430MW of total utility power, enabling up to 300MW of IT load, with the ability to ...

NextDC Receives Development Approval for M4 campus in Melbourne, Australia

NextDC has received 'Development Approval' from the Victorian Government for its upcoming M4 campus in Melbourne, Australia. NextDC's CEO and MD, Craig Scroggie, revealed the milestone in a post to LinkedIn late last week.The site is planned to host an AI Factory: a liquid-cooled facility engi...

Instapay Technologies selects Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure

Malaysian fintech Instapay Technologies has selected Alibaba Cloud to support its payment platform. Alibaba Cloud has been selected to enable Instapay to scale quickly and reliably, while meeting regulatory requirements. The fintech is regulated by Bank Negara Malaysia.Speaking on the agreemen...

WOM Chile Completes the First Phase of its 5G rollout

WOM Chile has completed the delivery of all 366 mandatory locations named in its 5G rollout. Mandatory Locations are areas defined by the Chilean government as priorities for mobile connectivity and are part of the legal obligations associated with the allocation of 5G spectrum. “This mileston...

Meta Inks Solar PPA with Origis Energy in Texas

Texas

Social media giant Meta has signed a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with US renewable energy developer Origis Energy to offtake power from a solar plant in Texas."We are thrilled to partner with Origis Energy and bring an additional 240 MWac of solar energy to the local grid. With th...

Top Data Center News for 12th-17th January, 2026

United States

Avaio to Develop $6bn Data Center Campus in Little Rock, ArkansasAvaio Digital Partners this week announced plans for a new data center hub near Little Rock in Pulaski County, Arkansas. The aim for the 760-acre site is for a major pole of data center capacity and an engine of sustained economi...

BharathCloud selects JLL as partner for $100m AI cloud expansion plan

India / Bhārata

Indian AI cloud company BharathCloud has teamed up with JLL for its planned expansion across India and "select international locations."  BharathCloud plans to invest the $100m over the next five years, subject to board approvals, with JLL set to help the company select colocation sites and wi...

Soluna Partners with Metrobloks for Texas Campus

HPC and cryptomine data center firm Soluna Holdings this week announced that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Metrobloks, a data center developer and operator focused on AI-ready infrastructure, to enter into a co-development partnership to build Project Kati 2.“Project Kati ...

Google Signs 1.17GW Worth of PPAs with Clearway Across US market

Google

Google has signed a spate of Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) totalling 1.17GW with Clearway Energy Group across Missouri, Texas, and West Virginia. Under the terms of the PPAs, Clearway will supply power to support Google’s data center operations in the Southern Power Pool, ERCOT, and PJM Inte...

Duos Edge Delivers Edge Data Center to School District in Hereford, Texas

Duos Edge AI

Duos Edge has rolled out another Edge data center pod to a school district in Texas. The company, a subsidiary of Duos Technologies, said its latest deployment will serve the Hereford Independent School District (ISD) in the city of Hereford, located 48 miles (77.2km) southwest of Amarillo.Acc...

Vertiv Launches New Prefab Data Center Module

Vertiv

Data center power and cooling provider Vertiv this week announced new configurations of its MegaMod HDX, a prefabricated power and liquid cooling infrastructure solution engineered for high-density computing.“Today’s AI workloads demand cooling solutions that go beyond traditional approaches,"...

Edged secures permission for second data center at Irving campus, Tex

Edged Energy

Data center operator Edged this week announced plans to add a second data center to its Edged Dallas campus in Irving, Dallas County. The news follows Irving City Council voting unanimously to approve the expansion, which will be located on North Wildwood Drive in the industrial area east of H...

Iron Mountain Breaks Ground on 85MW Data Center in Mumbai, India

Colocation firm Iron Mountain has broken ground on its planned 85MW data center campus in Mumbai, India. An opening date for the facility has not been disclosed, but once complete, it will complement Iron Mountain’s two existing facilities in Mumbai, which offer a total of 8.3MW.Writing on Lin...

Keppel secures rights to 720MW data center campus outside Melbourne, Australia

Keppel Data Center REIT

Keppel this week said its Connectivity Division has secured the rights to lease a 123-hectare contiguous site near Morwell, Victoria, with a gross power capacity of up to 720MW, from Australian energy and infrastructure landowner Lightwood Group.Manjot Singh Mann, CEO of Connectivity, Keppel, ...

Tract expands into Illinois with plans for 1GW data center park

Tract

Data center park developer Tract is expanding into Chicago, Illinois. The campus, located off I-80 and Highway 6 in Morris, can reportedly support up to 1GW at full build-out across ~2.9 million sq ft of data center capacity. Initial energization is targeted for June 2028, and a full 1GW load ...

DC Blox Secures $240 Million in Holdco Financing

DC BLOX

US data center operator DC Blox has secured $240 million in holdco financing from BlackRock subsidiary Global Infrastructure Partners. Holdco financing is a financial instrument that allows an investing parent company like GIP to raise debt on behalf of a subsidiary like DC Blox. “We are excit...