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August 01, 2026
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Italy
Infranity is spearheading a €375 million ($430M) financing package for the data center division of Italian telecom provider Retelit Group. The European asset management firm has committed €175 million ($200M) of the total, according to news agency Agenzia Nova.The investment is intended to exp...
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Blue
Blue Origin, the aerospace company backed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has filed for approval to support data centers in space. According to its FCC application, Project Sunrise could include up to 51,600 satellites in sun-synchronous orbit.The data centers will use optical links to support c...
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Norway
Battery and solar panel maker T1 Energy has obtained 50MW of capacity for a Norwegian site originally intended for battery cell production, now planned as a data center. The company announced this week that Norway’s national grid operator, Statnett, has allocated 50MW of power to T1 Energy’s ...
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Duos Edge AI
Edge data center firm Duos has installed an additional containerized module in Amarillo, Texas. The unit its second in the city uses land owned by Potter County and sits next to the largest colocation facility in the Texas Panhandle.The company didn’t share details, but Data Center Map lists a...
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Terawulf
Cryptomining company turned data center developer TeraWulf has topped out its newest facility in New York.“Today we topped out CB4, marking the final structural beam placed - all thanks to the crews who brought this build to life,” the company announced on LinkedIn this week. “What stands abov...
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South Korea
Shinsegae Group and Reflection AI plan to build a 250MW data center in South Korea, set to be the country’s largest sovereign AI facility.The two companies signed an MoU in San Francisco this week, attended by US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnic, outlining their intention to form a joint ventu...
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EdgeConneX
EdgeConneX has begun construction on a new data center outside Osaka, Japan. The company announced this week that it is developing its first 200MW, AI-ready campus in Greater Osaka in partnership with Kagoya Asset Management.The Kyotanabe campus will cover 130,000 sqm (1.4 million sq ft), with...
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Ohio
Ohio state senator Bernie Moreno has urged the backers of a $136m data center to forgo tax subsidies tied to its planned expansion. In a public letter on Monday, he argued that the economic benefits of expanding the Ark Data Centers campus do not justify the subsidies.The expansion would creat...
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Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has pledged to stop requiring local governments to sign nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) for its data center projects.In a blog post, the company said this commitment builds on its “Community-First AI Infrastructure Plan,” which promises to prevent data centers from raising electricit...
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Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain is targeting a new data center development outside Austin, Texas. First reported by BizJournal, the company is targeting a campus outside the city of Hutto in Williamson County.The Hutto City Council last week reviewed a presentation from Iron Mountain on its Taylor Meadows data ...
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OpenAI
OpenAI has reorganized its leadership as it shifts toward leasing more AI capacity from cloud providers. The company is still pursuing its global Stargate data center buildout with Oracle and SoftBank, but recent reports suggest it may scale back expansion plans in favor of rented infrastructu...
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Georgia
Local authorities have approved the 200-acre ‘Project Azalea’ data center in McDuffie County, Georgia. Commissioners backed the project in a 4–1 vote; officials estimate it will be worth $1 billion and generate about $25 million in annual local tax revenue. The project will include six data ce...
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ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)
ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has broken ground on a new campus in Mumbai, India. STT GDC India this week announced construction has begun on the first facility at its Palava campus.Spanning 46 acres, the campus is planned to scale to 400MW of IT load, with an initial phase delive...
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Renewable energy company Sunly has applied for planning permission to develop a 180MW AI data center near the village of Risti in Lääne-Nigula municipality, Estonia. If approved, the facility would become the country’s largest single electricity consumer and the biggest data center of its kind...
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Germany / Deutschland
Stadtwerke Lübeck has launched its first self-operated data center in the northern German city of Lübeck. Built to strengthen the city’s digital sovereignty, the facility will support business-critical and sensitive applications for local companies and features multiple layers of redundancy.Wh...
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Oslo
Another data center may be on the way in Norway. Østfold Energi is preparing sites in Sarpsborg and Våler in partnership with local municipalities, with Google likely to take the Våler location.“We have extensive experience with project development in collaboration with landowners, local commu...
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Mississippi
A 648-acre data center has been proposed in Clarksdale, northern Mississippi. On Monday, city officials held an informational meeting on a potential project planned for agricultural land between the Sunflower River and Tallahatchie Street.The city’s board of commissioners had considered a rezo...
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Edge Centres
Australian data center company WinDC is partnering with US edge data center firm Armada to deploy containerized compute across the country. This week, the two companies announced a partnership to roll out a network of portable, renewable-powered “AI factories” across Australia.WinDC aims to pl...
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United States
Microsoft and Meta Commit to $50bn in New Data Center Leases in Latest QuarterMicrosoft and Meta have each committed around $50 billion to additional data center leases in the latest quarter, thee new deals pushing total future data center lease commitments by cloud companies and hyperscalers ...
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Switch
Data center operator Switch has integrated Nvidia’s Omniverse DSX Blueprint into its EVO AI Factory architecture and LDC EVO operating system. The company introduced EVO last year, describing it as a new data center design capable of supporting up to 2MW per rack.LDC EVO is Switch's answer to ...
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